Dali Opticon 1 Loudspeakers

DALI Opticon 1 Bookshelf Loudspeakers

Opticon 1 is the smallest speaker in the Opticon range, which is designed to be placed close to a wall or even wall mounted. Featuring a 4 ¾ inch wood fibre driver and a 26mm lightweight wide-dispersion tweeter, the Opticon 1 provides impressively rich & deep bass, with a well balanced & exciting sound perfect for any office, bedroom or living space setup.

Key Features

- Powerful Low-Loss 4 ¾ Inch Wood Fibre Driver

- Wide-Dispersion Lightweight Soft Dome Tweeter

- Three High-Quality Vinyl Finishes

- Unique SMC Based Driver Motor System

- Easy To Integrate Into Any Room

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The Opticon 1 produces surprisingly deep and impactful bass from such a compact design, taking design influences from DALI’s award-winning Menuet speaker to provide sound which far exceeds expectations. This is as the bass reflex port has been tuned to minimise distortion and to control the timing coherence between the two drivers, allowing for the room filling sound.

What is DALI’s Opticon Series?

Opticon is DALI’s midrange series, bringing the materials and technologies used in their high-end Rubicon & Epicon series to a much more accessible price point, without losing the signature DALI sound. All Opticon speakers feature DALI’s powerful & accurate made in house wood fibre drivers, coupled with their wide dispersion tweeters, some of which are reinforced by a ribbon tweeter, adding further detail and depth to the top end. 

Their low loss wood fibre drivers are, like every DALI driver, incredibly easy to drive, producing accurate & true to life sound with ease. These drivers are coated in DALI’s distinctively coloured wood fibre, which lowers surface resonance and increases rigidity. The cones are then surrounded by a very soft and flexible rubber, which allows the driver to move freely with no dampening, loss or interference.

Like their Rubicon and Epicon speakers, the woofer motors in Opticon speakers feature a pole piece constructed entirely of DALI’s patented SMC material. This Soft Magnetic Compound, is a coated magnetic granule material which can be easily shaped and moulded. The benefits of using SMC, instead of the traditional iron magnets found in conventional speakers, is a significant reduction in distortion and a much more transparent & lifelike sound.

Opticon LCR, Vokal,5, 6 & 8 feature DALI’s hybrid tweeter module, a combination of soft dome & ribbon tweeter for a wide dispersion of clear high frequencies which outperform any other tweeter technology at this price point. The soft dome tweeter provides high power handling and headroom for high sound pressure levels, while the ribbon tweeter provides wide dispersion and a fast, open top end which reaches frequencies far beyond the audible range, affecting lower harmonics and improving the cohesiveness of the sound.

All Opticon speakers are assembled in Denmark, where the MDF cabinets are cut & built, the vinyl is applied and the drivers are placed and tested by hand.

Who are DALI?

DALI (Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries) is, as the name suggests, a Danish company who specialises in designing, engineering & building world-class loudspeakers. All DALI speakers feature variations of their lightweight wood fibre driver design, allowing their speakers to be easily driven and create musical, smooth & accurate sound at any volume level. 

The company was founded in 1983 by Peter Lyngdorf and has since expanded from the confines of Denmark and can now be seen and heard all around the world creating DALI’s signature engaging, true to life sound which adheres to the company's slogan ‘In admiration of music’. Today, DALI offers an exciting range of speakers to suit every taste from the cost-conscious Spektor series to the high-performance Rubicon series.