DALI Spektor 2 Bookshelf speakers
Externally, DALI Spektor 2 does not give any reason to be suspicious of cheapness. Rounds of the sidewalls to the front panel mask the fact that the walls of the case are only decorated with simple vinyl film, but not made of solid wood. The front panel is completely made as if of leather.
The tweeter in its ribbed and wide-open horn looks like a very expensive driver with a translucent textile dome, under which even a sound-absorbing felt pad is seen. The mid-woofer's diffuser is pressed from the same finely divided wood fibers, from which Scandinavian manufacturers make the most advanced drivers. As is well known, such a material with a "chaotic" structure has almost no internal resonances.
DALI does not devote into the technical details of its products. It is modestly said about the tweeter that its 25-millimeter dome is twice lighter than an average driver of the similar design. And the mention of the fact that all drivers are designed in such a way that they do not require frequency correction and therefore there are no "signal losses" in crossovers directly indicate the simplest schemes of the first and second order. Only exact values of the frequency of band separation (2600 Hz) and the settings of the rare bass-reflex (51.5 Hz) are given. It is, by the way, simple as a pipe without any sockets and notches.
The first sounds of DALI Spektor 2 are both surprising and ominous at the same time. You subconsciously expect sluggish compressed dynamics from two-way loudspeakers with a declared sensitivity of less than 85 dB, but their handwriting is surprisingly light and free. The upper case is transmitted with dry aggressive shades, but the piercing intelligibility of all the sounds of metal components prevents to blame it for the dirty colored sound.
At high volume, when the mid-woofer moves closer to the limit, characteristic overtones begin to come from the ports, but from the listening point you can't even suspect about the bass-reflex design of monitors. The upper bass is slightly prone to humming, but the main low-frequency band is perfectly worked out, it pleases with its density and texture. The "creaky" and sometimes even disharmonious transmission of copper and strings a little bet strains, but there is nothing like this in the voice register - the loudspeakers richly and pedantically reproduce every harmonic and all the micro-dynamic nuances.
I think that such an extravagant interweaving of flaws and significant advantages in sounding will confuse many who consider themselves an expert in acoustics.
