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Dali Oberon 5 5.1 £1699

The Dali Oberon 5 5.1 surround-sound speaker package is certainly a special product. It nicely plugs the gap between the £1500 and £2000 price brackets, comfortably beating every rival around it for clarity, detail and expression.

It comprises the three-time Award-winning Oberon 5 floorstanding speakers as right and left channels, sandwiching an Oberon Vokal centre, and a pair of Oberon 1 standmounters delivering surround effects. Providing the low end is a 170W Sub E9-F.

The Oberon 5s have a fairly large and lightweight 29mm soft-dome tweeter, which can dip into lower frequencies to help integrate with the two 13cm mid/bass drivers, made from Dali’s wood fibre/fine grain paper pulp cone material.

It’s a similar story for the Oberon 1 surround speakers, though there’s just one mid/bass driver here. Dali has made them as versatile as possible by adding a wall-mounting

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