DALI was founded in 1983. It was founded by Peter Lyngdorf, who previously created the Lyngdorf Audio and Steinway Lyngdorf brands, and also owns the Scandinavian chain of audio stores HiFi Klubben.
Thanks to the use of the latest equipment, modern technologies and the highest qualifications of specialists, DALI speaker systems are characterized by an extremely low percentage of manufacturing defects.
DALI is a company driven by a true passion for music and its precise reproduction. The development and improvement of new technologies to enhance the realism of sound is its main goal in its quest to create the best acoustics in the world. Dali's philosophy is concentrated in six principles that allow the company to produce speakers of exceptional quality:
- Three-dimensional sound;
- Stabilization of the loads of audio signal amplification paths: channel coordination allows for the most reliable transmission of overtones;
- Careful engineering adjustment of the coordination of wave parameters of sound. Precise focusing of the acoustic flow, reference synchronization of the speakers is the key to obtaining a homogeneous, soft, powerful Dali sound;
- An audio signal that is equal in amplitude and organically coordinated between frequency channels;
- Mathematically correct calculation of the geometry of the joints, effective damping of reflected waves, guaranteed suppression of multi-frequency vibrations help to avoid resonances and parasitic rattling of the components of the sound device;
- Fine and precise handmade work by highly skilled production craftsmen.
A key factor contributing to DALI's superiority is its exclusive speakers, designed from the ground up by the company's engineers and produced in its manufacturing facilities. The use of its own unique technologies allows the company to develop and create acoustic systems that provide the opportunity to listen to music in the form in which the performers intended it. It is a great pleasure for the company's employees to be able to breathe life into recorded music with respect for the performers and listeners.
However, creating that great authentic DALI sound requires much more than a passion for music. The company's recipe is constant research in the field of acoustics, development of new technologies, employee development, and monitoring customer feedback. A dedication to high quality and faithful reproduction runs through all DALI loudspeaker systems.
DALI's focus is on developing new technologies to create devices that suit a wide range of listeners. The same point is of great importance when testing equipment: for example, DALI has a graph showing, on a large sample (7,500 songs from 1963 to 2011), how and when dynamic range compression was handled on average.
DALI today
There are now more than a dozen lines of DALI acoustics available on the market: active, passive, budget, top-end, built-in and wireless. Older models, as before, are produced in a Danish factory (these are the Opticon, Callisto, Epicon series, floor-standing Oberon One). Junior series, as well as components, are produced at the brand’s own factory in China.
The Danish factory has grown and occupies 220,000 sq.m., while the Chinese one has an area of 5,500 sq.m. The company produced 250,000 speakers in 2018, most of which came out of the Chinese factory doors. The Danish accounted for 40,000 copies. The company employs more than 250 people worldwide, of which 100 are employed in Denmark.
