Description

DALI PHANTOM S-180

If you want to experience real high-end sound quality in your living room or home cinema and don't have room for full-blown floor-standing loudspeakers, the PHANTOM S-180 is the right choice. This extremely high-quality built-in wall loudspeaker is in no way inferior to conventional boxes in terms of sound quality and technical equipment.

The cone driver of the S-180, specially developed for the high-end PHANTOM S built-in loudspeaker series and designed for the reproduction of the midrange and bass range, has a 200 mm wood fiber cone and a particularly low-loss moving surround. The innovative magnetic drive with SMC pole pieces borrowed from the EPICON series ensures a particularly impulsive and dynamic sound pattern.

Thanks to the hybrid tweeter that can be rotated by 90 degrees, which, like all other DALI speakers in the high-end segment, combines a fabric dome and a ribbon tweeter, the PHANTOM S-180 can be used vertically or horizontally and universally as a stereo, center and surround speaker .

And to ensure a powerful and deep bass reproduction, a controlled resonating, 250 mm large passive membrane is used in addition to the bass-midrange driver controlled by the amplifier.

CASE & PLACEMENT

The PHANTOM S-180 has a very flat housing that can be easily integrated into most standard walls without structural changes. The development of this housing was a challenge in several respects. With the planned installation depth of only 103 mm, the perfect housing volume for the bass-midrange drivers had to be found based on the dimensions of the loudspeakers.

The baffles feature an aluminum frame that inserts into the panel cutouts, providing an elegant, nearly flush transition between the speakers and the wall.

The flat covers are fixed with invisible magnets, allowing the speakers to be discreetly integrated into any living environment.

The rear housing chamber has a stable MDF frame to which the mounting brackets and connection terminals are attached. The back of the case also consists of an MDF board, which is also covered with a high-quality vinyl film. The loudspeaker chassis are mounted in a black painted MDF baffle.

The PHANTOM S-180 should be integrated into the wall in such a way that its ribbon tweeter is at ear height of the seated listeners. To make this easier to do, we have rotated the hybrid tweeter module 180 degrees and installed it upside down in this model. This allows the loudspeakers to be mounted perfectly at the same height as the TV screen instead of below the TV monitor.

Another reason why we have integrated the hybrid tweeter the other way around in this model is to place the tweeter as close as possible to the mid-bass driver. This ensures an optimal transition from the midrange to the lowest frequencies reproduced by the dome. The distance between the two chassis is chosen so that the frequencies they radiate add up optimally and match the level specified by the crossover.

Even if the PHANTOM S-180 is installed horizontally to play the center channel, the tweeter ribbon should be at ear level and above the dome. This ensures the extremely wide-angle radiation of all very high frequencies, which is typical for the ribbon. In the vertical plane, in which the radiation angle of the ribbon is inherently limited, the tweeter dome placed below the ribbon has excellent radiation characteristics.

SMC

The powdery magnetic material SMC (Soft Magnetic Compound) uniquely combines high magnetic conductivity with very low electrical conductivity, which significantly reduces disruptive hysteresis effects and eddy currents around the pole piece. At the same time, the desired properties of a good magnet system are fully retained.

The SMC pole piece surrounded by aluminum rings and the 38 mm four-layer voice coil ensure optimally controlled cone movements, very low distortion and high power handling. The low-loss surround, the structure of the cone membrane and the comparatively small and outwardly curved dust protection cap are designed for perfect midrange reproduction.

With this effort, a large bandwidth in the playback frequency response, a well-controlled bass playback and a coloration-free, natural midrange playback could be achieved.

TWEETER

DALI's hybrid tweeter module, which has been tried and tested for many years, combines a fabric dome with a ribbon tweeter and in this way delivers a transparent, detailed and spatial high-frequency reproduction like no other tweeter technology.

Both the dome and the ribbon work completely linearly in their transmission ranges, i.e. without annoying resonances or level peaks. The hybrid tweeter module offers an extremely even and wide horizontal radiation - one of the typical DALI sound characteristics. Even the mounting plate for the tweeter module has been optimized with regard to optimal horizontal radiation.

A particularly low resonant frequency, high resilience and exceptional reserves for high sound pressure and extreme excursions are the properties of our dome tweeter.

The DALI ribbon is a real master in the horizontal radiation of high frequencies and an ideal partner for the tweeter dome, which starts above 2 kHz.

LOW-MIDDLE RANGE

The new 200 mm bass-midrange driver was specially developed for the three models in the PHANTOM S series. In the interests of the most precise and at the same time low-distortion playback, the SMC-based magnet system of the EPICON 8 is used as the basis for this chassis.

Compared to a traditional 165 mm chassis, this offers 70% more cone surface and is therefore able to set significantly more air in motion and also reproduce very low frequencies powerfully. In addition, it offers a detailed and balanced midrange reproduction.

In order to enable the best possible bass reproduction with the PHANTOM S-180, we use a 250 mm passive radiator, which is based on the passive membrane of our high-end subwoofer SUB P-10 DSS.

With the same aluminum basket, the soft surround and the carbon fiber cone, which is praised for its excellent properties, the passive radiator of the PHANTOM S-180 helps to achieve a deep and powerful bass reproduction that is otherwise only accustomed to from large-volume conventional loudspeaker boxes.

WIDE RADIATION

Since our loudspeakers are designed for wide dispersion, it is very easy to integrate them into any room in such a way that a balanced and harmonious reproduction of music, films and speech is possible over a large area.

The PHANTOM S series, whose loudspeakers are always mounted flush with the walls, also benefits from this philosophy and technology. Thanks to their wide radiation angle, the ideal listening position is not limited to one or a few seats in the so-called "sweet spot" centrally opposite the loudspeakers, the stereo impression is created almost throughout the room. Regardless of whether the audio signal reaches you directly or as a reflection from the various surfaces in the room, consistently high-quality audio reproduction is always guaranteed.

The even distribution of the sound throughout the room creates a homogeneous, tonally balanced, spatial and detailed sound impression at every point.

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