Dali Epicon 8 3 1/2 Way Floor Standing Speaker

PureHT: Seeing this speaker earlier this year at the IS Europe convention, I have to say, IT LOOKED STUNNING! Few speaker in aesthetics impressed me like this one, be sure to demo it.

The Epicon 8


The absolute pinnacle of the EPICON series, the EPICON 8 delivers dramatically rich and detailed sound that will blow your mind and captivate your senses. The floor standing loudspeaker is the result of a passionate, tireless quest to reach perfection.

Prepare yourself for musical indulgence like never before – and for a beautifully statuesque design your guests will envy.

Drivers

In the EPICON 8, two 8” woofers are complemented by a 6 ½“ mid-range driver to peel away the layers of a recording and delicately separate vocals and instruments. The groundbreaking Linear Drive Magnet System of the woofers is complemented by our hybrid ribbon/soft dome tweeter module. This all translates into the largest, most room-filling sound of the EPICON family. Effectively this is a ‘3 + ½-way’ construction.

Multi-layered cabinets

Each side of the floor standing EPICON 8 is constructed from 6 individual layers of MDF, all glued together. In the EPICON 8 these are anchored to a 63 mm multi-layer MDF backbone of the cabinet, which is 10 mm thicker than the backbone of the EPICON 2 and EPICON 6 to maintain control. CNC milling process is applied for making the recess and holes for the bass ports and terminals in the backbone.

With a thickness of 33 mm the duallayer front baffle ensures that energy from the drivers is radiated as acoustic energy, and not as vibrations in the cabinet. The curved shape of the front baffle is also a contributing factor in ensuring a stable acoustic platform.

Internally the cabinet for the EPICON 8 is divided in two identical sized chambers for the woofers and one extra chamber for the midrange. The woofer chambers are allowing tuning of the cabinet to be done identically yet completely independently for each of the two woofers. The midrange chamber allows the driver to reproduce the critical frequencies related to e.g. human voices without any interference from the rest of the system.

Thus you will find two bass ports on the back of the cabinet located as nearby the woofers as possible. Both ports are convex tapered in both ends to minimize port turbulence. At the very bottom of the cabinet, however, you will see that the hardwired crossover is mounted in its own enclosure as well - free from the dynamic variation of cabinet pressure inside the bass reflex enclosures.

These partitions as well as the internal bracing have been very carefully positioned within the floor standing EPICON 8. Following DALI’s philosophy of optimizing the timing in all aspects, a free airflow is crucial to the sound experience.

Awards

"Its sound is equally impressive, at once bold and intimate, its broad soundstage peppered with musical detail, filling the largest of rooms with ease."

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Specification

Model	Dali Epicon 8
Discription	3 1/2 Way
Built From	2012
Power Handling	500 watts
Recommended amplifier power	50-500 watts
Frequency range	28 Hz
Frequency response	35Hz - 30kHz +/-6 dB
Sensitivity	89 dB spl(2.83V, 1m)
Nominal impedance	4ohms (3.2 Ohms min.)
Tweeter	One 1x10x55mm Ribbon Tweeter
	One 29mm Soft Dome Tweeter
Midrange Driver	One  x 6.5inch Wood Fibre Cone
Midbase Driver	n/a
BASS Driver	Two 8" Wood Fibre Cone
LOW to MID-FREQUENCY CROSSOVER	550 Hz
MID to HIGH FREQ CROSSOVER	3.1kHz
	15kHz
External Dimensions excl Stand (H x W x D)	1262x353x497mm
Terminal Input	4 Terminal Bi Amp
Weight	47.5kg
Configuration Options (Stereo and.or HT)	Stereo mainly
FINISHES	Black High Gloss Lacquer
	Walnut High Gloss Lacquer
	Ruby Macassar High Gloss Lacquer