Your DALI IO-12 headphones incorporate multiple
technologies and engineering solutions designed to
perfect their audio performance and ensure that their
sound quality is among the best available.
SMC Drivers
DALI is acknowledged worldwide as a pioneer in the
use of non-conducting magnetic materials, such as our
unique Soft Magnetic Compound (SMC), in speaker
drivers. Our DALI KORE flagship audiophile speaker,
for example, owes its genre-defining performance
partly to SMC. And now, with the IO-12, the same
patented SMC technology has been incorporated in a
pair of headphones for the first time.
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Despite their difference in size, headphone and speaker
drivers share a very similar architecture. As is the case
with DALI SMC speaker drivers, DALI SMC headphone
driver components that would normally be made from
iron based materials are manufactured in SMC. While it is
intensely conductive to magnetic fields, SMC is electrically
non-conducting, so its use ensures that distortion causing
eddy currents set up by voice-coil movement in conductive
motor components are prevented. SMC also minimises
voice-coil inductance modulation, again significantly
reducing distortion. SMC in the DALI IO-12 results in a
significant increase in clarity and musical communication.
SMC defines a ground-breaking advance in headphone
audio quality, and it is unique to DALI.
The top plate, bottom
plate and pole piece of the
magnet system is made
entirely from SMC.
Along with the neodymium
magnet disc, this means
that the IO-12 is our very
first driver to not use any
iron in the magnet system.
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