Dali Sonik 5 – Floorstanding Tower Speaker

DALI SONIK 5 – Compact Floorstanding Speaker

With SONIK 5, you enjoy high-end sound without sacrificing space. Its slim, elegant design fits seamlessly into your home while packing powerful technology: dual 5¼-inch SMC™ and Clarity Cone™ woofers plus a wide-bandwidth 29mm tweeter. The result - deep bass, clear mids, and airy highs that make your music, movies, and entertainment unforgettable.

• 29mm ultra-lightweight soft dome tweeter
• Dual 5.25" Clarity Cone wood fibre woofers with SMC
• Slim floorstanding design
• Rear ported bass reflex cabinet
• Aluminium spike outriggers included
• Hand-assembled and tested
• 5 Year Warranty

Highlights & Key Technologies

Compact Floorstander, Rich Sound
SONIK 5 proves you don't need size for impact. Its slim, elegant cabinet houses advanced woofers and a wide-bandwidth tweeter to deliver rich, detailed sound. Designed for small to medium rooms, it offers big-speaker performance in a space-saving form, giving you high-end audio without overwhelming your living space. The SONIK 5 brings high-performance sound to your space without dominating it. With its slim profile and modern, understated design, it fits effortlessly into small and medium-sized rooms. You enjoy rich, detailed audio that elevates both music and movies, whether in a stereo setup or compact home theatre - delivering immersive experiences while complementing your style. SONIK 5 is designed to fit your life. Its slim, modern look complements any room, from minimalist to classic interiors. Available in four premium finishes, it adds understated elegance without taking over your space.

Wide Dispersion Soft Dome Tweeter with Aluminium Faceplate
The new ultra-light soft dome tweeter has been developed in-house specifically for the SONIK series. It uses a newly designed aluminium faceplate and a 29 mm membrane constructed from an ultra-lightweight weave fabric, optimised for low-loss of energy, low distortion and Wide Dispersion. Compared to most soft dome tweeters in the market, the DALI dome material is less than half the weight at 0.060 mg per mm² which makes it very easy to drive, even at very low listening levels. This makes it incredibly agile, displaying low level details and effortless accuracy at all listening levels. The DALI SONIK ultra-lightweight soft dome tweeter is additionally optimised for a larger bandwidth in its lower frequency area. This ensures the optimal handover from the midrange to the tweeter, creating a well-balanced, unforced and very coherent upper midrange.

Low-Loss Bass and Midrange Woofers
At DALI, we strongly believe in reproducing the recorded signal. No more, no less. Like all DALI drivers dedicated to reproducing the delicate midrange and bass frequency band, the SONIK woofer features a wood fibre diaphragm. This blend of a fine grain paper pulp, reinforced with wood fibres, creates a stiff, lightweight and well-behaved structure. In combination with a low-loss rubber surround and suspension, the diaphragm reproduces micro details in the signal – unfiltered and with great accuracy. Despite its compact form, SONIK 5 delivers bass you can feel. Twin 5¼ inch Clarity Cone™ woofers, powered by the SMC™ magnet system, provide punchy, controlled low-end that enhances every soundtrack. From driving rhythms to cinematic effects, SONIK 5 gives you bass with depth and energy, perfectly matched to your room.

Clarity Cone Technology - Paper and Wood Fibre Cones
Inspired by the DALI KORE midrange driver and used in our EPIKORE and RUBIKORE, the new Clarity Cone™ Technology paper and wood fibre structure of the SONIK range drivers result in a lightweight yet rigid diaphragm with enhanced resonance suppression for consistent and controlled cone motion. Clarity is one of the DALI Sound Design Principles and describes the loudspeaker drivers' ability to blend seamlessly with each other, for the most coherent and natural handover from driver to driver. The Clarity Cone™ structure helps the midrange get a smoother and more uncoloured handover in the upper midrange, making the transition to the tweeter sound more natural and realistic.

SMC Essential Magnet System
The magnet systems in all SONIK models are benefitting from our patented SMC™ magnet material. The magnet system comprises a large ferrite ring magnet that surrounds a pole piece made from a unique combination of iron and SMC™. Using iron for just the base of the pole piece with a 10 mm SMC™ disc on top means the iron's negative effects are minimised. The SMC™ disc is placed right in the middle of the voice coil working region to ensure its maximum effect and results in a greatly improved flux linearity. The use of the SMC™ disk also greatly reduces distortion caused by hysteresis and eddy currents. These combined improvements in the magnet motor system enable the SONIK series to offer benchmark low distortion figures for the price range, and will leave the listener with a relaxed, detailed and entertaining midrange performance. The SMC disk on top of the iron pole piece helps to dramatically lower 3rd order harmonic distortion compared to a similar DALI woofer model based on a pure iron pole piece.

Dual Flare Bass Reflex Port
The bass port is placed on the rear, optimising room integration by utilising the wall for improved bass performance. The bass port is a Dual Flare design, inspired by those used in the DALI EPICON speakers, convex-tapered in both ends to minimise port turbulence and enables laminar airflow at higher volume levels, reducing compression and distortion while reinforcing low-frequency performance to significantly higher volume levels than single or non-flared ports.

Low Resonance Cabinet
Constructed from CNC-machined MDF board and dressed in carefully selected high-grade laminates, the cabinet forms the solid base for the speaker. The floorstanding cabinet employs a highly rigid construction, with solid bracing across the inside of the cabinet for reinforcement. This contributes to the stiffness and practically eliminates panel resonance. To optimise timing, the speakers are fitted with acoustic damping material internally along the sides, top and bottom - but not on the rear side of the front baffle. This creates a more direct contact between woofer and bass port. The audible result is a more precise bass and increased 'attack' in the midrange.

Aluminium Spike Outriggers
Inspired by our EPIKORE high-end speakers, the SONIK 5 features adjustable aluminium outrigger feet. These allow you to mount and adjust the included spikes or the hemispherical rubber feet to the outriggers and give the SONIK floorstanding cabinet a solid foundation for it to perform optimally on any type of floor.

Wide Dispersion Sound Design
DALI makes it easy to integrate loudspeakers into any room. Both the driver materials and geometry incorporated in the SONIK series have been selected to generate a wide dispersion pattern in the listening space. Furthermore, the same principles are applied in the design of the crossover. Listeners will experience a well-integrated sound, even when seated at a significant off axis angle. This is important as listeners are rarely seated directly in front of loudspeaker when listening to music. An added benefit is significantly reduced harmonic distortion and diffraction as these effects are always stronger in the on-axis response. It's for these reasons that DALI speakers are designed not to be angled inwards.

In-House Developed Terminals
The speaker terminals on DALI SONIK are developed and designed in-house and are not only stunning-looking terminals but will also offer a good and solid connection whether you are using bare wire leads, banana plugs or spades.

Details & Specifications

MODEL INFORMATION
Model: SONIK 5
Series: SONIK
Warranty: 60-month warranty
Available Finishes: Black Ash, White, Walnut, Natural Oak
Country of Origin: China (designed in Denmark)

ACOUSTIC DESIGN
Crossover Principle: 2-way
Crossover Frequency: 2,200 Hz
Enclosure Type: Bass reflex (rear-ported with Dual Flare port)
Bass Reflex Tuning Frequency: 43 Hz

DRIVERS
High Frequency Driver: 1x 29mm low-loss soft dome tweeter
High Frequency Diaphragm: Soft woven fabric (ultra-lightweight 0.060 mg/mm²)
Tweeter Faceplate: Aluminium
Low/Mid Frequency Drivers: 2x 5.25" woofers
Woofer Diaphragm: Clarity Cone™ paper and wood fibre blend
Woofer Surround: Low-loss rubber
Magnet System: Large ferrite ring magnet with iron and SMC™ hybrid pole piece

SMC TECHNOLOGY
Material: Soft Magnetic Composite (SMC™)
Configuration: 10mm SMC™ disc on iron pole piece base
Placement: Center of voice coil working region

PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS
Frequency Range (±3 dB): 39 - 26,000 Hz
Sensitivity (2.83V/1m): 88 dB
Nominal Impedance: 6 ohms
Maximum SPL (@ 1m): 108 dB
Recommended Amplifier Power: 30 - 150 watts

CONNECTIONS
Connection Inputs: Single wire
Terminal Type: DALI in-house developed terminals
Compatible Connectors: Bare wire, banana plugs, spades

CABINET CONSTRUCTION
Cabinet Material: CNC-machined MDF with high-grade laminate finishes
Internal Bracing: Solid bracing for rigidity and resonance elimination
Internal Damping: Acoustic damping material on sides, top, and bottom (not rear baffle)
Grille Type: Magnetic front grille
Grille Fabric: Furniture grade

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Dimensions (H x W x D): 826 x 162 x 270 mm / 32.5 x 6.3 x 10.6 inches
Weight (including grille): 10.8 kg / 23.80 lb per speaker
Shipping Weight: 26.6 kg / 58.64 lb (pair)
Recommended Placement: Floor
Recommended Distance from Rear Wall: 15 - 100 cm / 6 - 39 inches

MOUNTING & FEET
Spike Outriggers: Adjustable aluminium outriggers included
Spikes: Black chrome-plated floor spikes with lock nuts included
Rubber Feet: Hemispherical rubber feet included (alternative to spikes)
Tools: Toolkit included for spike installation

MANUFACTURING & QUALITY
Design: Denmark
Manufacturing: DALI factory in Ningbo, China
Assembly: Hand-assembled by skilled technicians
Quality Control: Tested and signed by technician

INCLUDED ACCESSORIES
SONIK 5 speakers (matched pair)
Front grilles (magnetic)
Rubber pads
Spikes with lock nuts
Hemispherical rubber feet
Spike outriggers with screws
Toolkit
Document pack
Manual