DALIOberon Vokal Centre Channel Speaker - Dark Walnut

Some centers can sound unnatural where you're aware of this speaker smack dab in the middle, but the Oberon Vokal often disappears. Very natural and fluid as part of my system. I do wish i got the larger version, but this little guy really packs a punch.

I recently changed out my home theater speakers from my previous in-wall Axiom Audio M-3's to the Dali Oberon on-wall speakers. The sound improvement was dramatic! The Axiom's were good speakers but the Dali's are a great speaker! I was shocked that such a slim cabinet mounted on the wall would produce such alive, open sound! At this point I still was using an Axiom Audio on-wall center channel speaker but now I was curious to know if switching that out to the Dali Vokl center channel would make a noticeable improvement. I found the Dali Vokl center channel on Amazon, and although it was considerably more expensive than my Axiom center channel I pulled the trigger. Glad I did, the Dali made a huge improvement in the sound quality, both in clarity of dialog in movies and with music! I tend to listen to a lot of background music through my home theater system when I'm working in our living room. Listening to well recorded music through the Dali's was where I noticed the biggest improvement over my original speakers, the Danes know how to build speakers, highly recommended!

I replaced a B&W 600 series center speaker with the Dali Oberon Vokal because I was having trouble understanding speech in the midst of background sounds, say during a battle in a movie. I find speech coming through the Oberon Vokal is much clearer and easy to understand. The Vokal is a more expensive speaker than the B&W it replaced, but if it's in your price range it's worth every penny. I highly recommend it.

I have this set up with some Oberon 7 towers. Love the Oberon 7's but the Oberon Vokal is lacking in comparison. It's a perfectly decent center, but is not a good value considering one Vokal costs almost 80% of the price of one Oberon 7. I have a Klipsch center in a separate Klipsch-based system that is larger and was 50 dollars less than this Dali and the Klipsch is more intelligible and simply sounds better.