DALI Phantom H-120 In-Wall Speaker

The PHANTOM H-120 has an unprecedented 12” woofer to deliver deep and powerful bass. The H-120 is perfect for installations where normal floor-standing speakers or an external subwoofer cannot be used, or when deep, room filling bass is essential.

The totally unique PHANTOM H-120 in-wall loudspeaker brings the best, and then some, from a traditional big floor standing loudspeaker, but is mounted in your wall. With an unprecedented 12” woofer to deliver deep and powerful bass, and a separate 5” woofer to handle the important mid-range area, this 3-way speaker delivers like no other in-wall loudspeaker in the world. Perfect for installations where normal floor-standing speakers or an external subwoofer cannot be used, or when deep, room filling bass is essential. 

The Phantom H Series

The DALI PHANTOM H-120 is an in-wall speaker build around traditional loudspeaker technologies. At its centre is the recognizable DALI woofer cone made from a mix of paper pulp and wood fibre. This gives the cone a light, well behaved, but random structure that helps reproduce even the smallest details in the music.

The powerful low-loss magnet system deliver precision and timing to the low frequencies and the ultra lightweight soft dome tweeter adds great resolution to the high frequencies. Together they blend into a very coherent, highly detailed, clear and natural soundstage. The PHANTOM H-120 is a true full range speaker and needs no supplement subwoofer - it is all about true hi-fi sound, versatility, and flexibility. 

DESIGN

Bringing the virtues of a traditional box speaker to the install segment, the DALI PHANTOM H-120 is able to combine compact design with quality performance. The drivers are securely mounted in the ridged front baffle with the tweeter placed close to the woofer for optimum integration. The H-120 front baffle is constructed from solid MDF which offers the drivers a solid base to work within. This ridged baffle material keeps the drivers in place, removing unwanted vibrations and ensuring optimum integration with the wall or ceiling.

The PHANTOM H-120 introduces improvements to the basic design of the front baffle by adding extra thickness to the outer edges for a tighter and more secure fit against the mounting area. This also helps the overall strength and rigidity of the speaker.

CROSSOVER

Every component in the crossover is carefully selected for their audiophile quality and the crossover is designed especially for the PHANTOM H-120 model. All PHANTOM H series models include PTC (Polymeric Positive Temperature Coefficient device) safety function. This safeguards the driver components from overheating if played at very loud volumes over a long period. Install speakers are often played to fill more than just the room they are mounted in, so If the listener is in another room the volume can accidently be turned up to extremely high levels, and therefore permanently damage the speakers. The PTC system will prevent this for happening, since it acts like a fuse if the current gets too high.

All internal wiring is optimized for the speaker design and is placed and secured to eliminate the possibility of rattling. The terminals are placed directly on the crossover for the shortest possible signal path, and the spring loaded grip ensures the best possible long lasting connection to the speaker wire.

TWEETER

A large part of the DALI sonic definition comes from the use of a soft dome tweeter. The ferrite driven magnet motor system is able to handle more power and disperses heat generated in the voice coil rapidly, thereby reducing power compression.

The ultra light-weight weave fabric combined with the very capable magnet motor system allows the tweeter to reproduce high frequencies with higher accuracy, giving the PHANTOM H-120 an impressively detailed sound.

The positioning of the tweeter front plate near the dome has been optimised to create the optimal working conditions for the soft dome. The aim is to combine an extended frequency response with wide dispersion and low colouration, and improve the integration of both the tweeter and the mid/bass driver.

WOOFER

A true Hi-Fi speaker is able to deliver a believable soundstage, render even the smallest micro detail in the audio signal without colouration while letting the amplifier do all the work. DALI has designed the woofers in the PHANTOM H-120 to meet these and many more demands. By basing the woofer around the trademark DALI material, the lightweight and very well behaved wood fibre cone, we lay the ground work for reproducing every small detail in the music, delivering a high resolution mid range and the precise and coherent bass DALI is well known for.

WIDE DISPERSION

All DALI speakers are designed around the principle of wide dispersion. This entails an off-axis optimisation of the audio reproduction, helping deliver the music or movie audio to the largest possible part of the room. This technology is perfect for use with install speakers, since they are always mounted flush against either a wall or a ceiling. Working with the off-axis optimisation ensures that the listener will have a large sweet spot where the soundstage is perfect, but also that the sound received when away from the sweet spot is still of a very high quality.

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