If you’re looking for the best floorstanders below £1000, you now have plenty of choice. New contenders such as the Q Acoustics 5040 and Fyne Audio F501E have sparked the sector to life, as has the price reduction of Wharfedale’s excellent Evo 4.4.
Yet, though they might be getting a touch long in the tooth, Dali’s Oberon 5 remain one of the front runners at this level.
There are no magic ingredients here, there’s no cutting-edge technology to explain the Oberon 5’s unusually talented nature. Just careful engineering and steady refinements of design ideas that the Danish brand has pursued across its speaker ranges for years, but in this case honed to get the best performance at the price.