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SONIK 3
SONIK 3 gives you monitor-level coherence and precision with the richness of a larger speaker. Its 7-inch SMC™ and Clarity Cone™ woofer and 29mm ultra-light soft dome tweeter deliver crisp highs, detailed mids, and well-timed bass, so you can enjoy immersive, high-end sound whether it’s on a stand, shelf, or in furniture.
Compact speaker with full sound
Small in size, big in sound. SONIK 3 delivers rich, full-bodied audio that outperforms its compact design.
Flexible stand, shelf, or furniture placement
Place it where you want. SONIK 3 adapts beautifully to stands, shelves, or furniture without losing sound quality.
Balanced, crisp sound for every genre
From classical to cinema, SONIK 3 reveals detail and balance across every genre with clarity and natural precision.
Fits seamlessly into modern living spaces
Compact, stylish, and versatile - SONIK 3 blends effortlessly into modern living spaces without compromising performance.
COMPACT, POWERFUL SOUND
Compact speaker with full sound
Don’t let the size fool you. SONIK 3 is compact enough for shelves or stands but delivers the depth and scale of a larger speaker. With a 7-inch Clarity Cone™ woofer and ultra-light soft dome tweeter, it fills your room with detailed highs, articulate mids, and surprisingly full bass — all from a discreet design.
FLEXIBLE PLACEMENT
Flexible stand, shelf, or furniture placement
Your space, your choice. SONIK 3 has been designed for flexibility, whether on stands, tucked into furniture, or displayed on shelves. Its wide dispersion and balanced tuning ensure consistent performance wherever it sits. Compact and stylish, it integrates effortlessly into your living space while still delivering immersive, high-fidelity sound.
CRISP, BALANCED SOUND
Balanced, crisp sound for every genre
SONIK 3 is built for all your listening. Its advanced woofer and soft dome tweeter work in harmony to reveal music and movies with balance, detail, and clarity. Vocals stay natural, instruments shine, and effects remain crisp. Whatever you play, SONIK 3 delivers the same refined, high-quality sound across every genre
SEAMLESS DESIGN
Fits seamlessly into modern living spaces
Designed to complement your lifestyle, SONIK 3 combines elegant design with high-end performance. Its compact size and four premium finishes let it blend seamlessly into any room, from minimalist apartments to warm, classic interiors. Subtle yet powerful, SONIK 3 is as much a design statement as it is a source of exceptional sound.
UNCOLOURED, REALISTIC VOCALS
Clarity Cone™ Technology paper and wood fibre cones
Inspired by the DALI KORE technology, SONIK bass and midrange drivers feature Clarity Cone™ paper and wood fibre cones lightweight rigidity and superior resonance control. The Clarity Cone™ ensures a coherent and natural handover from driver to driver. The result is a more realistic, uncoloured upper midrange and seamless transition to the tweeter.
LOW DISTORTION, MORE DETAILS
SMC™ Essential Magnet System
The SONIK series uses our patented SMC™ magnet material to reduce distortion and improve linearity. A ferrite ring surrounds a hybrid iron-SMC™ pole piece, placing SMC™ directly in the voice coil’s working zone. This minimises hysteresis and eddy currents, delivering cleaner, more detailed and relaxed midrange performance.
PATENTED SOFT MAGNETIC COMPOSITE (SMC)
DALI SMC is our patented speaker driver magnet material technology used on most of our loudspeaker models. This article explains what it is, what it does, and how it delivers the best possible musical performance.
by Simon W.
February 22nd 2024
What is SMC driver magnet material?
Debuting in 2012 with our acclaimed EPICON series, SMC (Soft Magnetic Composite) is a coated, magnetic, granular material that offers a highly unusual combination of very high magnetic permeability and very low electrical conductivity.
Being a granular composite, SMC can be formed into almost any shape, including components used in the driver magnet system of many of our speakers as well as the DALI IO-12 headphones.
SMC removes a lot of the common braking effects that iron introduces to the free movement of the voice-coil – effects such as hysteresis, eddy currents, and frequency nonlinearity, which result in unwanted distortion and colouration of the sound you hear.
The ultimate goal of SMC technology is to make the reproduction of sound so free of distortion that you aren't able to tell the difference between a live or recorded performance.
Bringing music to life
DALI's patented SMC reduces distortion to a point that makes it difficult to tell the difference between a live or recorded performance.
Hysteresis
Hysteresis is a characteristic of many materials that result in different behaviour when it reverses the direction of an action. A spring, for example, may be stiffer in compression than in extension. In a speaker driver magnet system, a magnet may take longer to de-magnetise than magnetise, which leads to significant distortion.
With an iron driver magnet system, the problem is that the behaviour changes as the frequency changes – it's this nonlinearity that causes uneven harmonic distortion. If iron behaved the same, regardless of the frequency, there would be much less of a problem.
Eddy currents
Eddy currents form in the nearby electrically conductive materials surrounding the magnet gap and magnetic fields created by the voice-coil. With an iron pole piece (the part that sits closest to the voice-coil), eddy currents (or opposing magnetic fields) are generated in the iron, causing a braking effect on the voice-coil.
The eddy currents 'steal' the energy from the voice-coil's magnetic field, which would otherwise have been used to move the voice-coil.
The impressive thing about SMC material is that it doesn't suffer from hysteresis or generate eddy currents, since it's non-electrically conductive and also completely linear – no matter the frequency or volume level.
SMC's combination of very high magnetic conductivity and very low electrical conductivity results in a dramatic reduction in measurable and audible distortion...
Frequency and Inductance Linearity
In practice, the magnetically conductive material inside, or close to, the voice-coil will influence its self-inductance. Although this happens irrespective of whether iron or SMC is used, the transparency to the flux lines is very different between the two materials. Unlike iron, SMC behaves uniformly, regardless of frequency, which greatly lowers distortion in the magnet system.
In a loudspeaker where the same current is running through the voice-coil and filter components, SMC's properties mean the voice-coil's self-inductance is unchanged with frequency. This helps the crossover to operate freely across the entire frequency range.
The illustration below shows how flux density remains unchanged with frequency, which greatly reduces unwanted odd-order harmonics in the driver.
SMC's combination of very high magnetic conductivity and very low electrical conductivity (approximately 1/10,000th of iron) results in a dramatic reduction in measurable and audible distortion caused by mechanical loss in the magnet system.
SMC GEN-2: Are you ready for the next generation of SMC?
As the name suggests, SMC Gen-2 is the latest evolution of our SMC technology, offering significantly enhanced characteristics over the first-generation SMC. Compared to the already low electrical conductivity of SMC, SMC Gen-2 reduces conductivity by a further 2½ times. As a result, it has approximately 1/25,000th (or 0.004%) of the electrical conductivity of iron.
In the below illustration of the DALI EPIKORE 11 driver magnet system, the pole-piece and top-plate section in orange are formed from SMC Gen-2 material.
Other uses for SMC Gen-2
Because of its magnetic yet non-conducting properties, we also incorporate SMC Gen-2 material into one of our high-end crossover components.
Called the SMC-KORE inductor, this advanced component improves over standard air-core inductors (especially at high inductances) by lowering DC resistance, shortening signal path, and reducing vulnerability to crosstalk between inductors.
It also reduces crossover distortion significantly, compared to standard iron-core inductors.
DALI speakers with SMC
What was once reserved for our high-end EPICON series, today SMC and SMC Gen-2 technology is incorporated into many of our loudspeaker series, from OBERON and OPTICON MK 2 to EPIKORE 11 and our flagship DALI KORE speaker. We've even integrated SMC technology into our luxury DALI IO-12 headphones.
To find out more about SMC and some of our other advanced technologies, download the white paper from the DALI KORE product page.
Specifications
Frequency Range [+/- 3 dB] [Hz]
47 - 26,000
Sensitivity [2.83V/1m] [dB]
87
Nominal Impedance [ohms]
6
Maximum SPL [@ 1m] [dB]
108
Crossover Frequencies [Hz]
2,300
Crossover Principle
2-way
Recommended Amp. Power [watts]
25 - 150
High Frequency Driver(s)
1 x 29 mm low loss soft dome
Low/Mid Frequency Driver(s)
1 x 7-inch