HERE IT IS!! What-hifi's complete review of the Ikon HT system!!Anything you can do, IKON do better!
WE LIKE DALI’s IKON 6 floorstanders: these elegant towers earned a best-in-class Award in 2005, and proffer a full-bodied, beautifully cohesive sound that plays all types of music well. It should follow, then, that a surround sound package based around such outstanding core components ought to at least have a fighting chance.
So it proves- and then some.
This new Dali system isn’t just capable, or even merely good: it’s outstanding in every regard, and a real treat for the ears.The balance is delightfully even-handed, delivering everything from intense action-movie dynamics to barely audible surround effects with equal aplomb, while musically (you’d expect) we’ve no complaints.
Every system in the Ikon package – the 6 floorstanders, the Vokal 2 centre channel and the On Wall surround speakers – employs a dual-tweeter array, featuring a conventional 28mm soft-dome design augmented by a ribbon tweeter.
This unusual set-up is designed to provide wider dispersion and better high-frequency insight when compared to conventional speakers, and in this application, it works to perfection; all five Dali speakers boast superlative reach, together creating a surround soundfield of improbable size and remarkable realism.
Dynamics are seldom less than imperious, either. The Ikon 6s are big speakers, able to reach down to a claimed 37Hz – but in this package, their low-frequency efforts are further reinforced by the aptly named SUB, a 250 watt active sub with a forward-firing 30cm bass driver.
Although ported design, the SUB musters sufficient speed to keep pace with its urgent, articulate siblings: the result, when teamed with the powerful fronts, is a healthy level of a sofa-shaking urge with V for Vendetta’s excesses. Weaknesses? Just one: this is a big system (save for the neat wall-hanging On Wall rears), and it needs room to breathe. We’d imagine that shouldn’t be an issue in context: if you can find ₤2,238 for speakers, you’ll likely have a big enough house to cope. Otherwise, consider this yet another Ikon success story.
