Dali Rubikore 2

Kore, blimey-our first taste of Dali's 'Kore era is truly delectable

When a brand welcomes a new product into the world, it helps if it can associate it with existing quality. Indeed, if that product can piggyback on something renowned or desirable, it gets a rosy start in life before it has the chance to make its own mark on the world. So it makes perfect sense for Dali to tie the name of its latest speaker series to that of its flagship and irrefutably high-end pair of Kore loudspeakers.

Since a pair of Dali hi-fi speakers last entered our test rooms, the brand has entered a new era of engineering we can only really refer to as ‘Kore’. First came the aforementioned Kore reference speaker in 2022, followed by the step-down Epikore model a year later, and now, beneath both them and the veteran Epicon range (which we can only hope will eventually make way for a fleshed-out Epikore series), we have a fully fledged Rubikore range. It succeeds the Rubicon range, which included the talented Rubicon 2 standmounters.

Just a taste…

It is with that very model’s successor, the Dali Rubikore 2, that we have our first taste of what this new ‘Kore’ era is all about. All told, the two-way standmounts give us more of a nibble than a mouthful, akin to the first bite of a shared starter taken on a first date, as opposed to the cramming in of a whole pizza slice on the tenth. While they boast technology inspired by The Ultimate Dali Speaker 32 times their price, other members of the Rubikore range have even more.

The Rubikore 2 features a 17cm mid/ bass driver which uses Dali’s paper and wood-fibre ‘Clarity Cone’ to help with midrange clarity, and incorporates the company’s patented, long-used SMC (Soft Magnetic Compound) magnet material technology, designed to reduce distortion, flux modulation and eddy currents in the double-magnet system.