Your eyes don't deceive you, Mirage speakers has a new look

by Steven Kim, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 11:35PM

We just love the breadth of offerings in speaker design, especially towards the high-end of the market. If bipolar, dipolar and tripolar drivers are enough "polar" for you, you can try out an omnipolar speaker like the ones produced by Mirage. Even though the company is sticking to the unique-looking, top-mounted omnipolar drivers that have been a calling card for years, it is going to live up to its name and revamp the branding and marketing approach. It's comforting to our aged audiophile hearts to see familiar two-channel names make the transition to the modern A/V ecosphere, even if that means more "lifestyle" designs. In the coming months, look for Mirage to introduce its smallest 5.1 speaker system yet (maybe a "Picosat" system beneath the already-small Nanosat 5.1 system?) and compact subwoofers; but we're more intrigued by the promise of a new Omnisat floorstanding models.

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Tags: mirage, nanosat, omnipolar, omnisat, speakers

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Ken @ Jul 27th 2008 11:47PM

Hmmmm, I sell Mirage, and this is the first I have heard of this (I usually am able to get a nugget or two early).

Personally, I am not a huge fan of their speakers (their subwoofers are wonderful, though) - but then again, performance is priority #1 for me, so dainty little speakers are not my thing.

However, these are small, pretty 'lifestyle' speakers that people will pick over Bose if you show them, and they are vastly better. The speakers spraying sound all over the place is great for people who have seating all over the room, will have the speakers in funny places, etc. For their market, they are not bad. Looking forward to the new stuff, should be killer.

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JermTool @ Jul 28th 2008 3:04AM

Your whole response is all over the place and I don't even think you got a point across.

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David Susilo @ Jul 28th 2008 7:18AM

I think he meant the following:

1. the omnipolar system being used on their floorstanding speakers is news to him

2. he doesn't like the omnipolar system on the Mirage Nanosat system.

3. he doesn't really like Mirage speakers but likes the subwoofer

4. he claims that the Mirage Nanosat is better than Bose systems (uhm... what system at Bose's price doesn't sound better than Bose?)

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tatico @ Jul 31st 2008 11:20AM

I am looking forward to mirage new speakers, Specially the new 3rd generation of omnisat. I have heard the Omnisat V2, and they sound amazing.
the whole omnisat v2 5.1 system goes for $2,100. I was about to purchase them. But now hhahahahah
I will wait for the new Omnisat V3
I head they come in Gloss black and that they be Sexier looking.
Thank you so much Mirage and your parent company for these babies\
Thanks again

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