The Official Mirage Speakers Thread

[Dase]

I went up to my brothers for bbq Tuesday night and he has a new roomate (big college roomate house)... anyhoo after eating the conversation drifted to HT and this guy says come check my mirage setup. So we go upstairs and he's got 2 M7si's as fronts, 2 M5si's as rears, and a BPS-400. I didn't check to see which center.

We checked out the disaster scenes on the Knowing blu and it was quite an experience to say the least. I had never seen towers like that with drivers on both sides. Those towers are heavy.

Anyway, good stuff.

[langn08]

Originally Posted by sergmark

Well they arrived. They are in a temporary place, they are being broken in as pictued. Is there any comparison with my old JBL GHE 1000V's ?? I am surprised they are not damaged !!

Nice! Take thoes grills off and lets have a look!

[sergmark]

Well some more speakes arrived. These are great. I need some stands for the 150's

[sergmark]

A couple more !!
These are some solid speakers!! They seem to crank pretty good but I need to break the rest in now.
Have to decide on a sub when I get some more cash!!

[pants1982]

sergmark, what are you going to use to mount your rears? I am trying to find a stand or wall mount i just cant seem to find anything that really sticks out.

By the way great looking speakers

[sergmark]

I'm not sure yet. I think they will go on a stand and not on the wall.. I have limited space for the rears
Yes great speakers !!

[sergmark]

Another side shot... This wood is awesome. These speakers fill my 16 x11 room very nice. My wife is in Ukraine. I wonder what she will say when she comes home....

[ozzman]

Originally Posted by -dase-

I went up to my brothers for bbq Tuesday night and he has a new roomate (big college roomate house)... anyhoo after eating the conversation drifted to HT and this guy says come check my mirage setup. So we go upstairs and he's got 2 M7si's as fronts, 2 M5si's as rears, and a BPS-400. I didn't check to see which center.

We checked out the disaster scenes on the Knowing blu and it was quite an experience to say the least. I had never seen towers like that with drivers on both sides. Those towers are heavy.

Anyway, good stuff.

I bet you mean M5si's for fronts.There the bigger speaker then the M7si's.
Before i got my paradigms i wanted M7si's for rears.

Just because of the speakers, i bet he also has a MCSI center

[ozzman]

Originally Posted by sergmark

Another side shot... This wood is awesome. These speakers fill my 16 x11 room very nice. My wife is in Ukraine. I wonder what she will say when she comes home....

Congrats on your speakers.The wood finish looks awesome

You got A beautiful speaker set up

[sergmark]

Originally Posted by ozzman

Congrats on your speakers.The wood finish looks awesome

You got A beautiful speaker set up

Thanks Ozzman,
Love the wood !!
I am shocked but I have my rear surrounds on the floor, carpet until I find some stands and they seem to have good sound ?? Maybe because of the design of the speakers pushes the sound up, but the ports are on the front, more bass??....

[ozzman]

Originally Posted by sergmark

Thanks Ozzman,
Love the wood !!
I am shocked but I have my rear surrounds on the floor, carpet until I find some stands and they seem to have good sound ?? Maybe because of the design of the speakers pushes the sound up, but the ports are on the front, more bass??....

Finding stands are so easy.I have like 6 pairs all different sizes.
If you have a couple of pawn shops around were you live then you should check them out.

Saves alot of money and you'll be surprised what you come up with

[sergmark]

H'mm thats a good Idea. Have to get with the wife and go look.

[DIY_HD]

I have the older Omni series speakers. Check out my gallery for photos. I got the fronts, center and surrounds in 2003 and picked up the back surrounds in 2005. I had to get those in platinum since they were discontinuing that series and I wanted to keep the same series to match the voices. They are paintable, but I decided that they matched the gray kitchen counter and black appliances quite well.

I considered in-wall speakers for the surrounds, but the choices were so limited and these sounded so good in the showroom. I also have a 2-story family room, so filling it with sound is no easy task. I studied a lot of articles on speaker placement and tried them in various positions in the room. To my delight, they are so non-directional that speaker placement was not that critical. I always feel like I am immersed in sound (depending on the sound track, of course).

A word of caution, be very careful when dusting/cleaning the titanium dome tweeters. I pushed one in and had to take off the diffuser and suck it back out with my mouth (no kidding, a kiss works wonders). It worked, but it did leave a small wrinkle in the surface of the dome. It's cosmetic, though. I put my ear right up to the speaker and could not hear any distortion.

I actually got the speakers years before I got a Blu-ray player. It was like falling in love with them all over again! They are well-named. If you close your eyes, you can hear some directionality, but its a mirage! The quality, however, is no mirage. They are solid. I'm saving up for the S-10 sub to complete the set.

My sister came over and I played 3:10 to Yuma for her. After the show she said, "Wow, so that's what home theater sounds like!"

[sergmark]

These speakers are growing on me just made some more adjustments. I just watched Knowing and when the plane crashes and another scene I forget I could feel the room shaking and the volume is only about 35 %.... I'm very pleased ..

Soon after I opened the speakers my wife started to touch the tweeter. I had to warn her she doesn't know much about sound.. LOL

[Vento_Dub9]

Originally Posted by sergmark

These speakers are growing on me just made some more adjustments. I just watched Knowing and when the plane crashes and another scene I forget I could feel the room shaking and the volume is only about 35 %.... I'm very pleased ..

Soon after I opened the speakers my wife started to touch the tweeter. I had to warn her she doesn't know much about sound.. LOL

I'm glad you like them, I just purchased two Omni 550's and the 150 center channel from vans. I think I got all three for under $375, I couldn't pass it up. These will be an upgrade from a hand me down Yamaha setup so I'm excited to hear them. I have a Pioneer VSX-816 to power them and plan to grab some of the omni-stats for the rears. Not sure which sub yet...
I'll throw some pics up of the setup when I get them hopefully next week.

[sergmark]

I still have my rears on the floor. Haven't had time to look for stands I am VERY happy with this set up.. They do fill the room up like some people say ..

[Vento_Dub9]

Originally Posted by sergmark

I still have my rears on the floor. Haven't had time to look for stands I am VERY happy with this set up.. They do fill the room up like some people say ..

How do like your sub so far? Curious where you got it from as well. Thanks
I was thinking about keeping with the Mirage theme and go for the S8 but would like the cherry finish to match the rest of the speakers.

[sergmark]

I am no sound expert, I can feel it in my stomach . If you like a lot of boom you might want the 12. But this thing can shake things up. I am very happy with it... Check the subwoofer section out and then ebay.

[Vento_Dub9]

Just received the speakers yesterday 550's and the c150 center and they are bigger than I expected. So far I'm very happy with them, I haven't really had a chance to crank them up too much. Once everything is setup I'll snap some pics.

[sergmark]

Originally Posted by Vento_Dub9

Just received the speakers yesterday 550's and the c150 center and they are bigger than I expected. So far I'm very happy with them, I haven't really had a chance to crank them up too much. Once everything is setup I'll snap some pics.

Thats cool... They were bigger than I thought too!! I think they are very nice piece of funiture !! I still need to test them I have not had them over 50 % and they sound great !!