rear surround speaker

If you are interested in going the Mirage Omnisat/Nanosat route, you might want to first try a pair of these:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&Partnumber=309-400

They use the Omni-directional technology licensed from Mirage and they look very much like a pair of Omnisats. Heck, for $39/pr you could simply throw them away if they don't float your boat.....

Enjoy,

TIC

Heck, for $39/pr you could simply throw them away if they don't float your boat.....
Enjoy,

TIC

With are land-fills growing daily, please, don't throw them away,instead give them to any needy music lover...8^)

Aol,

It was a bad choice of words. Sorry, but I should have said something like "give them away"....

BTW, They apparently make GREAT computer music speakers. Add them to a little self powered computer subwoofer/amp setup and they may be quite good....

Enjoy,

TIC

TIC,

Thanks,

Only one planet...

About those Mirage-licensed Omnisat knock-offs: for the money, they'd be a good value and probably are excellent computer speakers. But for home theater, you might want to consider this: These licensed speakers are nowhere near the same performance or build quality of the originals. The originals use butyl surround titanium deposit poly drivers and cloth-surround pure titanium dome tweeters, are down 3dB at 70 Hz and have power handling of about 175 watts. The knock-offs use a paper driver, go down to about 135 Hz (a full octave higher), and only handle 55 watts. It's the power handling that concerns me the most about HT.

That said, I have Mirage Omnisats, and the way this speaker design radiates and energizes the room is great. At $39 (down from $89) you'd get a lot of that and I can't say enough for the effectiveness of that design.