Mirage Speakers?

Mirage Speakers?

One of the best dynamic speakers I have ever heard was the Mirage M1's.
https://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/689mirage/index.html

Cheers George

I used to have some Mirage 490’s I bought long ago, and finally sold about three years ago as I realized I would not use them again. Different from the 460’s, with a front port.


All I can tell you is that they were well made, and provided some deep end for ‘bookshelves’. Unfortunately they seemed to lack mid-range punch and clarity to me. Somewhat ‘dark’ overall. I actually paired them with my even older Polk 5 JR’s, and together the made a pretty good match combined.


Not sure what else to tell you. Canadian made, I know they do have a following, and in general, make some pretty good stuff. They are not cheap speakers, nor necessarily budget speakers, but not what you would call ‘high end’ either.


The Marantz? A late 90’s AV receiver. No digital inputs. No remote. Thus, if you want a modern AV receiver, you can do much better for what these sell for used. For music? I’d skip it entirely.

I use Mirage M290 two ways as computer speakers with a Belles power amp.  This makes an excellent near field system.  I heard Mirage M1 speakers dem'od several times.  They were an excellent bipolar speaker though on the whole I much prefer dipolar sound.

well I have two pairs of Mirages m-7si and the m-3si as well , the company is out of business, they was purchased by Klipsch then the brand was killed by them, very power hungry speakers, mine has a Sensitivity of 89db and sounded dead to me, and i had a HIGH CURRENT AMP powering them,I will be selling them at a local flea Market. Plus how would you get drivers for them if blown.

Mirage M3si’s were one of stereofiles reference speakers for several years. I have had a pair M290’s for years, very good bookshelf speaker. Also have one of their subs, well made, great sounding. 

NDG services in Canada has tons of NOS parts for most all Mirage speakers.