Omega The Seven Bookshelf Speakers

Thank you all

I had a pair of Alnico 6s a few years ago, before the pandemic. I liked them quite a bit. The image (soundstage) was great but they were quite rolled off at the top and bottom end. I have found this to be true with most single driver speakers. I can augment the lower notes through careful use and matching of subwoofers. I used the Omegas with a variety of amps: Triode Labs 45, Audio Note OTO (EL84), a hand built single-ended KT77 amp and a Macintosh MC225 2-stage PP amp using 7591 tubes. That amp was by far the best match (to my ears) with the Omegas and just about every other high efficiency speaker I owned or tested.

FYI, I also had a pair or Coherent 8s at the same time I owned the Omegas. I spent quite a bit of time comparing the speakers. In the end I preferred the Coherent speakers with my ears, my room and my music. The Coherent 8s were still rolled off, but not as much. I wasn't fond of the residual effects from the Omega drivers And the Omegas sounded a little "congested" compared to the Coherent 8s. BUT, this is my opinion and I was using one model Omega speaker. Louis offers several models and will make custom products. I have no doubt that a different Omega speaker would have compared differently.

The regular range no longer lists that model, and that driver appears neither in any monitor or floorstander in the range. The CAM and SAM are each using a 6.5in full-range driver with whizzer cones. To move to a larger transducer, Louis is apparently placing a second 3.1 (4.5 in. cone) or 6.5 in. driver with a LF cutoff at 200Hz for a low-frequency-only driver while the other speaker remains full-range, calling these "1.5-way speakers." There is no crossover. The floorstanders have two 8-inch driver models, one with 2 speaker cones and a second pair of models with one or two of the 3i  cones..

You might email Louis to ask about the 7. He does special designs as an OEM manufacturer (a 2.1 speaker system for Symbol Audio's $30K console, for example)