likestoparty
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Good evening! Jon Darby here, Seattle, Washington. Enough about me, I would like to humbly ask some of the loudspeaker elders to give me an idea how the bass clarity and punch of my Mirage speakers is so damned good.
I acquired a pair of Mirage M5si speakers that were unquestionably Canadian judging by the amount of maple syrup I have cleaned off of them. Also, some kid who deserves being restrained in Chinese finger cuffs poked two of the tweeter domes inward, but after a thorough disassembly and restoration I've installed them in my "listening room" (what us poor urban audiophiles situationally call our combined living room/kitchen/library/dining room/workshop, amazing what $1200/month doesn't actually get you for the prestige of saying you live downtown. I digress...). To say I've been handed my own ass in what I thought a set of speakers could sound like is a true understatement. These monoliths are absolutely spectactular equally playing I Am The Walrus and episodes of Game of Thrones. I've been watching other people's ads, and the money that they draw in the used market is simply not fair for how impressive they can sound!
I've decided not only to keep them instead of flipping them, but I want to emulate them as a nice ice breaker to get to know my fellow stereophiles in the Pacific Northwest, which I am a recent arrival from Washington, DC, in the Mercer Island speaker contest happening later this week. I have drawn and redrawn several designs, all the wood is butchered and ready to go, but I want to know what sort of magic is happening inside these things to give such a huge sound stage. I'm running them off a Yamaha CR-440 that cost about a college degree less than a McIntosh tube amp and my jaw still drops every time they come alive. Led Zeppelin sounds like Led Zeppelin. As I said, I had these disassembled as much as you can but was unable to see any woodwork inside or anything magic. The drivers are so tiny in relation to the impact they punch. Is there anything special about the drivers?
A further explanation of my motives here in this inquiry, I would like to construct a flat entertainment console 6 feet wide as though the two Mirages were set end-to-end, baffles on the short sides pointing at the consumer with 3-way Inifinity Three drivers installed (because that is what I have, let's not get all "throw some money a it", I refoamed them myself yesterday and they sound beautiful). The bipolar concept would be wonderful to retain but I simply can't attribute the wonderful bass sound to that so can be dispensed. I'd like a modern, great sounding platform to sit your TV atop in a small urban environment like we are imprisoned in in this concrete jungle. Is it simply a big, well calculated cavity with dual ports doing this or is there a labyrinth for the woofer airflow to travel and grow inside them? I can't find any Mirage anatomy visually, let alone mathematically, presented to me online. These speakers do predate the global acceptance of the Internet, after all. Anyhoo. Thank you for your wisdom and time.
I acquired a pair of Mirage M5si speakers that were unquestionably Canadian judging by the amount of maple syrup I have cleaned off of them. Also, some kid who deserves being restrained in Chinese finger cuffs poked two of the tweeter domes inward, but after a thorough disassembly and restoration I've installed them in my "listening room" (what us poor urban audiophiles situationally call our combined living room/kitchen/library/dining room/workshop, amazing what $1200/month doesn't actually get you for the prestige of saying you live downtown. I digress...). To say I've been handed my own ass in what I thought a set of speakers could sound like is a true understatement. These monoliths are absolutely spectactular equally playing I Am The Walrus and episodes of Game of Thrones. I've been watching other people's ads, and the money that they draw in the used market is simply not fair for how impressive they can sound!
I've decided not only to keep them instead of flipping them, but I want to emulate them as a nice ice breaker to get to know my fellow stereophiles in the Pacific Northwest, which I am a recent arrival from Washington, DC, in the Mercer Island speaker contest happening later this week. I have drawn and redrawn several designs, all the wood is butchered and ready to go, but I want to know what sort of magic is happening inside these things to give such a huge sound stage. I'm running them off a Yamaha CR-440 that cost about a college degree less than a McIntosh tube amp and my jaw still drops every time they come alive. Led Zeppelin sounds like Led Zeppelin. As I said, I had these disassembled as much as you can but was unable to see any woodwork inside or anything magic. The drivers are so tiny in relation to the impact they punch. Is there anything special about the drivers?
A further explanation of my motives here in this inquiry, I would like to construct a flat entertainment console 6 feet wide as though the two Mirages were set end-to-end, baffles on the short sides pointing at the consumer with 3-way Inifinity Three drivers installed (because that is what I have, let's not get all "throw some money a it", I refoamed them myself yesterday and they sound beautiful). The bipolar concept would be wonderful to retain but I simply can't attribute the wonderful bass sound to that so can be dispensed. I'd like a modern, great sounding platform to sit your TV atop in a small urban environment like we are imprisoned in in this concrete jungle. Is it simply a big, well calculated cavity with dual ports doing this or is there a labyrinth for the woofer airflow to travel and grow inside them? I can't find any Mirage anatomy visually, let alone mathematically, presented to me online. These speakers do predate the global acceptance of the Internet, after all. Anyhoo. Thank you for your wisdom and time.
/:gigglemad
I'm not exactly understanding your console concept but pictures would help greatly. BTW, I'm just north of you in Bellingham.