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High-Fidelity Canadian Mirage Floorstanding Speakers 460

Name: High-Fidelity Canadian Mirage Floorstanding Speakers 460
Brand: Mirage
SKU: 10165
Price: 345.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

$345.00

Consignment piece. We sell it on behalf of its owner, and it's covered exactly like everything else we sell: inspected and serviced as required, and backed by our Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and Perpetual Trade-Back Program. The one difference: it isn't eligible for Cue It Up layaway.

A 1-inch dome tweeter and an 8-inch woofer in a heavily braced, rear-ported cabinet — 35 Hz to 20 kHz, 88 dB sensitivity, 8 ohms, and 33 lbs apiece. The ports fire rearward and the grilles are inset and non-diffracting; binding posts take banana, spade or bare wire. Rated for 20 to 100 watts a channel. Tested and working perfectly.

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Mirage 460 Floorstanding Speakers – Canadian High-Fidelity Classics

These Mirage 460 speakers deliver classic, room-filling Canadian sound in a refined, robust package. Carefully tested and working perfectly, this well-built pair showcases the renowned Mirage approach: natural tonal balance, excellent transparency, and a truly engaging listening experience for everything from jazz to rock.

Featuring a 2-way, bass-reflex design, the Mirage 460s use a high-quality 1″ dome tweeter and an 8″ woofer in a heavily braced cabinet for impressive clarity and richly extended bass. The thick cabinet walls minimize resonance, producing clean, powerful sound whether used as main or secondary speakers. Rear-firing ports allow for flexible room placement, and inset, non-diffracting grilles echo classic Canadian engineering details. Their neutral, uncolored sound makes them easy to match with a wide variety of amplifiers and sources.

These speakers are respected for their detailed mids and highs, punchy bass, and lively presentation. With a proven track record among collectors and Canadian audio enthusiasts, the Mirage 460 is both a great entry point and a serious performer in any hi-fi system.

Specifications:

2-way, bass-reflex floorstanding loudspeaker (rear-ported)

1″ (25mm) dome tweeter

8″ woofer (original Polypropylene driver)

Nominal Impedance: 8 ohms

Sensitivity: 88dB (1W/1m)

Recommended Power: 20–100W per channel

Frequency Response: 35Hz–20kHz

Connections: Standard binding posts (accept banana, spade, bare wire)

Non-diffracting, inset grilles

Dimensions: 9.5 x 32 x 12 inches (approx. 240 x 813 x 305 mm)
Weight: 33 lbs (15 kg) each

The Mirage 460s are well-built, great-sounding classics—authentic pieces of Canadian hi-fi heritage, offered in good, fully tested condition. Ready to bring reliable, immersive music enjoyment to your listening room or office. Contact us to audition and experience their honest, natural sound for yourself!

Buy with confidence and benefit from Radique’s Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and Perpetual Trade-Back Program.

$345.00

Additional information

Weight	70 lbs
Dimensions	16 × 25 × 36 in

About brand

Mirage at Radique

We service Mirage, too. Bring us your own Mirage speakers and subwoofers for repair, servicing or restoration (speakers up to 80 lbs each), with a 90-day warranty on the work. See our Audio Service page

Mirage is a Canadian speaker brand, founded in Toronto in the late 1970s and later built by Audio Products International in Scarborough, in the same factory as Energy. Its bipolar and Omnipolar designs send sound in more than one direction. We carry Mirage towers, satellites, centre channels and subwoofers. We've had more than 110 Mirage listings so far. Every used Mirage here is inspected, tested and serviced as required, then photographed in-house and covered by our Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and Perpetual Trade-Back Program. Don't see the model you want? Tell us on First Dibs and we'll email you when one arrives.

The Mirage story

Jeff Percy, Jeff Soltysek and Patrick Dempster founded Mirage in Toronto in the late 1970s (1979, according to Stereophile). Kevin Voecks, later of Snell and Revel, did the original designs. Audio Products International of Scarborough, which already assembled Mirage speakers, took the company over in the mid-1980s.

Bipolar. The M-1 of 1987, begun by Voecks and completed by API's Ian Paisley, fired identical drivers forward and backward, in phase. Mirage's engineers worked with the National Research Council's loudspeaker research here in Ottawa.

Omnipolar. The OM-6 of 1997 was the first commercial version of Mirage's Omnipolar idea, and the Omnisat satellite system followed in 2002.

New owners. Klipsch bought API in 2006, and VOXX bought Klipsch in 2011. Later models were made in China; the 2007 OMD-28 was "designed by API in Canada and built in China". Around the end of 2022, Oscar Bernardo, a former API executive, bought the Mirage brand himself to relaunch it.

Which Mirage is which?

Early two-ways (1980s to early 1990s): models owners discuss include the SM-1, 190, 290, M-360 and M-460.

M-series bipolar (1987 to late 1990s): the M-1, M-3, and the "si" models such as the M-1si, M-3si and M-7si.

OM-series Omnipolar (1997 to early 2000s): the OM-6, OM-7 and OM-9, and the OM-5 subwoofer.

Home theatre: FRx (2001), Omnisat and Nanosat satellites (2002 to 2005), OMD (2007) and MX (2009), plus the OMNI towers and Uni-Theater.

Subwoofers: the BPS bipolar subs, the LF-150 and MM-6, and the Nano subwoofers.

Buying used Mirage: what to check

Surrounds. Materials vary by model: some M-series midranges use foam surrounds that turn brittle, while many woofers use rubber. Check the rear-firing drivers too.

Tweeters. Owners report that original M-1 tweeters become fragile and have been unavailable for years. Check that every tweeter plays, front and rear.

Powered woofers and subwoofers. Test the built-in amplifier at volume; owners report failed sub amplifiers with no replacement available.

Finish and pairs. M-series panels are lacquered and some clip off plastic fasteners, so look for damage. The M-1si was built in mirror-image pairs.

Placement. Omnipolar and bipolar speakers sound best well out from the wall.

Everything we list is inspected, tested and serviced as required here, and comes with our warranty.