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Impressive Mirage Omnipolar Center with Huge Soundstage OS3-CC

Name: Impressive Mirage Omnipolar Center with Huge Soundstage OS3-CC
Brand: Mirage
SKU: 8290
Price: 245.00 CAD
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Categories: Used/Vintage, Speakers, Center Channels

Description

Impressive Mirage Omnipolar Center with Huge Soundstage

The sleek Mirage OS3-CC centre channel speaker delivers crystal-clear dialogue and smooth, accurate sound for on-screen special effects. You’ll hear exceptional detail with movies, TV shows, and video games. This speaker’s sophisticated design ensures a spacious, realistic soundstage. Place it on your TV or audio/video cabinet or mount it on the wall above or below your flat-panel TV.

Innovative design for expansive, lifelike sound The key to this speaker’s open, true-to-life sound is Mirage’s exclusive Omnipolar® technology. The OS3-CC disperses sound evenly in a 360° pattern, thanks to the saucer-shaped Omniguide mounted above its drivers. The result: a deeper, wider, taller soundstage that transforms your entire listening space into a “sweet spot.” You won’t have to anchor yourself to one prime seat — you’ll experience warm, natural audio throughout the room.

Product highlights:

video-shielded

frequency response 70-20,000 Hz (±3dB)

Omnipolar technology for 360° sound dispersion

handles up to 175 watts

3/4″ PTH™ tweeter

3″ Titanium Deposit Hybrid polypropylene midrange

dual 4-1/2″ woofers with neodymium motors and Ribbed Elliptical Surround™ technology

impedance: 8-ohm nominal

sensitivity: 91 dB

binding posts

high-gloss black satin finish

Dimension: Height: 5.2 inches (13.2 cm), Width: 17.8 inches (45.2 cm), Depth: 4.6 inches (11.7 cm)

Weight: 5.6 lbs (2.54 kg)

MSRP of $399 USD ~ $645 CND with HST. Asking just $245 for this extremely impressive compact center speaker from Mirage.

Additional information

Weight	7.6 lbs
Dimensions	8.6 × 21.8 × 9.2 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.