Mirage Omnisat OS 1PB-1 Omnipolar Satellite – Made in Canada

Mirage Omnisat OS 1PB-1 — Omnipolar Dispersion, Made in Canada

Mirage Omnisat OS 1PB-1 Omnipolar Satellite Speaker – Made in Canada, Award Winner, 7 lb Build, Very Good Condition

Made in Canada, and one of the genuinely original loudspeaker designs of its era. Winner of the Home Theater Sound “Product of the Year” award, and the speaker that created an entirely new class.

Mirage’s starting point was an observation about how we actually hear. In a real room, roughly thirty percent of what reaches your ears is direct sound and the other seventy percent is reflected — sound that has bounced off a wall, a ceiling, a floor before arriving. Most loudspeakers ignore this entirely and fire everything straight at you. Mirage’s Omnipolar designs try to reproduce the real balance instead.

The Omnisat is head designer Andrew Welker’s answer, and it is a genuinely clever piece of engineering. Both drivers fire upward rather than forward. Above the 4.5-inch woofer sits a spoon-like metal reflector — Mirage calls it an OMNIGUIDE — which disperses its output through a full 360 degrees. The OMNIGUIDE also houses the one-inch Pure Titanium Hybrid tweeter, which likewise fires upward into a second OMNIGUIDE above it.

The subtlety is in the geometry. Those reflectors are not centred over the drivers. They sit fractionally rearward and are angled slightly away, and the drivers themselves are tilted rather than firing straight up. The result is 360-degree dispersion with a deliberate bias toward the front. Welker’s contention is that pushing a little more energy forward than back is what makes the sound launch into a room naturally rather than merely diffusely — and in practice, he was right.

What that does is remove the speaker from the equation. The soundstage detaches from the cabinets and fills the room, and the sweet spot stops being a single chair. For surround duty in particular it is difficult to better, because ambience arrives from everywhere rather than from two obvious points on the wall.

This is the original Omnisat, and it is worth understanding what that means. Each one weighs a genuine 7 lbs, where the later revised versions come in at well under five. That difference is not packaging. It is the thick-walled plastic enclosure, fortified with a foaming agent and finished in an almost suede-like texture — knock on it and there is nothing to hear. It is the cast aluminum baffle the woofer sits on, strong and heavy and handsome, at a size and price where nobody else was doing it. The woofer also runs butyl rubber surrounds rather than foam, which is why these are still playing properly two decades on instead of waiting for a refoam. You can feel where the money went the moment you pick one up.

Mounting is well thought out. There is one large threaded insert at the rear for stand or bracket mounting, and moulded slots in the base for flush wall mounting — the wall plate screws to the wall first, and the speaker slides down onto it and seats under its own weight. We have the correct original Mirage flush wall mounts available separately.

The removable rounded wire-mesh grille is present, straight and unmarked.

Condition

Cosmetically this is in very good condition. The enclosure is clean with no cracks or stress marks, and the cast aluminum baffle has kept its finish.

It has been thoroughly inspected and tested to confirm full functionality.

Features: Omnipolar 360-degree dispersion with deliberate forward bias Twin OMNIGUIDE reflectors, upward-firing drivers 1″ PTH Pure Titanium Hybrid tweeter, Mirage-made 4.5″ Polypropylene Titanium Deposit Hybrid woofer with butyl surrounds Cast aluminum woofer baffle Thick-walled, foam-fortified enclosure with suede-like finish — acoustically inert Substantial 7 lb build, considerably heavier than the later revisions Magnetically shielded High quality 5-way binding posts Removable wire-mesh grille Large threaded insert at rear for stand or bracket mounting Moulded slots in base for flush wall mounting

Built in Canada, award winning, and increasingly hard to find in this condition. These retailed new at $250 USD each — around $770 Canadian for a pair with tax.

Mirage Omnisat OS 1PB-1 Specifications

• Model: OS 1PB-1
• System Type: Magnetically Shielded Omnipolar Satellite
• Configuration: Two-way
• Frequency Response: 70Hz – 20kHz (±3dB)
• Crossover Point: 2.2kHz
• Room Efficiency: 89dB
• Impedance: 8 ohms nominal, 4 ohms minimum
• Power Handling: 150 watts
• Recommended Amplifier Power: 10 – 150 watts RMS per channel
• Tweeter: 1″ PTH Pure Titanium Hybrid
• Woofer: 4.5″ Polypropylene Titanium Deposit Hybrid, butyl surround
• Inputs: 5-way binding posts
• Country of Manufacture: Canada
• Dimensions: (Width x Height x Depth) 6.25 x 8 x 8 inches (159 x 203 x 203 mm)
• Weight: 7 lbs (3.2 kg) each

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