Omni-polar sound dispersion, styling, quality

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I replaced my Mirage OM-C3 center with an upgrade to the Mirage OM-C2. The sound impovement is extremely noticable. My Denon 3802 receiver drives it wonderfully. The pink noise sound level test makes it quite obvious that the tonal balance with my new Mirage OM-C2 is a much better match with my OM-10 fronts, than my old OM-C3 center. The tone between the speakers is now seamless, the old C3 definitely had a different tonal balance.

For DVD movie play the center channel dialogue is now more crisp and full, and no longer sounds as if the dialogue is coming from a small box. The Omni-polar design of this center fills my 20x20 room and presents a wider sound stage, more like a movie theater.

For music, 7 channel stereo play is simply enhanced by high quality output of this speaker.

At $665, it was a significant discount from its List of $750, plus Tweeter took my C3 back in a full value trade up program. Go Tweeter!!!

My system: 6.1

Denon 3802
Mirage OM-C2-Center
Mirage OM-10-Fronts
Mirage OM-R2-Surrounds
Polk Audio Model 9's- Rear Surrounds
Boston V800-Sub

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Mirage C3 center

very.good.center.clear.bass.stage.

no.cover ;for.the. tweeter .mistake.from.company.

for.the.prise.5+ star.very.good.sound.like.b&w.htm.2.for.lees. money. 800.$$

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I listened to (and took several home) many center channel speakers. I had the use of a Vandersteen for about one week, Snell for a week, and a Mirage MC-si for 3 weeks. The OM-C2 has drivers in the front and back which gives a larger sound rather than coming from one point. The passive radiator helps produce the best bass I found in a center channel. I find the trebble a little soft, but that's probably good. The MC-si was not soft and many TV signals became irritable at times. I think the softness also helps it to blend in well with my Legacy Focus speakers. It's the best I could find under $1,000.

If you have already read my reviews on the Mirage OM-10 and BPS-150i then I am sure you will need no introduction to the splendor that is the Mirage product. The OMC-2 is certainly no exception. It is the first centre channel delivering a true Bi-polar design and is quite simply brilliant. Warm, rich sweet sound with fantastic deep bass response and a seamless match with the omnipolar range make this centre channel a must for home theatre. At $1500 Aust. this centre channel is no featherweight... but it represents the pinnacle of centre channel speakers and outshone everything I compared it to (including some very expensive ESL's). If you are in the market for a centre channel of exceptional quality then do yourself and your ears a favour and audition an OMC-2. Highly reccomended.

What an incredible difference! I have a very large room for my home theater and this center is exactly what it needed. It is very successful in hiding where the sound is coming from. I had a PSB center and it was kind of easy to pinpoint its location. The Mirage is invisible. Everything said by the other reviewers below I agree with. It is a little expensive (again, from my review of the FRx-9, just give the friendly guys at costsheets.com a call for a splendid deal), but well worth the benefit. All in all, I must tip my hat to Mirage again!

well built and great sound

Need good associated equipment to obtain the best sound

I'm writing this review base on a six months listening and going from two systems. At first it did not meet my expectation for a $750 center (retail). I had it biwired to my Yamaha DSP-A1 along with the OM-6. The sound did shift a bit going from left, center and right and believe me I tweaked with everything offered from the DSP-A1 and could not get it 100% timbre match (may be 85%). The sound from this center was not that much dynamic. I recently upgrade my system to separate with the Lexicon MC-1 as a control center along with my 200Wx5 Sherbourn power amp. Oh boy, it is day and night different going from a receiver/integrated amp to separate. Everything just sounds better. This OM-C2 center is starting to shine dynamicly. The timbre match problem is solved, sound stage is now very open and dynamic. Believe me this center was going from under expectation to over expectation. I only paid a little over $400 brand new for this center and for that price it is hard to beat. I love this center so much now that I'd recommend anyone to get it.

If you own a video projector system with screen over 100" then you must listen to this speaker. It's the only one which can produce a huge stage with deep bass, amazing focus, and clear dialogue in high volume. All the other speakers I try (high-end most of them), were uncapable to fill my 8x7 m. room. You must put the speaker at least 1 feet from the rear wall. Best Center Speaker of the Year in the UK magazine "Home cinema choice". I truly agree.

Huge stage, very deep bass, High End sound

Need very good amplifier

I was using the B&W speaker for 1 year until I hear Mirage OM-C2. WOW , what a difference ! This is simple the best center speaker you can buy out there. Just close your main speakers, hear this baby alone, and you will understand why.

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detail and vocal reproduction

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This is an excellent center speaker. It really brings out the detail and dialogue in movies. I have these matched with the OM-10 for my front stage and OM-R2 for surrounds.
I think that this is the best speaker of the bunch. There is a slight tonal difference when panning across the front but not any thing objectionable. The only thing bad is its huge size, on my 50" RP it blends in well and it is very impressive looking but on any thing smaller I think this speaker would look rediculous. This is a must have for home theater.

I am driving OM-C2 and (2) Mirage OM-8's as front speakers w/ a Denon AVR-5700. This receiver is only 140x5. I have found that the center channel "bottoms-out" at moderate to high volumes when configured as a "large speaker". I did not expect this from such a "large" speaker. This is most evident during high action/explosion sceens such as those in The Matrix, Event Horizon and Supernova. According tho the Denon literature, pre-setting the center speaker configuration to "small" stops frequencies of 80Hz and below from getting to the center channel. This seems to have worked quite well. I must agree w/ the other reviewers that with the proper set-up ... this speaker can be the most important part of a seamless front soundstage. I(We) no longer have the embarrasing sound differentiation
of incorrectly matched front/center speakers.