Mirage OMD-5 Bookshelf speakers

Mirage OMD-5 are small, luxuriously finished in black piano lacquer speaker systems and differ by horseshoe-shaped cross section and top edge, beveled toward the front panel. Midbass unit (the diffuser with the diameter of 135 mm is made of polymer with addition of titanium particles) with new patented ridged rubber suspension is placed on it. The tweeter's dome is made of pure titanium. In turn, there is an acoustic lens above it, which provides a polar pattern close to circular.

Nonlinear tonal balance is the main sign of all speaker systems with non-directional radiation. This is because our organs of hearing have to deal not only with sound, emitted by speakers, but also with its many reflections, the behavior of which is hard to be predicted (one reflections come earlier, others - later and some reach even in distorted way, losing a part of the spectrum due to the absorption). I got the most smooth, dynamical and dense sound from OMD-5, installing the systems at the distance of 20-40 cm from the wall and more than a meter from the floor. As you can see, OMD-5 are ideally suited for work on a bookshelf. But when these babies are on the racks away from walls, the result turns out to be much more interesting. Sound stage is so enlarged that it seems that it goes far beyond the borders of a room. At the same time the scaling is made correctly - audio sources are not blurred but save their "weight"; there are accurate contours and proper placement according to the plans. Overall dynamics of the playback in this setup is slightly weakened, but micro-dynamics, to my mind, becomes better. Mirage OMD-5 convey well complex timbres, disclose mass of musical and secondary details. The only thing you have to get used to is typical for all omnipolar "mirages" nonlinear top, in which the frequencies within 3-6 kHz are weakened and neighbourhood areas are allocated.