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Mirage M-3Si Loudspeakers. Now far too big for me. Looking to change to some smaller, quality standmounts (like Dynaudio Focus/Evoke etc.), or maybe smaller floorstanders (Linn Keilidh?) P.X. or straight exchange considered for the right units. If youre reading this, you probably know what youre looking at. If not, google Stereophile Mirage M3Si and read the review from 1992 when they cost $2800 in the US, and around 2500 here. (Thats over 6500 adjusted for inflation!) These Canadian-built speakers are big, and could use a bigger room than I have to put them in, but even confined in our dining room they sound phenomenal. They use a three-way set up with tweeter, midrange and 10 woofer in the front, and very unusually, the same tweeter and midrange firing backwards in-phase, known as a bi-pole. The speaker is built of heavy mdf type wood, covered in an audibly transparent sock and finished with gloss back panels down the sides and on the top as well as the base. They are not your typical monkey-coffins! Ive found they are not particularly sensitive to amplification. Obviously they sound better with quality, powerful source equipment, but they work, and work well, with a small class D 60W amp I bought new from eBay for 45. They sound even better with the Icepower 300W amp I built for them (not included!). The specs say: Description:Floor-standing, three-way, vented-box dynamic loudspeaker with one 10 carbon-filled polypropylene-cone woofer, two 5 carbon fiber/polypropylene-cone midrange drivers, and two 1 titanium-dome tweeters. Crossover frequencies: 350Hz and 2kHz. Frequency response: 30Hz3kHz, 2dB. Impedance: 6 ohms nominal, 4 ohms minimum. Sensitivity: 83dB at 2.83V (anechoic chamber at 1m). Dimensions:52.5 H by 18.1 W by 8.3 D. Weight: 135 lbs. Serial number:004470 Price:$2800/pair (1992) Manufacturer:Mirage, 3641 McNicoll Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario M1X 1G5, Canada. They are excellent working condition with a couple of cosmetic defects which could easily be remedied if you felt inclined. The worst of these by far are the chips in the top, pictured. Id give them 100% for operation and 75% for looks. They were stripped down last year, the rubber surrounds replaced on the midrange drivers where they had perished, the tweeters were cleaned and the ferrofluid replaced. They are now in fine working condition and ready for another 30 years! Id keep them but we are downsizing the house and really wont have room for them. Time for someone else to enjoy what they have to offer! We are in Calne, Wiltshire, about 10 miles from either J16 or J17 depending where youre coming from. They obviously are not going to get posted, so collection or delivery needed. I MAY be able to help deliver if you contact me first...
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