simonrex22

I was at best buy trying to learn about all the surround sound stuff. I really like the Mirage Nanostat satellite speakers. Are there any other speakers like this. Im not really sure what or where to search. Ive seen the type advertised, they are the ones that like "radiate" the sound. Any help would be appreciated. Also, can i buy speakers seperately or do you have to buy the whole system?

RogueGypsy

It looks like those are an omnipole reflective design and are for sale individually or as a package.

There aren't many others like them available, those that are, are much more expensive. You can achieve the similar results with a bi-polar design if you can mount them a minimum of 3' from the wall in front or back of the speaker. Mirage makes Bipoles as do several other manufacturers.

Just a note on speakers themselves. In a system, they should be 70%-80% of the cost of the entire system. They are the least expensive way to improve sound quality and make the biggest overall difference in sound quality.

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Shadowex3

First let me engage in some internet partisan vitriol, feel free to skip this since it's not of any real substance: Best Buy Isn't. No highs, no lows, it must be a bose. Steelseries, the speaker so bad they refuse to publish their THD. Audiophile Quality(tm): If any of it were true then James Randi would owe someone a million dollars.
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Ok now that I've got that out of my system the meat of my post is that speakers should be only part of your system, and that without good sources and components your stuff will still sound bad (or at least not as good). Speaking just of speakers though you should look for things like good warranty support, good objectively verifiable statistics (thd, parts quality, frequency response etc), and specifically look for speakers which LACK anything even so much as hinting at anything remotely associated with "audiophile" anything.

That last one is easily as important as the first two since with audio equipment there's an enormous Emperors New Clothes thing going on. A lot of the worst equipment out there makes the biggest claims of superiority, usually accompanied by claims which are physically impossible or nonsensical. Actual quality hardware will generally cost a LOT less than "audiophile" anything, and rather than make nonsense but impressive sounding claims will simply list objectively verifiable indicators of quality, things like THD and impedance which can be measured.

If you want a crash course in what to avoid, basically anything remotely resembling what These Guys say about cables. You'll hear a lot of similar stuff about speakers but with the names changed around a bit. I really would love to be joking or making a big deal out of nothing, but unfortunately I'm not.

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simonrex22

Looking for something like this. Where the tweeter is raised up and the sound radiates....Other Image Views View 1&h=387


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