Mirage SM3?

notmydecision
notmydecision Posts: 10
in Vintage Speakers
Anyone with knowledge of these speakers? Not much info out there. Bit of a drive to test them, so want to make sure it's worth the trip.

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  • odcics2
    odcics2 Posts: 340
    Er, this is a Polk site.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,054
    edited January 18
    The early Mirage loudspeakers were pretty darned nice, although I haven't encountered the SM-3.
    Per the reply immediately above -- yeah, @notmydecision, you might want to ask someplace like audiokarma, audioasylum, or hifihaven.

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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 3,898
    I believe Mirage was the first Canadian speaker manufacturer to take advantage of the basic loudspeaker research done by the Canadian National Research Counsil (NRC). They did extensive research in acoustics and made the information, free of charge, to Canadian companies. Generally speaking I always found Mirage speakers to be very good sounding.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,054
    edited January 18
    @SeleniumFalcon - I believe your recollection is correct (FWIW).
    Had a pair of SM-1 for a while. Quite beguiling. Note the thick felt around the tweeter (similar to the OP's SM-3) -- the grille was made to mesh with the foam, so to speak, in an effort to control dispersion and/or diffraction. Almost embarrassingly simple two-ways, but a nice, open, transparent sound.
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    I rehabbed a pair of the small SM-4 for a friend when we lived in MA. Also quite nice. I don't think I have a photo of them. At the least, I don't have one handy.
    Refoamed the woofers and replaced (retrofit) MR drivers (one of the originals had an open VC and I wasn't having any luck sourcing an original driver) in a pair of later (and apparently well-respected) L-750 belonging to the builder of our current house some years back, too.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,176
    I thought I had a pair, but it was just a . . . . nope. Not gonna say it.
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  • notmydecision
    notmydecision Posts: 10
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The early Mirage loudspeakers were pretty darned nice, although I haven't encountered the SM-3.
    Per the reply immediately above -- yeah, @notmydecision, you might want to ask someplace like audiokarma, audioasylum, or hifihaven.

    Did think about that, but not much info available on there in related posts and the lot of you on here seem to be more active at the moment.
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