To Doug Schneider,
Did you remove the Mirage OMD-28 jumpers when you had them? In your experience, did the OMD-28s work best single-wired, biwired, or triwired? What cables did you use?
Thanks,
Emerson Foster
I think that I get so many questions about Mirage’s OMD-28 speakers because I was one of the few who reviewed them (on SoundStage! A/V, a legacy site that is archived now but still available for viewing). That’s surprising, really, because they’re incredibly good and I thought more reviewers would have been able to get their hands on them when they were current. In fact, this is still one of my favorite speaker designs.
About the review: Mirage made no stipulations on how the speakers were to be used for the review, so I went with the assumption that single-wiring them would be fine. To me, that was also the preferred way to review them, because I feel that most people will likely single-wire the OMD-28s to save some money -- one set of cables is obviously cheaper than two or three (assuming they’re all the same kind, of course). I didn’t biwire or triwire them to find out if I could hear any differences.
The jumpers used were the ones Mirage supplied with the speakers. I used Nirvana S-L speaker cables most of the time, which have been my reference for over ten years. However, just because I didn’t biwire or triwire them doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try. Just remember to remove the jumpers if you use them this way. And if you do decide to try it, please write back to me and tell me what your experiences are. . . . Doug Schneider
