Omnidirectional Speakers - What's cool

[JonFo]

OK, if you have ML's, you are already in the club of the 'big soundstage' with the dipole nature of the ESL's.
So how about looking at what Omni-directional speakers can do. These give very wide soundstages and can be ideal in rooms that do not lend themselves to 'ideal' positioning of box or dipole radiators.

The most amazing omni’s are the MBL’s, but there is already a thread on those here, so I won’t rehash.

There are quite a few designs for Omni’s that use Dynamic speakers, some are quite beautiful. Once again, a German firm does top notch work. These are from Duevel

What else is out there? (Robin, care to take up the Easter egg hunt here?

 

[sleepysurf]

Duevel also makes another interesting design... the Planet, pictured below.

Their entire line can be seen at...
http://www.cd-konzert.com/loudspeaker.htm

 

[JonFo]

Sleepysurf, you just beat me to it, here are some more pics of the Planets:

 

[theWB]

OK, if you have ML's, you are already in the club of the 'big soundstage' with the dipole nature of the ESL's.
So how about looking at what Omni-directional speakers can do. These give very wide soundstages and can be ideal in rooms that do not lend themselves to 'ideal' positioning of box or dipole radiators.

What else is out there? (Robin, care to take up the Easter egg hunt here?

Back in the 70's I owned a pair of BIC Soundspans I believe the model number was TPR600.They were omni directional speakers, the woofer fired down into the cabinet and the midrange and tweeter were also mounted horizontally put fired up,The tweeter was mounted above the midrange in a deflector for the midrange and there was another deflector above the tweeter to throw the sound out in a 360 degree pattern.The imaging and soundstage of these speakers was amazing at the time but the sound quality was just average.

At that time I always drooled over the Ohm Walsh another Omni directional speaker but could never afford it.

Wish I had pics, will leave the search up to Robin

 

[Charliemike]

I have heard Mirage Omnisats at Chipotle and despite a REALLY bad listening environment, those speakers really amazed me. They'd probably make lousy surrounds but if I was doing whole house audio, I'd definitely consider them (unless of course, I could afford Passages or Tickets LOL).

 

[kach22i]

From what I've read about the Melior/Musetex speakers omni-directional speakers are even a bigger headache acoustically.

 

[Beat_Dominator]

Don't forget about Ohm/Walsh designs

I'll try to dig up a picture.

 

[Peter Hogan]

Don't forget about Ohm/Walsh designs

I'll try to dig up a picture.

One of my favorites was the Ohm "F", with the Walsh driver.

 

[wink]

One of my favorites was the Ohm "F", with the Walsh driver.

What ever happened to those guys? My brother had a set of four running in a quadraphonic set up.....Ohm/Walsh II's I believe

 

[socialxray]

Those planet speakers would be cool if the big global was painted like the Earth and the little one was painted like the Moon. Oh! And then mount an Enterprise, Galactica or Empiral Battle Crusier orbiting the Earth! That would be seriously cool.

 

[Pcar928fan]

Those planet speakers would be cool if the big global was painted like the Earth and the little one was painted like the Moon. Oh! And then mount an Enterprise, Galactica or Empiral Battle Crusier orbiting the Earth! That would be seriously cool.

DUDE, an Imperial battle Cruiser chasing a Blockade runner like the opening of SW:ANH! Wouldn't that be SUPER COOL! I might pass on the MBL 101's for something like that! YEA BABY!

OR, get this, you could to the small one as the Death Star orbiting Endor!! Then have a Superstar destroyer near the death star! That would be SOOO COOL! Yea, I am a Star Wars geek...saw it when it came out when I was 12 and have never NOT loved it!

 

[JonFo]

There's this tall Fontana that seems OK for a surround:

 

[JonFo]

Wolcott Audio Omnisphere: