The MIRAMA's are here!!

Courtesy of Kevin Moore, Home Audio, New Zealand

Hi Dan and Paul,

 I was Invited for another Mirama 'set-up session', last night, at Scott Roberts place.

All part of the customer after care but also very enjoyable too.

See pic of Scott using a calibrated mic' (see pic) and running REW software on his PC.

We spent half an hour doing FFT sweeps and adjusting his huge REL sub (see pic) to

cancel out a known 'dip' in his listening room.

 Scott will continue to fine tune the Mirama location and sub settings, but he said

that the response was already 'ball park' without too much effort. (a good sign, he felt).

Scott left his, now rather tiny looking, Wilson benesch 'Torus' sub, turned off,

To simplify set up. Anyway, the bass drivers on the Miramas dwarf the 15" driver on the WB sub!! 

 Then, the rest of the evening was spent evaluating the very expensive pair of very large speakers which had been procured without the usual obligatory listening sessions!

I'm sure that Scott had a few unspoken questions.

Would he like them? Would they work in his room? Would the 'slight' bass reservations, mentioned in the review, be an Issue?

We kicked off with my copy of: 

Poulenc, Concerto for organ strings and timpani on the RCA Victor 'living stereo' label.

A Superbly recorded album, If i say so myself.

 We noted a startling separation of Instruments, which were accurately portrayed in both 'size' (not unrealistically large) and location, in the sound stage.

  The organ now had a few 'extra' bass pipes, than previously heard!

 The lowest, sustained notes, were properly sized and neither too 'dry' or 'warm, but sort of mildly unnerving in their resemblance to an earth quake!

Kate Bush, 'the kick inside', portrayed the singer as human sized and with an appropriately lovely voice, with well placed and easily followed backing instruments.

Quite a feat from such large enclosures which you might expect to make singer appear too large, but they don't at all.

Given Scott's music tastes, the evening progressed to my Japanese first pressing

Of Led Zep' 'The song remains the same', live album  (probably the best recorded L Z album?) 'No quarter' showed what the Miramas (like no other speakers I've ever heard) can really do. Tight but oh so tuneful bass guitar and keyboard. No sense of any bass slowness or 'overhang, just 'visceral' but well controlled, low bass and stupendous

Guitar sounds, oh and the singing was 'OK' too. (well as good as RP ever sounded)

We ended up with Scott's original first pressing of Black Sabbath 'Paranoid'

Seriously, if you want to sell container loads of Miramas, just play 'War Pigs' at 

A reasonable volume! I thought Scott was just going to expire, out of 

shear happiness.

We agreed that we just didn't don't understand Alan Sircom's 'slight' reservations!

Maybe he just needed to hear the Miramas driven by a  pair of Halcro amps?

One of the many things that takes some getting used to about the Miramas, was their

rather 'disconcerting stillness'?

We are all used to speakers, with drivers that visibly move when the volume is turned up. You tend to 'associate' the music with the drivers and the speakers are seen to

Be working.

 The Miramas just 'stand there' totally unmoved by whatever music is playing at whatever volume! Again and again we both commented on the almost complete

absence of any apparent movement of any of the drivers! 

The huge sound stage, with Instruments and singers spread across the width of the room, seemed to be completely 'divorced' from the speaker enclosures/

Again, no mean feat with such large enclosures!

Scott couldn't thank me enough, at the end of the evening, and says that the Miramas 'have exceeded his expectations'. He's now a relieved and very happy, Graham Audio, Speaker owner. 

Oh, I should mention that I couldn't resist posting a picture (of the Miramas) and message (without any names or places) to the Graham Audio, Facebook, owners group.

Should I have asked first? Hope that's OK.

Best Regards and keep up the good work

Kevin Moore