Omega Mikro® and Clearview®






Omega Mikro and Clearview products are the result of a 19 year collaboration between Ron Bauman of inSound Inc. and Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade Recordings. Omega Mikro products have earned the reputation as the best products available for reproducing the sound of live music.
We take our motto "Nothing gets you closer to music" very seriously. To keep our ears in top condition
we constantly attend live jazz, country, folk and classical music recording sessions at Mapleshade Records, the hard rock at CBGB's (when it was in NYC (and we used ear plugs), the live jazz at the Blue Note and Blues Alley, and the best of classical performances at Carnegie Hall and the
National Academies of Science. We compare the sound of these live performances to the session recordings as we develop new and improve our existing products to assure that our products are
getting you ever closer to the sound of live music.
Omega Mikro's line-up has products to meet every budget from our $5460 top-of-the-line Ebony Planar Speaker Cable (Positive Feedback On-Line Brutus award 2003) to our Clearview Ultrathin Digital Audio interconnect at $42.50.
All of our products share the same design philosophy and their sound shares a family trait -
a transparency and live quality that our competiton cannot match. Each product is made by hand and designed by careful listening tests coupled with the latest knowledge from the fields of evolutionary neurology, the materials sciences and the physiology of hearing in addition to our core expertize in electrical engineering and mathematics.
We developed three processes to further enhance the sound of our cables and interconnects LCX (Lattice Crystal Alignment), Wave Treatment (WT) and PLUS versions for Clearview products. LCX is an extended immmersion in a cryo refrigerator, with very precisely controlled temperature steps going down in temperature with equally controlled but different sets coming back to room temperature. After reaching room temperature we subject the cables and interconnects to a series of high energy electromagnetic pulses followed by a high flux magnetic field treatment. These three processes significantly smooth the sound while bringing out the sublest musical details. Many of our products come standard with the LCX treatment. Wave Treatment (WT) comprises the high energy electromagnetic pulse treatment followed by the high flux magnetic field but not the cryo immersion of the LCX process. The LCX treatment accelerates the break-in process so that treated products sound great right out of the box with only a small improvement over the first few hours of play.
The PLUS treatment, available only for Clearview products, is a shortened version of the cryo immersion process we developed for the LCX treatment. The PLUS treatment, after several hours of break-in, results in significant smoothing and detail retrieval compared to the same product not PLUS treated.
All of our standard products come with a 30 day money back guarantee.
We have between us over 90 years experience in the hi fi business. We invite our customers to call us
at 202 965 5320, 10AM to 8 PM EST daily, for advice in installing and using our products and for improving the sound of their systems. If you plan to be in the Washington DC area we invite you to schedule an appoinment to meet us and to hear our reference system. Bring a favorite CD or LP.
Consignment Shop and Warehouse Sale items can be ordered by phone with a credit card as can the Passive Attenuators. All new Omega Mikro and Clearview products can be ordered by credit card either by phone or by shopping cart.