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It seems as though there has never been an "official" Energy subwoofer owners thread. How that could have happened is beyond me -- seeing as there are so many people own them -- but that appears to be the situation.
it's because all of that discussion falls into the Energy Owners Thread in the Speakers sub-forum.
That said, if this thread continues, I do believe you should merge Energy and Mirage. Your list of "matches" is really incomplete especially if you look back historically. Energy and Mirage were "sister" companies under API (along with Athena, now gone).
Some of the newer Energy products (ESW-C10 for example) don't really have matches but that's because Mirage hasn't produced any new subwoofer products in years. Since the Klipsch buyout of these two companies (and the subsequent Audiovox buyout) Mirage and Energy's product offerings have been somewhat crippled, which is why you are seeing these older products (like S10.3) sold at such discount.
If you look at Mirage's subwoofer offerings at their official site, all of the models (the micro MM line, the mid-level Omnis and the high-end Prestige) are all several years old now and all of them have exact Energy matches.
http://www.miragespeakers.com/subwoofers/
On your list of matches, you may have missed several because Energy no longer lists these older models as current products whereas Mirage still has them on their website. I'll fill in some gaps for you....
Newer Products: None of these will have Mirage analogues for the above-mentioned reasons.
- The Energy "Power" series are brand-new, garbage offerings from Audiovox that are meant to go with their soundbars and computer speakers. They can be safely ignored in a consumer forum like this one.
- The budget "ESW" subs (like ESW-C10) are also fairly new and come after Mirage stopped putting out new sub products.
- The newer "Veritas" sub (VSW-10) is sort of a redesigned ESW-V sub, for which there was an 8" and 10" version that were direct analogues to the Mirage Prestige.
- The EW-100 is simply a rebranded Klipsch KW-100 that came out of the Klipsch buyout.
"Current" Mirage Products: All of these have Energy counterparts...
- Mirage MM6 = Energy ESW-M6
- Mirage MM8 = Energy ESW-M8
- Mirage Omni S8 = Energy S8.3
- Mirage Omni S10 = Energy S10.3
- Mirage Omni S12 = Energy S12.3
- Mirage Prestige S8 = Energy ESW-V8
- Mirage Prestige S10 = Energy ESW-V10
Plus if you look at the "Nanosub" that comes with the Mirage Nanosats it appears to be nearly identical to the Energy ESW-8 that came with the Take Classic setup.
"Older" Mirage Products: Some of these had direct Energy counterparts, for example the Mirage FRX series was the same as the Energy e:XL offerings (e.g. FRX-S8 = Energy e:XL-S8, FRX-S10 = Energy e:XL-S10, etc.). Mirage did have some unique offerings with their "bipolar" sub lines (BPS) though, and there wasn't any Mirage counterpart to the Energy SX.2 line that came in between the original "S" subs (e:XL) and the SX.3 subs.
Hope that helps!