One of the reasons I am drawn to Omegas is the lack of midbass hump, even on his smaller speakers. However, many small two way bass reflex speakers with their comparatively heavy drivers have the midbass hump to make them sound bigger. Some people actually complain about Omegas sounding "thin". Why? It's because these people's ears/brains have been trained for decades to think the midbass hump is normal when actually it's not. It was introduced in the 1960s with the advent of small speakers and high powered solid state. Just listen to a pair of speakers from the previous era (tubes and beer fridge size speakers) and you won't hear the midbass hump. Just attend a live concert and you won't hear that exaggerated bass. Omega speakers sound like the old beer fridge size speakers, but in a smaller package. That's impossible! No, technology and modern materials have made a difference, and audio has made some progress in 50 years.
It's true, the hump can be one of the problems of poorly designed bass reflex where the driver has a lot of cone excursion due to it's weight and/or by the design of it's crossover. One of the best amp types for Omegas has always been the zero negative feedback, class A SET which have very low damping factor, and yet the Omegas and Hoyts I've heard on SETs haven't suffered from the midbass hump or driver flop.
Buying a set of CAMs with Louis' generous return policy will lay any conjecture to rest. Interestingly, when the downsized Super 7 Monitor MK2 came out, no one mentioned the "hump" (and they don't have the "hump"), why is the CAM which has a larger cabinet volume coming under such scrutiny?
As far as Louis' specs being "useless", they're no more useless than those from some company that publishes a zillion detailed specs with graphs and charts. His specs are a general guideline that only a tiny minority have ever complained about. He's not changing, so it's a moot point to even bring it up. The room/setup the speakers end up in make a HUGE difference on the performance of that speaker. Case in point: the Super 3i is rated at 55-20khz, yet the speaker will in some cases go quite a bit below that depending on acoustics, room gain, backing wall proximity etc. On the desktop the Super 3i sounds like there's a sub under the desk, but in some room situations I like to add a sub.
