[NIGHTFALL1970]

Why no video on the X-Omni Towers? They are the least written about of your speakers. Why not do a video about them?

[Early B.]

It looks weird, it isn't wife-friendly, and it's a dust magnet, but it's a budget-level OB-sounding speaker. Many years ago, I owned the previous version, which had a Neo tweeter. I suggest installing a speaker grille to give it some more quirkiness.     

[E-Zee]

I built some upgraded X-Omni crossovers for one of Danny's customers a while back and had quite a bit of discussion with the customer about it, since he had several other X-series speakers in use to compare against.  His use for the X-Omni's were in the rear of his home theater as rear surrounds, where he was very happy with their performance. 

He had previously experimented with them as front channels.  What I gathered from the discussion is that the upward firing woofer caused them to be sensitive to placement.  Distance from ceiling, back and side walls, was all relevant.  If placed correctly they could do a great job of filling the space and sounding larger than they were.  If a user had no flexibility in placement, then they didn't reach their potential.   It sounded like he was taking advantage of additional gain by using them as rear surrounds, at a distance from the wall that added additional low to mid frequency gain. His expressed result was that they threw a large sound stage and performed rear duty in a way that worked very well for him. 

I'm sure Danny or someone else will add to this.  I don't have my own experience with it, so only able to share that 3rd person anecdotal. 

Elon
Ezspeakersolutions.com

[yamaha626]

I owned 2 pairs of the X-Omni's, one from the AV123 inventory clear-out and a 2nd that I purchased as a kit from GR with the upgraded crossovers.
I used them in a basement surround system where the kids had video games and a ping pong table. My 2 young boys could take anything they got their hands on and turn it into a weapon so I bought my first pair for 2 reasons...1) I was always super curious about them, had never heard omni directional speakers before and 2) They were cheap enough that if the boys did destroy one or both of them, the financial loss wouldn't be painful. I bought the 2nd pair because I was astonished at how much I enjoyed these speakers. 
Personally, I loved them. I never found their appearance to be a drawback, but they are quite room dependent. They definitely need at least 3' from any wall and I had installed a drop ceiling in this basement, so the ceiling height was fairly low (maybe 8'). Also because boys are boys, I found soft cubicle walls and installed then about 3' from the basement cement walls...making essentially a room within a room. What I discovered was interesting...that because of the drop ceiling and the soft walls, I vastly improved the room acoustically and the X-Omni's really thrived in that environment. I have never enjoyed any subsequent pair of speakers as much as I enjoyed the X-Omni's but when the kids left the nest, we downsized and the new place was not X-Omni friendly, so I sold them.

[Danny Richie]

What others have already posted are spot on.

If placed three feet from any wall, they can be magical. They are extremely overlooked for what they bring to the table. They can really fill a room with a balanced sound that really exceeds the expectations of the speaker. Performance wise, they are one of the best values out there.

The cons are that they do need to be away from boundaries just like any other omni design. They also are a hard sell because they don't look right for most people.