OHm micro walsh series...

Jer,
MicroWalsh speakers will play fine at low levels, but I'm sure it will be hard to resist playing them moderately loud once you've tried it. I was quite surprised myself, how loud they can play clearly once we'd built the first prototypes and brought them to our home testing theater/listening room. Though they are small speakers, and designed more for moderate volume level listening in apartments/condos etc, or as surround/rear speakers to go with larger Ohm Walsh mains.

In response to Sean: No, they are walsh type speakers, omni directional over much of the frequency range.

I was superise to see this thread get bumped up from one year ago. I posted on this thread almost a year ago but now also have the Micro Walsh. Omni directional is what what I prefer and to my ears the Micro Walsh sound bigger than they are. They are here for keeps.

Ohm's own literature / info on their current line of speakers clearly states that these speakers are NOT omni-directional. They may sound more "diffuse" than other designs though due to the lack of direct radiation from the inverted mid-woofer. Other than that, the only "Walsh" driver that i know of that would fit inside of one of those "mesh cans" would be a Walsh tweeter as used by Infinity back in the 1970's.

As to the Morrison's, they are based on Stuart Hegeman's designs. The manner that the woofer is loaded within the cabinet is different from any other design that i've seen. The easiest way to describe it would be to think of a combo transmission line design mixed with internal Helmholts resonators. This approach has a LOT of potential from what i can tell based on the limited reading i've done about it. Sean
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Last spring, I ended up getting a pair of micro talls, the matching center channel, and Ohm satellites for my home theater system. The wide soundstage and 3D sound of the talls are great for movies and the center channel is superb.
I listen to music through them often and it always surprises me how loud those little micro talls can play.

A couple of other manufactures that make nice omnis....

http://www.cd-konzert.com/loudspeaker.htm
http://www.german-physiks.com/
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