Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em?

accurus - I am very anxious to hear what you think diffussion does for the Ohms.  I am just guessing, but it makes sense to me that diffusion would benefit the Ohms much more than absorbtion.  Absorbtion seems counterintuitive to an omni or quasi-omni speaker.  Can I ask how much the polyfusors set you back?  Unlike foam wedges, decent diffusion panels seem pretty pricey.

bondmanp - The polyfusors ran $270 + shipping for the pair. Down the road I am going to pick up 8 of the gridfusors to place near the ceiling and according to GIK that should pretty much do it for my room needs minus me doing some crazy stuff that the wife won't allow and frankly with the experimentation that I did place the speakers so close sounded bad.

I agree with you bondmanp that diffusion makes a lot of sense with the Ohms as they are relying on sound bounching around the room to help create their holographic imaging. In my own setup everything that I have purchased for the room has had some level of diffusion behind it minus the bass traps going behind my listening. All of the corner traps have difusion panels in them and the polyfusors obviously have difusion. I have tried removing the difusion panels and the room just goes dead. Things image like a microscope, but you sense of scale and image size is gone. 

Having an extended listening session with the Ohms this evening and I find myself again amazed how musical these speakers. Recordings I haven't listened to in years due to their poor sound on the Magnepans sound great in the Ohms. Certainly some albums sound better then others but all are enjoyable. That is a testament to a good loudspeaker and some I have not heard many speakers pull off regardless of price.

Accurus you're hearing similar results as I it seems.   Pretty scary.  😉

I often wonder if others just switched to Ohms and put in just half the effort you have to let them shine if that might just finally put an end to the elusive goal many seek which is to make all music sound enjoyable. 

Here's a very unique Ohm Walsh thing that I've probably mentioned before but am hearing clearly again right now and I think is very interesting.  

Listening to to mono recordings in this case The Beatles cover of Money on "Meet the Beatles". 

The music is focused dead center on my front wall with enough ambience wall to wall to make one question its a mono recording being heard.   Very live sounding!  

Thing is is in my L shaped room. With F5s along the long wall at the base of the L facing into the length of the room,. The left speaker is in the center of the wall where the soundstage is focused and further from my listening position closer to the right wall about halfway down the length of the L than the right speaker which is about 3-4 feet from right wall essentially in front of my listening position .   The soundstage tends to stay focused at dead center of the ~22 foot wall forming the base of the L no matter where the speakers are along the wall pretty much. 

Very unique.   Makes even average mono recordings sound audiophile worthy and a very unique trick. An omni thing in general I suspect.