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


Hi,

I'd love to hear the impressions of people who've actually spent some time with these speakers to share their sense of their plusses and minuses. Mapman here on Audiogon is a big fan, and has shared lots on them, but I'm wondering who else might be familiar with them.
rebbi
The first piece on this CD is a good demonstration of how well the Ohm's can reproduce the sounds of a pipe organ.
http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=30724
Mapman,
I spoke to John at Ohm the other day to let him know that I'd sold the Totems and would be deciding down the road which set of drivers to keep. Since you'd asked awhile ago what John did to the modified drivers, I asked him, and he said, “Boosted the the treble response a bit,” or words to that effect. My neurotic side is bugged by this a little: if the Ohm's are known for their neutrality, is my pair somehow now less neutral? Or is it a matter of how they play in my particular room? Anyway, that's craziness! But I will be interested to see how they sound by comparison when I put the original drivers back in.
As for trading up to the 100-S3's, John told me that the only real difference is that the bigger speaks will ”play four times louder and go 1/2 an octave deeper“ than the MWT's. John said the usual deal is to give 100% trade in value within the first 6 months of ownership if someone wants to trade up the line. I'll see... :-)
The switches on the Walsh 5's essentially allow +/- 3db adjustments in four ranges: low bass, mid bass, midrange and treble.

These are for purpose of adjusting the response to room acoustics or personal hearing preference.

Sounds like the new drivers are more or less like tipping up the treble using the switches on the 5's. I do this on my right Ohm 5 but not my left to help adjust for the crazy acoustics of my L shaped room. That's the main reason I got the 5's instead of the 300's.

Unfortunately, Ohm does not offer these adjustments on the smaller models these days (they used to years ago ).

Decisions, decisions.