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

Mamboni,

Very cool. Congratulations! Looking forward to your impressions!

Mamboni, where in the world did your wife hide those big things? That would be a rather nice surprise! Looking forward to reading about your impressions.

I am going to talk to John once their end-of-year shutdown is over about getting the 3000 series drivers for my Walsh 3's. I had been listening to the 2000 series drivers mounted to one of my friend's Walsh 2's, very nice indeed. Now that I have a very nice set of 3XO cabinets, the 2000's will be going back to John for the 3000's.

I have to say the newer drivers are a very nice upgrade from the original drivers! Much smoother and not so "peaky" in the treble region. Bass is a bit tighter and deeper. A high recomendation if you have an older pair of Walsh's that haven't been back to Ohm for a tune-up.

Would love to have a pair of 5000's someday, but the 3000 should fit my listening room very well. Enjoy your music, and Happy Holidays to all! Tim

She hid them in the dining room - I never go in there. The family sups in the kitchen. I bought only the head unit upgraded drivers, not the entire loudspeakers with cabs mind you!

After I posted that, I got to thinking that you probably only got the driver upgrade. Those are still some pretty decent-sized packages! Again, what a nice surprise! Did you get new grills or will your older ones fit?

I am really looking forward to the 3000's, based on what I had heard with the 2000's in my room, the 3000 should be even better yet!

I tried the 2000's on top of my 3XO cabinets, but the top driver board that comes with the 2000 upgrade wasn't quite big enough to work properly. I could have made a new top board, but in the end I just thought it would be best to just go for the 3000's. Hopefully that will be just a drop-in replacement versus the OW2/2000 new driver board.

My initial plan was to have my own pair of OW2's, but one of them got destroyed by UPS(Oops), so most of my testing/listening was done with a friend's pair of old 2's. Glad he was able to do without them for awhile.

Am thinking about maybe getting a pair of micro-talls at a later time for my rear surrounds. Will see. Enjoy those new 5000's! Tim

Congrats, Mamboni! Enjoy the 5000 drivers.

Frazeurl: FWIW, one of the reasons I went with the Ohm Walsh speakers is that the entire Walsh series is designed to have very similar sound, just scaled for different cubic-footage listening rooms. Of course, I would expect peak output level and bass extension to increase with size, but otherwise, the entire X000 series is supposed to be pretty similar.

I have a question for Ohm Walsh owners: I am going to write John about this, but lately (about 2.5 months into 4 month trial period), I am noticing a bid of forwardness in the low-to-mid midrange, I would guess about 300-400Hz. It shows up on many, but not all, recordings. It is especially noticeable on piano and horn content. Some notes in this range project out in amplitude above the rest, sounding forced, strained, and a bit distorted. Is this another temporary break-in stage? My 2000s have seasoned dramatically over the 2.5 months I have had them. Some treble sharpness and upper-mid glare have smoothed out very nicely, and macro-dynamic range has improved a bit, too. However, I am still hoping the dynamic punch will get better still. But this issue in the lower-mids is quite disturbing, lending the 2000s a forced sound that is not very natural. My big fear is that it is cabinet-related - a resonance issue. However, I don't recall this being a problem until the last week or two, so that implies it is a break-in issue. As long as it is temporary, like the upper-mid sharpness that came and went in a couple of weeks, I should be okay with the 2000s. This issue is unfortunate, as in other aspects, these speakers are incredible.

I appreciate any thoughts you guys might have.