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
" his experience runs a little counter to posts in this thread about the need for high current to really make them sing.

What to make of this?"

You may not be pushing the limits of volume and dynamics possible with the OHMs with a Fisher tube receiver, but the end results might still be quite pleasant.

I lot of people run OHMs off of gear that is perhaps less than optimal and remain quite satisfied. Its all relative.
I'm sure that the "jaw drop" thing was a response to the omni presentation. You'll get that effect straight away and it does make its mark. It's only after you "listen through" that striking first impression that you get to things like dynamics, tonal balance et. al. I suspect that most listeners will find the Ohms really impressive at first listen, even if they're poorly matched in a system. If they're well matched, then you've got a good thing going for the long term.

Just speculating.

Marty
Its true that omni speakers produce a distinctly different class of sound that can wow people immediately regardless because the presentation is so inherently unique. Most may never bother or feel need to move forward from their initial setup at that point I would imagine because they have already accomplished a major change for the better in their sound that is hard to match otherwise.
Maybe I was spoiled? Funny, but the soundstage aspects of the Walsh 2000s that I bought last year were not what made them keepers for me. Sure, the soundstage is huge and holographic, but properly set up (which mine were), the Vandersteen 1Cs I had before also could do some amazing things with soundstage reproduction. As a result, the first thing I noticed when I fired up the Ohms was not a bigger soundstage, but an amazing truth in timbre that the 1Cs lacked. Now, I have heard many loudspeakers that tend to bunch the sound around each speaker. If you are used to that kind of soundstage, then, heck yeah, the Ohms will knock you out of your chair with their soundstage abilities.

As time has passed, I have noticed some differences in the soundstage: Overall, the soundstage is not as far into the room as was the Vandys, different, not better or worse. That said, I think the Ohms do a better job of reflecting what is in the recording, soundstage-wise. The Vandys, I think, kind of created a lot of soundstage fireworks, whether they were on the record or not. Interestingly, the new McIntosh preamp has changed the soundstage presentation of the 2000s. Mostly for the better, with a little more forwardness in the presentation, and a bit more depth.
Some good feedback here. Thanks as it helps put things into some perspective.