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

Ult,

In general, the ohms might be worth a try a tad closer to the rear and side walls than otherwise if the walls are more acoustically damped. Sounds like you are on the right track though.

My 5s sit about 4 to 5 feet out from the rear wall which has a doublesliding glass door with vertical blinds behind them. Walls are standard drywall with 2 foot square acoustic panels at prime side wall reflection points, speakers also 3 feet or so from sidewalls. They fire down the length of my L shaped room, about 34 feet long. I often prefer opening the verticals and exposing the glass doors. No bad effects as many might fear in general.

I'd let john know if you think the speakers are not wired as they should beand see what he says.

Thanks Map. I'll be livening up the room this week. I'll talk to John, but I think it's just a black red binding post issue. Things came right into focus when I swapped wires, and nothing else changed. A good start, and it only gets better as things settle in, right?

I am second day in, (32 hrs), and they are staying. Fantastic. The wife agrees. So, covered on both ends. She's off to grab a CD that she wants to hear. Inception in right now. Pirates earlier, plus Aja Steely, Tori Amos, Sherlock Holmes. Doesn't matter. It's all huge and enveloping. It's loud, but we can talk to each other without really raising our voices. Centered when needed, but big, wide.

I've moved them closer and out. Me like.

I have found that I had my room treated for Merlins, so I had damped the room a bit (to offset their "personailty")... I found as I removed some of the Echotunes/roomtunes/cornertunes devices, that live sound returned, that air returned, while still keeping that quad/stat cohesiveness to the huge stage... Also removing some of the roomtunes helped the 2c3d thing to "pop" into place. The only room treatments left, are those in the lower half of the rear wall corners, BELOW the Ohm canister - I found any room treatments above the canister to damp things down too much here.

Also, like others in this thread have mentioned, I have the speakers level, and level with each other. Makes a big difference here with the 2C3D thing also. Getting the canisters to fire at the same angle and height. All walls just melt, with my Ohm's 6-7 feet apart, firing straight out into room, 3' from side walls, pulled well out from rear walls (using the Cardas method for speaker placement), 11' to listening position (good sized room).

Like Ultimatezap found, just a huge stage. and I have found I cannot make them sound un-musical - and even when crazy loud on big symphonies or metal, you can still hear the person next to you.

"It's loud, but we can talk to each other without really raising our voices."

That's a very good omen!!!