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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
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In addition to the crossover electronics. Which should be pretty simple I think there is also what is called the "sub bass activator" circuit which is used to help extend the bass.  I'm assuming the latest x000 models still use that.   Js would know.  It's a circuit sold as an upgrade to older models as well.  I bought a pair when I refurbed my old Ohm Ls. 
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http://ohmspeaker.com/news/sba-what-is-sub-bass-and-how-do-you-activate-it/


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Mapman,
Yes, that is probably what it is.
Thanks!
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crossover most likelycontained in teh can with the drivers.

SBA can work off the full range signal feed into the can.

With my 5 series 3 drivers on the OHM F cabinets, everything was in the can as best I recall from when I first connected those.
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"Even Jim Smith (Get Better Sound) rarely mentions changing the sound coming out of the speakers, but focuses primarily on changing the room to fit the speakers. That thinking seems backwards to me, but I'm just a lowly mechanical engineer...or am I missing something important here?" Quote from t8kc-

Just to pick this thought up a bit, I think what happens quite often, and even I have been guilty of said thing, is that sometimes we try to "fix" what we think are sound issues with different gear. The thinking behind this is that it will somehow fix the problem, when in reality, the issue could very well be the room itself and poor acoustics-probably more times than not. While changing tone controls etc. in effect changing the sound coming out of the speakers, rarely will the changes given by ordinary tone controls really fix issues. It might make some things more pleasing to some degree, but room acoustics tend to go far deeper than what we can fix this way.

While I don't know if this is exactly what Jim's thinking is here, as I have not read any of his book, it makes sense to me. Get the room as acoustically "fixed" as possible, then work with the gear/speaker side of things. Of course this also brings up differing means of treating the room depending on the type of speaker to some degree-such as Magnepans, Omni's or front driven speakers. Even though the basics can apply to every one of these, each one also may have a slightly differing means of going the next step further.

The nice thing is that in my opinion, most Ohm speakers are a bit easier to work with room-wise. I always called them a more "friendly or real-world" speaker system. While certainly benefits can be had by taking the room acoustics and setup to the utmost degree, I find they just work fairly well with minimal fuss overall.

For what it is worth!

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