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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.
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accurus
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I am using the Subdudes. However the subdues won't address the issue I am raising which is the side of the cabinets are definitely resonating. You can knock on the cabinet and it is clearly not inert. 
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mapman
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Not saying that it's good or bad but not all cabinets are inert. 

Is is there an audible issue with the sound of the music?  
bondmanp
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I have noticed that as well, accurus. 


My own thoughts on this are:  For these prices, you don't get a Wilson or Magico type cabinet that is completely inert.  John Strohbeen knows this.  Rather than spend lots of money to minimize cabinet resonances, which would raise the prices he would have to charge for his speakers, he voiced them working with the resonances.  Furthermore, a singing cabinet will have less impact on the sound with the drivers sitting completely proud of the cabinet, as they do with the current Walsh line, than such resonances would have on a conventional dynamic box speaker.

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mapman
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Just an educated guess, but i suspect cabinet design for a Walsh style driver is much different than conventional dynamic designs. Remember most of the higher frequency sound exits the cone above the cabinet so less energy is imparted into the cabinet all other things aside. So resonance effects are much different I suspect and the design may lend itself to less issues in general with the cabinet.

In any case, its not something I’ve even thought about before mostly because I have had no reason.

My Dynaudio monitors are very inert with double isolated cabinet design.

But guess which speakers I choose in the end?  

So I find it an interesting question but not sure it matters much as long as the end results satisfy.

Of course as always, YMMV.

Also note that both my Walsh speakers use older refurbed pyramid shaped cabinets not new ones. So I can’t speak to how the newer cabs work compared to the old, but I do know JS in general attempts to tune each to achieve a certain similar sound.
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