I do not recall reading of many confirmed cases EVER of home gear delivering down to 10 hz, even more so especially with the modern trend towards smaller speakers and drivers and for a cost that many might afford.
Its rare to hear any reports of anything useful happening below 20hz. That’s traditionally considered the useful low range for human hearing.
I can only say that the OHMs are very robust and have always taken any load I’ve thrown at them most effortlessly. My current Bel Canto amps are rated 500w/ch into 8 ohm, doubling into 4.
Modern digital room correction products like Dirac no doubt up the ante in regards to what one might throw at a pair of speakers. Also the best modern amplifiers are capable of pushing speakers harder and with less distortion than ever before. Power demands increase exponentially at lower frequencies. Most amps would still likely give up the goat trying to deliver a flat response at higher volume at those low frequencies as well.
So its just not something that one expects to occur very often but would certainly seem withing the realm of possibility especially in a smaller room with a robust amp and digital processing to reduce peaks in the lower bass region. Published frequency response charts of older OHM Walsh models that I have seen seemed to suggest the bass hump typically associated with most any ported design like most OHM Walsh models. Newer models with built in powered subs are acoustically sealed not ported I believe. Imagine what those might do even off many less robust external amplifiers used, including tube amps if preferred!
Accurus thanks so much for sharing your findings. You provide a lot of useful new objective information about the OHMs and their capabilities. Few people take the time and initiative to leverage them to their max and share their findings as you have.
Dirac is definitely moving up on my audio wish list especially as I move more towards using commercial computers as a digital music source.
Its rare to hear any reports of anything useful happening below 20hz. That’s traditionally considered the useful low range for human hearing.
I can only say that the OHMs are very robust and have always taken any load I’ve thrown at them most effortlessly. My current Bel Canto amps are rated 500w/ch into 8 ohm, doubling into 4.
Modern digital room correction products like Dirac no doubt up the ante in regards to what one might throw at a pair of speakers. Also the best modern amplifiers are capable of pushing speakers harder and with less distortion than ever before. Power demands increase exponentially at lower frequencies. Most amps would still likely give up the goat trying to deliver a flat response at higher volume at those low frequencies as well.
So its just not something that one expects to occur very often but would certainly seem withing the realm of possibility especially in a smaller room with a robust amp and digital processing to reduce peaks in the lower bass region. Published frequency response charts of older OHM Walsh models that I have seen seemed to suggest the bass hump typically associated with most any ported design like most OHM Walsh models. Newer models with built in powered subs are acoustically sealed not ported I believe. Imagine what those might do even off many less robust external amplifiers used, including tube amps if preferred!
Accurus thanks so much for sharing your findings. You provide a lot of useful new objective information about the OHMs and their capabilities. Few people take the time and initiative to leverage them to their max and share their findings as you have.
Dirac is definitely moving up on my audio wish list especially as I move more towards using commercial computers as a digital music source.