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

Here's a very unique Ohm Walsh thing that I've probably mentioned before but am hearing clearly again right now and I think is very interesting.  

Listening to to mono recordings in this case The Beatles cover of Money on "Meet the Beatles". 

The music is focused dead center on my front wall with enough ambience wall to wall to make one question its a mono recording being heard.   Very live sounding!  

Thing is is in my L shaped room. With F5s along the long wall at the base of the L facing into the length of the room,. The left speaker is in the center of the wall where the soundstage is focused and further from my listening position closer to the right wall about halfway down the length of the L than the right speaker which is about 3-4 feet from right wall essentially in front of my listening position .   The soundstage tends to stay focused at dead center of the ~22 foot wall forming the base of the L no matter where the speakers are along the wall pretty much. 

Very unique.   Makes even average mono recordings sound audiophile worthy and a very unique trick. An omni thing in general I suspect.  

Well, acurus and mapman, as much as I love the way my rig with the 2000s sounds now, you two have made up my mind.  As soon as I can afford to, I am going to start adding diffusors to my room.  Wish me luck!

With my F5s in large L shaped room, I have three 2X2 foot absorbing panels on my sidewalls at prime reflection points based on my two main listening positions. These help narrow and focus the soundstage a tad to my preference. That’s all.

Omni speakers naturally diffuse the sound especially in comparison to others, no?

mapman - interesting post. I had put a lot of foam panels up on the front wall and side walls at the hieght of the Ohm cans. I found I had too much center-fill, and not enough of a soundstage width. I removed some, and noticed an improvement without losing too much of the center fill. Since my listening area is small and asymetrical, I speculate that some diffusion might exapnd the soundstage even further. Not that I suffer from a compact soundstage now; on the right recordings, the soundstage is absolutely holographic and, as The Donald would say, HUGE! Guilding the lilly? Perhaps. But I want to hear for myself what the diffusion panels will do.

My front wall of L shaped room is 22’ wide and sound stage extends wall to wall and beyond with most recordings. The panels reel that in just a tad. They might soften things up just a tad as well. I’ve debated added two or 4 on the ceiling at prime reflection points there but no rush to try.

I’ve found isolating from floor interactions as I have mentioned to be much larger in magnitude in terms of sound improvement when needed. Total night and day differences there when floors are suspended and lively, not at foundation level.

Of course every room if different as are personal preferences, so one has to carefully choose their weapons depending. No reason to rule out diffusion either if called for.