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
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.
For all here.
I would really recommend taking up GIK Acoustics' offer for free room consultation. I doubt many of us here (myself included) are acoustical engineers and if you contact GIK they will let you work with one on a custom room solution. I went this route and it was pain free as I trouble issues for the room were identified and a variety of products to fix the solution were given to me to choose from. At this point I feel confident after the next batch of treatments arrives on Wednesday and I make one more order for some ceiling difusion, i.e. I followed the plan laid out by the acoustic engineer that I should have considering the confines of my room a setup that takes care of most of the issues.

Anyway just my thought. :)