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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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peterr53
184 posts
 
I stuck my head in the box....

I love walking the isles of Home Depot I don’t know if it’s the smell or the over abundance of stuff, man stuff (sorry girls) that has to be purchased, used once put in a drawer until you need one again, but due to onset of early tool dementia you buy another one...now you have two.

So no glue in the cabinet of the ever growing collection of spray paints. It would have been way easier to have a self adhesive cork sheet as spraying glue is one messy proposition.
The Ohm 4/5k looks big from the outside, but is nothing but on the inside, Donny small hands would’ve be way more successful in all the tiny crevices and spraying contact cement is no fun.
Got it all done and here’s an images of the Cork and some polysheets attached to the braces.

http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/ohm%204_zps6gmmglyv.jpg.html?o=1

Finally got a chance to stick my head in a finished box and in a factory non treated cabinet.......Wow
Wish you could hear the difference I’m expecting tighter bass faster response on transients, but the proof is in the pudding.
Im also changing up on the Tweeter (front and rear) so if some one wants 2 ribbon drivers or 2 soft dome tweeter let me know, price will be very fair.

Dinner is next with some adult beverages, till next time...🇸🇪






peterr53
184 posts
 
The up's and downs of......

So finally a beautiful California day with sun and blue skies.

After feeling that I have more great ideas then time to execute, its back to the project. I finally got the cabinets done, with a few small additions that I'll do before final assembly. Last night I pulled out the drivers, removed the last of the cage around the X-over and Walsh driver......

The downer?  Seriously what we're they thinking when they slapped together this spaghetti monster of a X-over. Do anyone remember speaker switchers of yore? Nothing good has ever been written or said about these devices, except for a few naysayers with no hearing. The image attached will say it all and it has to be removed asap.
Im still contemplating the X-over design or I might contemplate an electronic version
with infinite possible variations of settings.

I realize that 4/5000 cabinets are a hybrid old/new design, but after a little staring at the parts ( I do a lot of that lol) I suddenly saw a glaring screw-up, the Walsh driver was covered 
by part of the original cabinet....This is pure laziness and should never happen on a $5000
speaker. As can be seen in the image it's not a small area either. There is also some old
rubber gaskets left from the old set-up!!!

This will get done sooner than later, until then......🇸🇪
peterr53
184 posts
 
http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/ohm%2015_zpsodhwhyjx.jpg.html?o=0

http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/ohm%206_zpsrqfhbdol.jpg.html?o=8


peterr53
184 posts
 
Its 1:30 am house is quiet but my brain is racing like a well tuned 
F1 car. I love F1 the technology, the aerodynamics and the material science, wish I had the dough to use some of the technology for the speaker up grade, but my wife is looking at the project with eyes shut wide.....she misses nothing IE. This is not her first rodeo.

After dealing with the X-over last night, I decided to go with an
electronic crossover. I'll be able to play with so many variables
build memory for each setting, but mostly that I can test and probe the different possible settings without having to rebuild the X-over.
buying new parts etc....

Im happy.....🇸🇪
frazeur1
345 posts
 

Peter, believe me, I get your thoughts and maybe a bit of frustration on the way things are somewhat hap-hazardly thrown together here. This has been a subject of my ultimate frustration as well on things in the past regarding "quality of build".

I could go on about this very thing, but will not, as it doesn't do any good to harp on it, and in the end, I still think the Ohms are very good sounding speakers and maybe some of this has absolutely no bearing on sonics. I will say this, at least your can/switch/wiring/crossover assembly there do look a decent deal better than what I have witnessed in the past, for whatever that is worth.

As to the cabinet blocking part of the driver, while in theory maybe not a good idea at all, and maybe a general lack of attention to detail etc., keep in mind that most of the sound/music is being driven outwards from the cone surface and not so much down, and I doubt that there is much if any real "loss" of information due to the cabinet not being perfect. But, perfectionists to a fault maybe some of us are.

I will be interested in your electronic crossover here, as I do think utilizing active crossovers can yield some good results. Not always though, and sometimes it ends up being more complex in the end, which may be the case with the Ohms here, but worth a try!

Thanks for the pics along the way too, that to me is the most interesting part for several reasons....Will continue to watch this space!

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