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

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......🇸🇪

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.....🇸🇪

frazeur good point. I’d expect cabinet interactions of Walsh style drivers (and tweeters mounted essentially in total isolation from cabinet) to be much lesser than in most cases where drivers are mounted and coupled directly to cabinets. Exclusively in teh bass as I understand it. Many would regard a design that reduces cabinet interaction in and of itself potentially a good thing and based on listening I would agree.

Of course there are many factors that go into good sound. What matters most will vary case by case, design by design.

The Ohm Walshs are essentially a "black box" in the sense that transducers are totally enclosed (in the can) and out of view. That makes for a lot of wiggle room that would not be tolerable aesthetically otherwise.

I hear the beautiful music but all the ugly parts are out of view.

Kinda like just driving a car versus looking under the hood. I will look in there for routine maintenance or if I suspect a problem but that’s about it.

Also I think we are talking about refurbed Walsh 4 cabinets here, not new cabs.   

My F5 series 3 OHMs use refurbed OHM F cabinets, which was a big attraction for me.   Many still regard OHM Fs as one of the best speakers ever (at least when they were not broken).    So the cabs cannot be too shabby.   The drivers are much different but the topology relative to the cabs is essentially the same  although most new Walsh speakers are ported not sealed.   5015 models with powered subs on board are the exception.