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

If you took a look at the Walsh 12" driver you notice that a lot of the driver is covered by the basket casting, they tried to mitigate the issue by adding foam padding and some sticky 3M tape on each leg of the casting. I think if they could find a casting with thinner legs I'm 
sure it could sound even better. Just look at the original F driver or 
the German Physics driver..... Just a thought.

Always ask questions......🇸🇪

Peter don’t know. I have dynaudio speakers with top notch build including highly regarded isotar  soft dome tweeter.

They are sitting unused at present. Guess which speakers in the same setup I find completely satisfying to listen to?

just goes to show there is more to making good sound than expensive highest quality parts.

Thanks Bond for sharing your experience with the double F's. If nothing else it must have been fun to actually see them and witness them working, even if not the most ideal. Also, thanks for the info on the CLS tweeter crossover point, it really isn't too important for me to know, just my own musings or thoughts about it all. 

While I claim no expertise on how Peter mic'ed and set up his frequency sweep, weighting, scaling and all that, it does look to me like the output of the main driver while reaching that 2.5 kHz figure and beyond, it would appear it is a good deal down in db/output. It would be interesting to see an accurate sweep of both main driver and tweeter just to get an idea as a wholistic snap shot. Again, I apologize for my ignorance on what I may or may not be seeing here!

In the end though, it matters not how it measures, or how cheap the drivers or parts are, or how crummy it all may be put together overall, if it sounds good, then it is good! Just goes to show you how much can be rung out of these parts and build if one knows what they are doing! Anyway, again, just my own simple minded thoughts here! 

Thanks Peter for your sharing too! Appreciate your time and efforts! 

Well for one example I’m pretty sure hot melt glue is acoustically inert and I know it is not expensive and does its job (holding things together) well. Plus its all normally out of sight. I use the gun I bought to fix loose braces in my old Walsh 2s for things around the house all the time.

Smart or cheap?

Love sharing...

No doubt is how the pie taste, cheap perfectly cooked ingredients makes good pie.
But amazing ingredience fresh from the garden, perfectly cooked with an amazing latticework cap is so much better, both visually and taste wise.

When you start to charge big money for a product a certain level
of workmanship will be expected by most people. 
For instance... You are building your client a race engine, he's expecting forged rods and Pistons, Ferrea valves and a camshaft that's been ice hardened. But you have found a way to make the engine run great on cheap parts and because of that you just made a ton of money.... pending on that the client doesn't open up the engine....

Now to be honest I do engineering work, and my forte is to find a better way to make the Mose trap..trap I.E. even if he used the best parts I would have tinkered away to make it better, that's just me...

As for the frequency sweep it is an indication on what's going on, maybe not the last
word but close enough. The Walsh driver is wonderful and capable, and if you like the 
omni directional style of presentation hard to beat.

Adding a rear tweeter in phase with the Walsh driver is a must, but a volume control must be used to balance the presentation. The ribbon is a revelation giving you the missing imaging capabilities of other designs....a must.

Question everything......🇸🇪