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 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......🇸🇪





Love hotmelt glue by the way, but not the last word in assembly science...

And  it burns.....🇸🇪
Peter I think JS goal as I read it is to give great sound for reasonable cost.  Not build a race engine.   Every engineer has a different vision.   Also a business must make a profit and ohm has been around and us based in Brooklyn for many years.   So it's a model that seems to work and hopefully continues to.   I will say prices have gone up in recent years but still us made.   I paid less than half of list for my 5s with sale price and trade ins a great deal for the sound.   Granted there are many good speakers at ohm retail prices these days but nothing like them.   
I could see the benefits of the hot melt glue to attach the braces to my old cabs.  Would help absorb vibrations I'd think.   In some apps more of s convenience perhaps but a very effective one.  Looks would be one downside but out of sight out of mind I guess.  

Maybe John will read this and adapt some of your ideas.   I'd love to hear the esotar tweeter in my ohms personally.