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

peter I appreciate that but I am getting the sound I want and no time or interest in dabbling inside my Walshes at present.

My goal when I got back into this stuff several years back was to find the right speakers first and do whatever needed to get exactly the sound I wanted from there. My path was from OHM to Maggie to B&W and back to OHM in my bigger room over the course of about 25 years.   I’ve done many tweaks around the speakers to get exactly the sound I wanted since I got them almost 10 years ago now (wow). I will say the sound can vary widely based on all the typical suspects that affect how speakers sound and what I have now is in another league from when I started. Many ways to skin the cat.

Maybe if something heads south, but I gotta say that I’ve owned OHM Walshes since 1982 and the only issues I have ever had were the internal braces on my original Walsh 2s come loose inside and have to be reset. Those speakers did move around the country in the back of my car a lot in those days. I am more settled now and my current OHMs mostly stay put.

I did refabric the hoods of my old Walsh 2s as well using a beige colored loose wove wool fabric mainly to please my wife aesthetically. Those were part of teh trade in I did for my current F5 series 3.

peter,

Are those folded ribbons the same or similar to those used in Goldenear Aeon speakers?

I have heard those.  Much different top end from any soft domes I have heard.   Very polite is the term I used to describe the sound.   I could easily live with a pair of the Goldenear Aeon speakers in the right room.

I find the OHm Walshes quite easy on the ear and not fatiguing though they can go somewhat that way in some cases.   But not nearly as much as my Dynaudio Contour 1.3mkII or Triangle Titus monitors.

I recently acquired BelCanto C5i Digital Class D integrated amp in my second system.   None of my speakers have any sign of hotness or edge ever with this amp.   Its the first I've owned (and the newest with latest greatest technology) that I could say that about.   It would be interesting to hear a good speaker with folded ribbon tweeter on that.

Many factors that contribute to sound.

My very first "good" speakers (Criterion) had Heil air motion transformers.   I bought these when working at Lafayette Radio circa 1977.   I was a newbie then and liked those over other speaker brands sold with other tweeter types.

Problem was they would always blow out at modest volume even off 40 w/ch lafayette integrated amp I had at the time so I dumped them after about a year (for OHM Ls I heard at tech Hifi).

I'm sure the modern equivalents are much superior.   There are many speakers from those days I would bet could sound in another league these days with modern digital and amplifier technologies in play.

Good morning Bondman and everyone else......

The Walsh driver is not crossed over at 7k, look at the frequency sweep (pink noise)
there's just not enough energy to go past 4K let alone 7k. I will hook up one of the drivers
today run a sweep as is, then I'll use the parametric equalizer to see how far I can push the
frequency extension. It'll be a fun excercise.....
The other thing is the tweeter used is not a super tweeter. A super tweeter would pick up
after the regular tweeter drops of, let say 18k and above.

Espresso my drug of choice.........🇸🇪

I'd be willing to bet the crossover frequency with Microwalsh (smallest driver) is higher than with 5000 (largest).   How much?  Don't know but probably enough information available for analysis to make an educated guess.