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

But....but come on now, same driver smaller 
housing should not change anything but the bass....right?
Cant imagine they changed everything in the X-over for the tweeter only.
with that said I did previously remark on the hilarious $2 paper tweeter from 1970
and how bad it sounded. I did replace the tweeter with a modern design soft dome 
tweeter that doesn't break up at higher spl's.
I still run some sweeps again for the hell of it should be interesting...

Back again soon....🇸🇪

I don’t know. Just saying I would not assume two different models are equivalent sound wise unless known otherwise. The devil is always in the details. I’ve never heard anything but positive reviews of MicroWalsh talls. Don’t know what might be different with shorts or surrounds. Also John is known to customize for customers liberally as needed or desired. It often can be very hard to distinguish one OHM model from another. There are many variations out there.

I bet he would at least consider using a custom tweeter type if one requested. The main thing he seems to care about is that the customers are satisfied. I’m sure he’d offer up his opinion of ups and downs with any particular variation, maybe even if not actually doing the work.

Mapman you might be right, but all I can report on is what 
I see and how I feel about the product. I applaud any manufacturers 
that keep production in the USA. With that said there's many other
American manufacturers that build locally, source locally that still make beautiful cabinetry, excellent drivers, and still stay in business.


Next post measurements.......🇸🇪

Good evening Ladies and Gents....

It's good to be semi retired, plenty of leisure time allowing me to
fiddle around with the speakers (just don't tell my wife).

So....I got a mixed box of chocolates my friends, some great and some not to much. The first image is the stock Walsh driver all by it's lonesome
with nothing but pink noise...
http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/image_zpsomfobhuk.jpeg.html?sort=4&o=8

Look at that! The graph shows a nose dive of epic proportions.
Honestly not much to write home about and not much to show for beyond 2.25k. This did surprise me tremendously but the proof is in the pudding.

So it must be a way to spunk it up a bit!!  So I hook up the 
parametric EQ, I start to boost a bit at 1k with a gentle curve up to
10k... you can actually hear a bump in the treble nothing big but it's there.
http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/image_zpszqddvox5.jpeg.html?sort=4&o=9

I'm Swedish, but the American way is the next move....Crank up the EQ to the maximum 1k through 20k bam boom thank you brother, we have liftoff...kind of. Check it out! that's a pretty good bump, but would it sound better with music? I'll try that tomorrow.
http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/image_zpsrguwha7h.jpeg.html?sort=4&o=7

I'm going out for dinner so I'l post more later....Swedish Flag

The fortune cookie said: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes...

So after an eye opening first part of the test we must now figure out
how the drivers work as a whole. I have tree different tweeters to test
the stock tweeter, a soft dome tweeter I had laying around and the ribbon tweeter that was my test unit for further evaluation.

As you can see there's two traces on the frequency sweep, the bottom
one is the active sweep and the upper one is the actual paused graph.

The first unit was the stock "SuperTweeter" 
This was a pleasant surprise, and you can see why it so pleasant
pretty flat with no surprises anywhere in the frequency band.
Now this could also be interpreted as safe, boring, and un-exciting.
http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/image_zpspgkcxtbf.jpeg.html?sort=4&o=6

This frequency sweep is the no name tweeter 8ohm which is totally wrong as the stock unit measures 4ohm. It's a roller coaster but I didn't expect anything other than what you see.
http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/image_zpspgcrafiz.jpeg.html?sort=4&o=0

Now to the Ribbon tweeter, This unit sounds great, sparkly but not etched or edgy, the problem is that it's a 5ohm unit and the lowest
usable frequency is 3k or so which is very obvious as it starts to dip around......3k. 
I am replacing this unit with something that can be X-over around
1.5k-2K and with the electronic X-over I can make a smooth transition
between the two drivers.
http://s1248.photobucket.com/user/peterhorvath6233/media/image_zpsw91rq7bm.jpeg.html?sort=4&o=5

Next I will try to play with the stuffing to see if that makes a difference.
I might also try to bypass some switches to see if freeing up the drivers 
from the switching network makes a difference.

Hope you guys enjoy the testing phase of my quest for better sound.

Can sound be creamy?...........Swedish Flag