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
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Peter - Thanks again for the update. Being able to tune the bass "Q" is a wonderful feature. My subwoofers have that (Vandersteen 2Wq).


Seperately, I had a good listen to Magico S5 MkII speakers at an audio club meeting last Sunday. No, my Ohms are not as good as the Magicos. But the presentation was very different - top-down is how I would describe it, while my system is definitely bottom-up. Here is my point: While I find the Ohms pretty good at detail resolution, they are not so transparent (or ruthless) that poorly recorded music becomes unlistenable. The Magicos are that type of speaker: So pure, so clean, and so revealing, that inferior source material becomes unlistenable. Every bit of excess brightness in a recording, a poor soundstage, and any number of problems with the recording becomes so annoying that listening to that music is not a pleasent experience. Would I like the purity and the freedom from distortion the Magicos (along with a pretty expensive chain of electronics) are capable of? Sure. But not if that meant I could no longer listen to the music I love because it was poorly recorded or mastered. Anyway, at $38K the pair, for me, it’s just an academic question!