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

"A business must have the collective goals of their customers in mind. "
And, their bottom line.

That too.  Successful businesses do both.

But cutting corners is cutting corners. Yes you are making the "bottom line"
for the company and share holders. At some point you got to take a look at the competition 
and say........Damn $5000 is getting an amazing value, beautiful cabinetry and custom built
drivers to meet custom specs.

Look at the 4/5000 (my speakers) The cost of all the hardware including 
"Walsh" driver, tweeter switches, crossover, wiring, and speaker connector
will barely cost $175. Give or take $20. Ohm buys used cabinets for $200 on average,
Barely  touch the inside  (might add a brace or two).  Veneers the cabinet which nowadays 
is so easy and simple due to the veneers being layed out on either wood or paper veneer,
you add contact cement (or its pre-glued) voila done..... 

So what I'm trying to say is that not much effort went in to the product
to make more than $4000 in profit.

Does it sound great...Sure it does, but with some better engineering, better
parts, and more love put in to the speaker it could be totally amazing.

The effort went into making it affordable, sound great and being reliable. I don’t think JS cares nearly as much about the looks. Certainly not as much as many competitors.

You can always go into business and see how it pans out. OHM has been doing their thing their way for over 40 years now and still kicking so they got a bit of a head start.

One thing I've come to realize of late even more so than ever is the right know how, usually obtained through years of experience, can easily trump relying mainly on fancy parts and bling.   That's the magic of OHM and other companies of the same ilk, both large and small. 

Mapman....

Do you know why I started to build the speakers?
After opening the can of the small mini's, and having the shock of my life!
The workmanship being so poor that not even a first time speaker builder
would have the balls to "glue" together such abysmal product. Yes it's built in a 
"can" but that shouldn't give them the license to sell crap. If you don't believe me I'll be more that happy to show everyone the mess I payed big dollars for.

And if one product shows such disregard to decent workmanship, the chance 
all of them have the same problem.
I understand you're a fanboy and that's OK, and I don't have issues with that
per say, but when you know there's a problem ( Ohm replaced/fixed two cans
for me and it doesn't surprise me one bit looking inside the "Can").
Call John tell him that there's a problem and customers might be catching on to the
issues and he could very easily up the quality to make the product worth the asking price.

And finally if you done something for 40years, there likely two options how things go.

One: you're so tired of all the crap, your on autopilot and stay on because you're making 
money.

Two: you love what you do and strive to do things better every day. No one can question
the quality and ethics of your brand, and can't wait to get back to the office in the morning.

p..........🇸🇪