Finally getting back to this fray....*G*
Peter53, what drove me to 'roll my own' omnis is the fact that Ohm's speakers, nice as they are and as well as they work, are Not true Walsh speakers. A quick glance at the innards of them vs. an original A or F makes that obvious. Inverting a woofer and parking a dome tweeter above it is not a duplication; it's a 'fudge'.
I can understand the Why they are. But given the physics involved as to How the originals worked and the way they were constructed to take advantage of what was going on 'under the hood'....no surprise as to their 'opt out', if you will.
I've taken a somewhat different approach with my efforts, closer to the German Physiks versions but going to a vertically stacked 2 way and tapping on the Infinity 'ice cream cone' variant for the tweeter. My 'woofer' cones are a tad larger than the GP's, and running a sub for the lower bass.
I'm pretty happy with them...but there's still lots of room for improvement, which is what occupies me of late. And they're still less expensive, as long as I ignore the 'man hours' involved...*L*
Any pursuit off the beaten track has its' price...*S*
Peter53, what drove me to 'roll my own' omnis is the fact that Ohm's speakers, nice as they are and as well as they work, are Not true Walsh speakers. A quick glance at the innards of them vs. an original A or F makes that obvious. Inverting a woofer and parking a dome tweeter above it is not a duplication; it's a 'fudge'.
I can understand the Why they are. But given the physics involved as to How the originals worked and the way they were constructed to take advantage of what was going on 'under the hood'....no surprise as to their 'opt out', if you will.
I've taken a somewhat different approach with my efforts, closer to the German Physiks versions but going to a vertically stacked 2 way and tapping on the Infinity 'ice cream cone' variant for the tweeter. My 'woofer' cones are a tad larger than the GP's, and running a sub for the lower bass.
I'm pretty happy with them...but there's still lots of room for improvement, which is what occupies me of late. And they're still less expensive, as long as I ignore the 'man hours' involved...*L*
Any pursuit off the beaten track has its' price...*S*