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

Reb,

If the image sounds "focused" then you've solved the imaging issue. Worst case is very small changes in speaker location might fine tune it even further.

Room acoustics/flatness is another story. Though measurements and tweaks according can be an educational and productive exercise for getting the timbre that sounds best to you if you have the time, both Ohms and Totems are competing under the same conditions in the same room. That might be enough to make the call if you think you've spent sufficient time getting each to sound their best.

educational and productive exercise

It's not that bad...once your up and running it (measurements) can be done in minutes. To get it right, takes time & patience...

Rebbi - Sounds like you're really taking advantage of the demo process - not something you can do in a store!! That would make sense that you're getting more of the tweeter, with the speakers farther apart.

Zkzpb8,

Yeah, it's been an interesting process. I played some Steely Dan this morning before going off to work ("Two Against Nature") and it sounded astounding... you'd have sworn you were listening to some sort of surround system, not a two-channel stereo... that's how much the music reached out and enveloped the room. Yet, with the Ohm's moved farther apart, the imaging was solid and lost the "swimmy" or indistinct character it had before.

My set of customized drivers arrived by UPS today. I'll report back about them soon.

A cool thing with the Ohm Walsh speakers these days is that all parts of the driver, including crossover, is inside the can.

That was not the case with older Ohm Walsh speaks, like original Walsh 2s.

The crossovers were mounted separately in the cabinet. Upgrades from older Ohms to newer ones with self -contained drivers is a little more difficult at first (the old crossover board has to be removed or bypassed at minimum) but once you get to the new driver design, any aspect of the sound can be changed by swapping cans.

And the cans are the easiest part to ship to/from Ohm as needed.

A very clever, flexible and practical design for a company that lives on providing upgrades, tweaks and support direct to customers!