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

Winegasman,

I'm grateful to you for your post... it's very helpful!

Have you played around much with the positioning of your Ohm's? I'm wondering if you've noticed the changes in tonal balance and imaging specificity that I have, in response to changing the speaker-to-speaker spread distance.

Also your room isn't that much larger than mine. Do you find the 100's to be well suited to that room? I thought that the bass out of the 100's might be too heavy for a room that size.

Don't apologize for being "long winded." I liked reading your thoughts!

I agree with Winegasman 100%, live music doesn't have precise impaging, it has a more diffuse imaging like the Ohms or the Castle Harlech's I used to own with a top firing driver, and although the Ohms I believe are closer to live music some listeners will still prefer the very precise image that usually comes with a much smaller "sweet spot".

Guppy,

Well put!

Martykl,

My guess is the MBLs are imaging champions for many because they are more omnidirectional on the top end than the Ohms.

The Ohms use a single soft dome tweeter these days in the series 3 versions as I understand it from John Strohbeen. These are normally mounted to face inwards 45 degrees. The soft dome design provides good dispersion as tweeters go, but it is not omnidirectional.

With the Ohms, when listening on-axis your ears receive sound directly from the tweets, the timbre is brighter and the imaging tends to sound more "etched" like more conventional box designs. When not, the timbre is less bright and the imaging sounds less etched, but the imaging still holds up in terms of being able to localize instruments, recording lines, etc.

Mapman, Recalling an earlier conversation that we had on the subject of imaging of Ohms, omni's, and conventional speakers, FWIW I set up my conventional speakers so that the tweeter axis crosses in front of the listener position on about the same angle that the Ohm use. Interesting isn't it. Perhaps if Rebbi hasn't already tried this, he might find it interesting to do so with his boxes. BTW, this set up also solved some first reflection problems from side walls and ceilings that I had.