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

Rebbi,

I'm not sure of your taste in music, but I have another recommendation for you if it runs to "stripped down" rock music - think Neil Young style. The cd is called "With These Hands" by Alejandro Escovedo. He's something of a cult figure because:

A) His dad is the well known jazz artist Pete Escovedo
B) He's done the noisy/garage thing with Buick McKane
C) He's done the Cow Punk thing with Rank n File
D) He's had hepatitis C and an acoompanying benefit CD with cult/rock celeb participation.
and
E) His music can be great.

Unfortunately, the productions are frequently too dense for my taste and the sound can get muddy. However, this particular CD "unravels" nicely on the Ohms and sounds better (to my ear) than on conventional loudspeakers. It's no world beater, but a good demo of where the omni approach works better.

Marty

PS Listen specifically to the percussion on the title track to see what I mean. I will caution that the sound on this one may polarize opinion and disappoint some, but the good news for those folks is that the music's still great - if you like this sort of thing.

The joys of settling in...

It's a pleasure being off the speaker merry-go-round and just enjoying music for awhile!

Had a brief chance to listen today (parents' health situation not yet totally resolved... but getting there...)

Two more "Ohm Show Pieces," both from Steely Dan Gold: Expanded Edition.

Century's End and True Companion. That signature Ohm "fill the room with music" thing is definitely happening in spades.

Steve

PS: Thanks for the recommendations, Marty!

Interesting... there's a guy here on Audiogon right now with a pair of rebuilt Ohm F's (!!!) for $1200! Here's the address:

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1244825082&/OHM-F-

He's got some negative thoughts on the current Ohm company, too, which make for interesting reading.

Yeah, I saw that.

A good price if you can pick them up and are truly restored to good working order. That's the tricky part.

Many who loved the original Fs are skeptical at best regarding the CLS design that supplanted them.

The unique thing about them is that they were single driver full range (to 16-17 Khz anyway) and omni-directional.

Thats rarified ground. Pretty much only rebuilt Fs or As and and perhaps one model German Physiks, at most, available these days, as I recall (their horn loaded model).

Their achilles heel was that the driver was easily over-driven and damaged. OHM CLS design eliminated that problem by foregoing the top end with the Walsh driver, but for some that is where the magic was, so they will look elsewhere these days.

Rebbi.

Now that some time has passed, do you have any last thoughts on MWT's? You had mentioned that they don't give up much to the 100's. I'm just wondering what you think now.

Hope all is well with your family!

-P