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

Guys,

I know this has been covered here and elsewhere prior, but just a reminder that more watts will let you go louder but current is key to delivering smooth tonal balance top to bottom at low to typical listening levels in particular with the OHMs due to variation in input impedance at various frequencies (often referred to as a "difficult" or "complex" load).

A high efficiency, high current amp can be identified by mostly double rated wattage output from 8 to 4 ohms and then ideally from 4 to 2 ohms as well.

Mapman, I mentioned this before but I'll be using a Blue Circle BmPH 160 @ 8ohms, 240 @ 4ohms. So no doubling down here. I'll be using it with the Walsh 5 S3.

Foster_9,

Yes, not uncommon with integrateds. More juice and bigger transformers produces more EMF that can create noise in nearby low level pre-amp sections, especially phono pre-amp sections.

Though I don't think integrated amps are optimal for the OHMs, there are some very well built and good sounding integrateds nonetheless. I suspect the Blue Circle is one of those though I am not intimately familiar with it.

John Potis raved in a review about a pair of Blue Circle monoblocks taking his Walsh 4 mkIIs to an entirely new level and Blue Circle is using OHM drivers in their new speaker line as well, so I think Blue Circle/OHM in general is a good match.

Mapman,

I'd love to have the chance to try my Ohm 100's with another amp. I'm running mine with a Unison Unico 80 w/ch integrated, hybrid (tubes in the preamp section). It's sounding increasingly sweet to me, but I have nothing to compare the Unico to, really, so it's hard to know.

REb,

I did consider a hybrid integrated recently when upgrading and looking for a taste of tubes.

The Unisons were high on my list. I suspect the Unico does quite well with 100s.

BTW, I think current is a bigger factor with the larger Walsh drivers for larger rooms. I notice the difference much more with my 5's than my 100s.