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

I talked to John today about upgrading my Walsh 2's to 2.2000's. I was ready to order the upgrade but when I found out the driver in the 2000 is aluminum I balked. Admittedly, I haven't heard many aluminum drivers but the ones I have heard I did not enjoy. Now I may just upgrade to the 1000 spec which has a paper cone.

On a side note, I wanted to try something solid state so I paired the Walsh 2's with a late 70's Luxman receiver and I'm gobsmacked at the sound I'm getting. Anything percussive sounds brilliant which has me scratching my head how a 30+ year old solid state amp, a receiver no less, can sound so good. I'm sure a nuerotic audiophile would find something to pick apart, but man, this combo plays music! I honestly would consider not upgrading the driver now that I've found an amp that dovetails so well with these speakers. However, curiosity will always get the best of me, so I'll move forward with the upgrade. I also just picked up a pair of Walsh 4's. Needless to say, I'm seriously sold on Ohm.

Aluminum?

The voice coil perhaps (I think original OHM Fs used an aluminum voice coil) or maybe the supertweeter but I can't imagine the Walsh driver material itself. That would be something new for sure.

Luxman made some good stuff. My old Walsh 2s and current Dynaudios could sing pretty well with my old Tandberg tr-2080 receiver also.

Mamboni, in looking at my subwoofer specs this evening, I decided there is little to gain and to leave well enough alone. Things sound to good the way they are. Maybe a bigger amp at some point, but I really do not want to muck with the sound I am getting.

Yeah, I was surprised when he told me that only the 2000 and 3000 have a new aluminum driver. All the other models use new paper drivers.

Hey .. nice to see this thread is still alive. Being an "Ohm boy" (LOL) I do check/lurk occasionally. Saw this on the Audiophiliac blog:

http://news.cnet.com/audiophiliac/?tag=blgs.list

Always nice to see John and his company get some press.

Actually, I think the original OHM Fs used titanium, aluminum, and paper in their famous Walsh driver. Maybe the new 1000s are steering back in the direction of using more exotic materials in the driver again? I can't find any mention of what is used in the new drivers anywhere. The OHM site only indicates that they are new and the resulting sound is "evolutionary".

The Walsh driver operates differently than conventional dynamic drivers. I don't know if metal construction lends any particular sound in the case of a Walsh driver.