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

Foster, consider when you are going to change tubes that you will have an opportunity to change the tone substantially, + or - depending on the type of and brand of tubes you can use. I'm sure you knew that, but I was just thinking about your issue with the bass and low level listening and how it might improve with careful selection.

Good point Newbee. Tube rolling could be just what the doctor ordered!

Rebbi,

I am wondering what further impressions/observations you may have with your new electronics over the past few weeks.

And Foster, any news in your hunt for the perfect low end?

Hey, Dante7 and everyone,

I'm back after Thanksgiving break.

In a word, the new electronics sound glorious! Since I changed so much at once -- both the power amp and the preamp - it's difficult to know what is due to what. But here's what I'm observing so far:

The Ohms sound more like real music than they ever have. I was listening to the opening track of Ingrid Michaelson's "Boys and Girls," and when the guitars kicked in, I had this visceral response: not, "the stereo sounds great," but "wow, there are guitars in the room!" or "it sounds like I'm in a club!" That's an experience I've never had before.

Instruments have a sense of texture and space that I've never heard before. On good orchestral recordings, violins have a "woody" quality, for example.

Good recordings also have more of a 3-dimensional quality than they did before... I don't know how to describe it right now better than that.

I am actually feeling some sympathy right now for professional audio reviewers. It's very hard to verbalize these subjective experiences and observations! What I can say pretty definitively is that the Ohms are singing on a new level with the new gear! :-)