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

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! :-)

Mapman, I'll email you.

Rebbi - Glad to hear it. I know exactly what you mean about instruments sounding like the real thing. One thing the 2000s did right out of the box was this dead-on presentation of timbre. Guitars have a sound that reminds me of when I used to play (albeit badly) guitar myself. Horns are uncanny in their realism. And yes, there is a real sense of the body of stringed acoustic instruments. I was not used to this, and at first thought the cabinets were "singing". Then I began to realize that this was an authentic part of the recording. Enjoy your new gear, rebbi. Keep us posted.