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

I still have my Carver pre-amp with sonic holography around as a spare.

Agree about the ups and downs with sonic holography. I bought the Carverand used it primarily with Magneplanars back in the eighties. The Walsh 2s I also owned never seemed to benefit, nor the newer OHMs that I tried it with a while back just to see (hear).

The down that often ruined SH for me (other than the small sweet spot) was that I noticed it almost always tended to degrade the authority in the low end as a side effect of opening things up.

My wife hid the Walsh 5000s that I had ordered from John in early November. I assumed that I wouldn't recieve them until after the New Year since Ohm shuts down for a two week holiday at the end of December. Anyway, it was a nice surprise to get them on Christmas day. Of course I had to postpone setting them up until after entertaining family and neighbors.

I will give a full review after a few days of listening and utilizing a wide variety of genres. Let me just say that the news is good, very good. The Walsh 5000s sound fluid, dimensional and very dynamic fresh out of the box (unlike the Walsh 5 Series 3 which were tight-arse out of the box and needed several hard hours of breakin). There are two areas where the improvements/refinements are very obvious. I am very very pleased with what I am hearing but will wait before providing further details.

Merry Christmas all!

Mamboni,

Very cool. Congratulations! Looking forward to your impressions!

Mamboni, where in the world did your wife hide those big things? That would be a rather nice surprise! Looking forward to reading about your impressions.

I am going to talk to John once their end-of-year shutdown is over about getting the 3000 series drivers for my Walsh 3's. I had been listening to the 2000 series drivers mounted to one of my friend's Walsh 2's, very nice indeed. Now that I have a very nice set of 3XO cabinets, the 2000's will be going back to John for the 3000's.

I have to say the newer drivers are a very nice upgrade from the original drivers! Much smoother and not so "peaky" in the treble region. Bass is a bit tighter and deeper. A high recomendation if you have an older pair of Walsh's that haven't been back to Ohm for a tune-up.

Would love to have a pair of 5000's someday, but the 3000 should fit my listening room very well. Enjoy your music, and Happy Holidays to all! Tim

She hid them in the dining room - I never go in there. The family sups in the kitchen. I bought only the head unit upgraded drivers, not the entire loudspeakers with cabs mind you!