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


Hi,

I'd love to hear the impressions of people who've actually spent some time with these speakers to share their sense of their plusses and minuses. Mapman here on Audiogon is a big fan, and has shared lots on them, but I'm wondering who else might be familiar with them.
rebbi
When we get to 999, we I think we should honor Rebbi with the 1000th post... :)
We have not spent [too] much time discussing room treatments or room correction in this thread although there has been some very helpful information about set-up. Someone is using an equalizer (Mamboni or maybe it's Martykl). I need to get a better understanding about the Ohms. They seem so counter-intuitive to me in the way they interact with the room. For a long time, I took it as a given to minimize the room's interaction. It seems the Ohms approach embraces it all. I am very puzzled.

Bondmanp recently achieved some great results from his post. In fact, he recently emailed me with some very detailed and insightful comments. In fact, I'd post them here if I had his permission.

I plan read more about their design and will talk to John Strohbeen, but I don't want to waste his time asking a bunch of questions, so if anyone else has achieved great success with either treatments or correction such as TacT, Audyssey, MCAAC, or ARC (or not), I would certainly appreciate reading about your experiences. Thanks.
IMHO, the single best way to optimize the incredible soundstaging and imaging of the Ohm Walshs without sacrificing their remarkable dynamics and tonal accuracy is to acoustically treat the room to absorb all first reflections, particularly side walls and ceiling reflections. While it is true that the sound radiation pattern of the Ohm Walsh has been tailored to minimize room reflections while directing high dispersion sound into the interior of the room, the imaging and soundstaging become razor sharp and vivid when first reflections are completely eliminated by judicious use of room treatments. Basically, the Ohm Walshs sound best placed along the short wall of a rectangular room that is acoustically live but where the middle third of the room's long dimension is treated with absorptive covering on the side walls and ceiling to eliminate first reflections. This is how my room is configured and the sound is spectactular.