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

Just a word of praise for John and the boys at Ohm in terms of the packaging of their speakers. My 100s arrived at their new home on Monday. Fortunately, I had saved all the original packing materials -- and I can tell you that repacking those puppies was not easy! Still, my heart kind of fell when the new owner e-mailed me to say that one of the boxes was seriously roughed up by UPS. But John once told me that he considers their packaging material to be "a sacrificial offering to UPS." Anyway, the 100s are QUINTUPLE boxed at the factory, and between two outermost nested boxes are sheets of plywood. So, in the end, the speakers came through unharmed. Whew! :-)

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1267197063&read&3&zzlMarkeetaux&&

Vertically mounted/downward firing speakers (like OHM Walshes) can interact strongly with the floor, particularly acoustically lively floors like wood floors, etc.

The thread above talks about this scenario which is more common with subwoofers but also applies to the OHM Walshes, so I though it would be of interest to those in this thread.

I just ordered Microwalsh Tall SE's in Rosewood... gotta wait 2-3 weeks for them. Heh, I'm kinda banking on being able to sell my current speakers in that time-frame, otherwise I'll have some explaining to do, seeing as my main motive was to save space. ('Um, why are there 2 pair of speakers in here, now?')

Ron - My wife asked me the same question! I actually have TWO pair of vandersteen 1Cs sitting in my basement (I replaced one pair with the 2000s, and the surround pair with the used MWTs I bought from an Agoner). When I told her the 2000s came with a 120-day in-home trial, so I needed to keep my Vandys until I decided whether to keep them or not, she understood. Good luck!

hehe. I had the same issue. Luckily my wife likes how they look, and managed to tolerate the clutter for a couple of days.

Congrats on you MWT's!