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

That should be a very nice upgrade (three generations of driver improvements) from original Walsh 4's to the latest 5000 drivers! I would expect to hear a big difference. Please let us know how it turns out.

This thread is a great expose of audiophilia nervosa. It emphasizes perfectly how audiophiles are nearly unable to seperate better from different sound. Note the OP's initial OTT excitement over the MWTs, as followed by the rollercoaster ride that was the ensuing months of public anxious wrangling over what was really best, those or the Totems. After all the Ohm gushing, the OP finally decides he doesn't really like them. A kid picking petals off a flower: I love you, love you not, love you, love you not....

Folks, for these reason it's really important to learn critical listening and to know what you like. This will keep you from going through the same money-losing and manufacturer-bothering anxiety that the OP went through.

Not to derail this thread too much but OK, I'll bite, Kristian: What do you mean by critical listening? Are you referring to active listening to music or a system as I perceive the two labors to be quite different?

I think that offer by John Strohbeen is quite compelling. It's too bad other manufacturers don't do this but that is one of the interesting things about how John runs his company: He is always willing to do things outside the box to give owners (and propsective owners) genuine value for their purchase.

Kristian85,
As the OP in this thread, I found your comments to be pretty condescending, even insulting. "A kid picking petals off a flower?" "Manufacturer-bothering anxiety?" Pretty harsh, don't you think?
I'm not interested in hijacking this excellent and informative thread to engage in a flame war, but I do want to set the record straight. This will be my only post on this matter:
The only thing I'd have done differently throughout my investigation would have been to buy used gear, when possible. It would have saved me some money. Other than that, with no local dealers carrying gear that I wanted to hear in my room, in my system, I don't know how else I'd have learned what worked for me.
There were and are things I loved about the Ohms and it took me a year of living with my 100's to figure out what I was less than pleased with about them. I won't go into that here. But when I borrowed a pair of small, two-way monitors and listened to them in my room, I thought, "Bingo, this is it!" And I've been very pleased with where my system is going since then.
As for manufacturer-bothering, my impression was never anything other than John Strohbeen enjoying talking to customers and trying nearly anything to make them happy. I respect him for that. He's a unique personality and an industry pioneer -- and he certainly has lots of integrity.
Okay, I'm done.