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

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.

I find the phrase "Ohm Gushing" to be quite hilarious. Anyone who has not heard these speakers, or any omni speaker, just don't know what they're missing. We're gushing because we're hearing something unique that most other speakers don't do. I'm breaking my 2nd set of Ohms, a pair of the new 1000's, and will be posting my impressions as time goes by. I origimally had a pair of the micro talls, which I LOVED, but needed something that could handle more power. My speaker search is over, as the Ohms have surpassed my expectations in almost every way, but others will continue to search for their "Holy Grail" until they find something that sets them on their ear, and they can die happy knowing that they finally found the speakers of their dreams. We shouldn't be faulted for searching for that or changing our minds, as we don't always get it right the first time. This thread allowed me to make an informed decision, and gave me all the facts, positive and negative. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this informative, enlightning thread. Long live Audiophilia Nervosa!!!!!!

Kristian85: Have you ever heard an Ohm loudspeaker? If so, please post your impressions. FWIW, I heard some fantastic kit over the weekend. I heard the $54K smaller Scena (sp?) four piece towers, driven by s.s. BAT amp and preamp, and $10K AMR CD player. Huge, open soundstage, incredible definition, decay, powerful extended bass - it was all there. Did this major-buck rig outperform my Ohm 2000s? Of course. So did a more modest (!) system consisting of KEF Reference 207 (the current version) driven by Manley 100 watt tube monos and the same AMR CD player. Big, open and airy sound with great detail and again, excellent decay. Also better then my own rig. But the KEFs cost $20K/pr. I went home and listened to my modest hodge-podge rig with my Ohm 2000s. I know it does not live up to those expensive systems I heard, but it still produced pleasing, enjoyable music, and put a smile on face. For the money, that is no small feat, and why I and others "gush" over Ohm speakers.

I regularly listen to high end systems for reference and comparison and have worked to get my system into the same league.

THese days, I think I have accomplished that. I might be the Blue Jays or Rays rather than the Yankees, but my setup competes.

One thing I can assert is that the OHMs have never been the bottleneck. Every change I make is clearly audible.

You do have to look at the whole system together including room, etc.

Once you do that, choice of speakers can become a very personal choice to determine what kind of sound you want. My goal is to sound as much like a live performance of any musical genre as possible. The OHMs let me do that. OTher speakers might edge them out in some categories (as the OHMs might as well) but the OHMs are clearly the total package at nominal cost.

Let it suffice to say that in this age of self-obsessed public blog-wrangling with personal issues and decisions, if you do this, expect to be subject to criticism.

It was the OP's gushing and OTT exclamations re the Ohms when he first heard them that I found amusing and instructive. The OP was hopefully disabused of the notion that different is better.

Strohbeen has the patience of saints, and is to be highly commended. Though I am normally strictly beholden to active speakers (ATCs etc.) due to far lower distortion than passives, I'm certainly curious to hear some Ohms, and will do so when possible though I'm leery of suboptimally flat FR over the audible range at the listening position. As a trained listener, I'll know in 15 minutes or less whether they're for me. Usually in the first couple of bars.