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

What's the first equation?! it looks familiar...
Funny, I've been looking into Wyred4Sound the last couple of days. Good reviews on their amps and the DACs look good too.

The W4S amps look like a nice combo with Ohms...

I would have gone for the Wyred except I decided to splurge and go for the BCref1000m2s for a significant premium.

The premium got me 100K input impedance compared to 60K and perhaps an upgrade in the on-board power supply.

I like the Wyreds as the best value overall though that are capable of driving the OHMs to the max and also mate well with most tube pre-amps.

So if you want to splurge, you can substitute the BC ref100m2s for the Wyreds in the equation, but you may end up with very comparable results with the Wyreds as well I suspect. Some reviewers have suggested an audible sound difference between the two, but I have never had the opportunity to compare.

And yes, I am a fan of the MErcury Living Presence recordings as well and they provide some of the most captivating sound available on a suitable system. A lot of those used very simple miking techniques combined with a focus on delivering a captivating stereo sound experience back in the day when stereo was a new and big thing. The OHMs deliver this in spades as they are capable of doing with most all very good recordings I have tried when driven to their max potential by an amp like the Wyred or BC Icepower amps.

I do not understand what the Icepower detractors are hearing to justify that position. The sound may not be to everyones taste (nothing is) but there is certainly no graininess or any other artifacts that people associate with anything even remotely digital in nature.

Zk,

YEs, I would easily recommend those with smaller rooms like my two 12X12 rooms go straight to a pair of smaller OHMs in an optimized nearfield configuration with suitable amplification as well and rest in peace from there.

I run monitors in one of my two 12X12s but frankly if that were my main listening room I'd probably just add another pair of smaller OHMs and call it a day.

Mapman - One of my most treasured finds is a Mercury Living Presence of Frederick Fennel conducting the Cole Porter song book. It's a Wilma Cozart production, stereo, in remarkably good condition. It can make almost any vinyl playbeck system sound wonderful.

Diebenkorn - interesting observations. I have noticed that if I scoot my chair up from it's usual position to form a roughly equilateral triangle, about 4.5" per side, my Walsh 2000s do sound better than from further away.

A teaser - I am trying a new preamp out on my system. Way too early to post any more info, but I will eventually.

Having heard well set up true omni mbl speakers in a sizeable room unlike any that most of us schlubs will ever have, I would consider those to be the all time champs I have heard in terms of image depth and 3-d soundstage.

The pseudo-omni OHMs approach that kind of 3-d soundfield best in a near field configuration I find.

depth of soundstage is the only area where I would say good true omnis like mbl in a very large room with lots of space behind them have the edge over my OHMs in my rooms normally.