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

Carja,

Nice. Thanks for sharing that!

WOuld love to see some pictures of the 5000s in Bubinga wood.

IS it a veneer or solid Bubinga? I'm guessing the first, especially of no extra cost.

I ask because I see Bubinga is an exotic wood sought for use in instrument construction, similar perhaps to Baltic Birch.

There are many very exotic and well received speaker lines out there that construct their cabinets from these kinds of exotic woods that lend themselves well to musical intruments as well in that this is a key aspect of the actual sound of such designs. I've often wondered what a pair of OHM Walsh speakers with similar construction might sound like. I think the results could be quite extraordinary if done right, but a different tuning process would probably be required for the Walsh driver, so I think it would entail a significantly different functional design.

Just curious. I suspect yours are babinga veneer which would not change the OHM Walsh design for sonic reasons, but would still deliver the usual still excellent sound plus being more lovely to look at.

Enjoy!

Found this about Bubinga wood in wikipedia. Interesting....

"Uses

The genus is well-known for its luxury timbers. The best-known timber is bubinga (Guibourtia demeusei, aka kevazingo). Another is ovangkol. Species of Guibourtia also produce Congo copal.

The wood is often used by luthiers for harps and other instruments, such as bass guitars, because of its mellow and well-rounded sound. Warwick Bass is known to use Bubinga and Ovangkol. It has been used in drum shells as well. Drum companies such as Tama offer various high-end drum kits with plies of Bubinga in the shells.[4] Crafter also use bubinga on some of their instruments.[5] Bubinga is also used in both acoustic and electric guitars for its figure and hardness.

Bubinga is sometimes used in the production of archery bows, in particular as the main wood of the handle in some flat bows.

Bubinga is also used in furniture making, usually for tables, as large slabs of the dense wood can be cut, and with very little manipulation, be used for a table top.

Bubinga often has an appearance similar to the mineral tiger eye. Light brown through dark brown and red, some samples show as almost purple.

Luxury car maker Lexus also makes use of the wood in their luxury vehicles.

They are known to produce chalconoids (chemical compounds related to chalcone), relatives of medically important chemicals called stilbenoids, one famous one being resveratrol.[citation needed]"

Mapman the 5000 uses veneers, not solid exotics. The end result is very pleasing, though not the glossy finish of a rococo dining piece. I was torn between that and purpleheart. John never had a request for that wood, but he got me a sample. So if anyone out there wants to have a one of a kind, look at purpleheart.
It's quite true that various woods sound different- when I bought my son an electric guitar as a present, I selected one with a body made from korina wood. More of a classic 60's guitar.

Ah, tonewood....

http://www.edroman.com/customshop/wood/main.htm

Some interesting stuff here.

New member of the Ohm fanboy club here. My first and only truly "good" audio system was back in the early through mid 70's. I had heard a pair of Ohm A's or Ohm F's a few times in a Tech Hi-Fi listening room but as a high school senior with a part time job (at $1.65 hourly!) the big Ohm's were just a dream. I ended up with the much maligned but better than you'd expect Bose 501's (original - not the II's,) a Lenco turntable and a 65 wpc Onkyo integrated amp (Onkyo was unkown to the mass market at that time but a kindly hi-fi nut who worked in a local repair shop steered me to Onkyo.) A variety of circumstances (bad lifestyle choices, becoming a parent unexpectedly at age 25 etc.) resulted in my selling off my system and I've had naught but small integrated amps and bookshelf speakers since then. Some bug caught me this Christmas... I stumbled across a nearly mint pair of Ohm Walsh 2's for $300 locally and my next chapter in audio began. Grabbed a used Adcom 545II (100 wpc) at the same time for $130 and was initially please but not wowed by the sound (was using my NAD integrated amp as a preamp.) A few short weeks later I scored a Harmon Kardon Citation 22 amp from the late 70's/early 80's (200 wpc) and a vintage Conrad Johnson PV2 preamp. My turntable (Technics SL1400 with Shure V15 Type IV cart) has been pulled out of mothballs... and I'm now on the hunt for a good CD player. These speakers with this amp and preamp... even with a crappy Yamaha cD changer or 320kbps mp3's from an iPod as the source... sound EFFING incredible! I'm floored every time I listen to music now and for the first time in close to 30 years I find myself really engaged by the music. :-) I have a problematic living room with a big open archway on across the back, a fireplace with glass doors flanked by deep wall to wall bookshelves and another open archway just a foot in from the front left corner. Have only played a little bit with placement as I have few options but I'm thrilled - truly thrilled - by the sense of life and space that music now has with the Ohm's. They'll even upgrade my 2's to the new generation of drivers for $1400 (versus me buying anew pair of 200's for $2800)but I think I don't want to mess with success. I'll just kick back and enjoy this for awhile!