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

When I first had my 5000's, I hadn't listened to fine stereo in quite awhile and naively placed them near my wall (glass windows actually) towards the corners. I thought they sounded great of course, not having had a reference point for many years. I upgraded some components and following mapman's suggestions began moving them out from the rear windows and in from the corners. Now that I have them where I want them, I've reached a point of supreme satisfaction such that I don't wish to move them further. It's hard to explain in words, but when one reaches the correct placement it's a bit like discovering resonance; that is, you suddenly say to yourself, now THAT'S sweet. I find that I forget about right speaker/left speaker as it becomes completely irrelevant.

As to you setup, become comfortable with what you have for 6 months or so before changing or upgrading components. That way the previous experience will be well drilled into your memory. For me, adding a more powerful amp helped the low end, but these are 5000's and yours may be quite happy with what you have. The other big, big difference for me with vinyl was adding a step up transformer to the MC cartridge before feeding into the MM input. It just revealed the bass in the vinyl. Oh yeah, the speaker placement helped with that too.

"I find that I forget about right speaker/left speaker as it becomes completely irrelevant."

To take that a bit further, once dialed in the physical location of the speakers may be totally disassociated with the soundstage and location of things in it.

My 5s are in a decent sized L shaped room skewed to the left to fire mainly into the long dimension, about 5 feet from the rear wall. I sit at various locations within the long part of the room to listen anywhere from nearfield to ~ 15 feet back or so. When closer to the speakers, I can see the side wall all the way to the left in the short dimension. The further back I sit, I see less of the left hand portion of the rear wall, until about 7 feet back or so I only see the long length and the listening area becomes essentially a rectangle.

Despite the OHMs location being skewed well to the left of center of the short dimension to face into the long, the soundstage is generally symetrical with the width of the short length I can see. When close to the speakers, the center of the image can be essentially to the right of the speaker on that side. Listening from further back, the soundstage becomes more symetrical around the speakers and less wide. Where I sit makes a big difference in soundstage width and where the center of the soundstage actually is.

I mention this because I have found if you are used to listening to speakers, and expecting the sound to come mostly from where they are located, it can be disorienting and what you hear suffers. ONce the OHMs and your listening habits adjust and are locked in, it is golden.

My mwt 's arrived on friday. Very impressive. I will have further post soon but my prelimninary thought is that they are the most non audiophile high end audiophile speaker ive heard. In a great way....

Second i put them in both my great room with hard wood floors no furntiture and large windows... Their ability to charge or couple tonthe room is unbeleivable. I then put them in my smaller tv room......equally impressive in a different way.

Im happy....

Kbuzz what speakers have you had/heard before? Just curious for reference.

I currently use vintage ls35as as my reference trasing off with omega alinco hemps for single driver fun

Historically, ive owned quite a bit going back to dunlavys, and tannoy reds. As stated above ill add more detail when i have a chance for context and reference