Are the new Ohm Walsh speakers Audiophile quality?

I’d caution against assuming the new Ohm’s are like the originals. The originals had true time and phase coherent bending wave Walsh drivers without electronic cross-overs and had circular dispersion. The originals were also less efficient and less durable. As they aged the sound could change.
The new ones don’t have Walsh drivers, are not time and phase coherent or have circular dispersion, add electronic cross-overs, are more efficient, more durable and more consistent over time.

From the Ohm website...


“The Ohm CLS Driver is a vertical line source that combines inherently perfect time and phase alignment and uniform polar frequency response”.


https://ohmspeaker.com/technology/#coherent-line-source-driver


As for the sound and quality... plenty of positive reviews about the sound...but the veneer application may not always be a 10. 

 Is the tweeter time aligned? Doesn’t it have a bass reflex port?
I’d really like to see a step response confirm this.

Well here is the published skinny:

https://ohmspeaker.com/technology/#coherent-line-source-driver

Says they are “coherent” ie Coherent Line Source.

All I can add is they both look and sound coherent to me.

I also have kef ls50 metas. Those look and sound coherent to me as well.

^i believe the KEF has a second order cross-over and a rear port. In which case: no.