Law of Accelerated Returns

I will say though, that with a good symphony recording, if I close my eyes at home, I can convince myself what I hear is similar to what I would hear at The Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore or Carnegie Hall (in NY), maybe a third to two-thirds of the way back in most cases, depending. Those are the two quality venues of that scale that I am most familiar with. Achieving that was one of my goals and that makes me very happy and content! If I sit close enough with the Ohm wide-dispersion pseudo omnis, maybe front row if the recording permits.

Also worth mentioning that the guy who designs the Ohm Walsh speakers that I fancy, John Strohbeen, is also a classical musician who frequents Carnegie Hall and says he uses what he hears there to "voice" his speakers. Done very well I would say! Ohms are the poor man’s mbls. They were designed to work well fairly close to walls in most any room most people might actually have though YMMSV.

I need to give the Ohm Walsh’s a whirl in my room. I think they are fascinating 🧐 

Fascinating is an apt description. Different from most for sure...  Been around in various forms now for over 50 years.

My advice to those who continuously spend lots of time and money with fuses and tweaks and the like always looking for something better or different, that money would be better spent invested in acquiring and properly setting up a good pair of wide dispersion/omni speakers. Then you truly have something new and different to compare.

 Priorities must be set. For me the time I spent, not so much the money, was the downside in developing a high end audio experience. Assembling synergistic components in a sound friendly environment is a major commitment which takes many of us many years to accomplish. What I find sad is the I time lost after this had been accomplished listening to  my 'audio system' that I could have more profitability used  simply learning about and enjoying the music it could produce. That excellent system's sound became a major distraction because of the inclination to think that I could improve its audio aspects. I kept listening to the 'audio', music was important but truly not so much. My solution, and it seems to have worked, was to  purposely dumb down my system down a tad. Now there is no doubt that I could  improve, or at least change, it but I'm confident that what I hear tells me all about the music that I need to know. And I hear it and can ignore the call of the wild!