Ohm Walsh Loudspeakers
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W9TR
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My first pair of decent speakers were Ohm Model F's purchased new in 1976. Here's an interesting article on the F's.
https://www.cnet.com/news/forty-years-ago-the-ohm-f-speaker-was-a-game-changer-it-still-is/
They needed a lot of power, and I ended up up blowing them up several times. The joke was they sounded good at 200 watts and blew up at 201 watts. I traded them in for Walsh IV speakers and used those for several years before moving on. The Walsh IV's were the predecessor of what Ohm is selling today. I thought they sounded very good, better treble, but lost some of that Ohm F magic.
Fast forward 30 years and I restored a set of Ohm F's which I still use today at our lake home. The drivers were restored at Millersound. They are far better than the originals in terms of efficiency and power handling.
Today, there are so many great options out there I would definitely want to evaluate OHM's latest offering against similarly priced more conventional designs.
The MBL 101 series speakers are a great alternative to the Ohm F's- albeit at a stratospheric price.
Here is a picture of my restored Ohm F's:
https://www.cnet.com/news/forty-years-ago-the-ohm-f-speaker-was-a-game-changer-it-still-is/
They needed a lot of power, and I ended up up blowing them up several times. The joke was they sounded good at 200 watts and blew up at 201 watts. I traded them in for Walsh IV speakers and used those for several years before moving on. The Walsh IV's were the predecessor of what Ohm is selling today. I thought they sounded very good, better treble, but lost some of that Ohm F magic.
Fast forward 30 years and I restored a set of Ohm F's which I still use today at our lake home. The drivers were restored at Millersound. They are far better than the originals in terms of efficiency and power handling.
Today, there are so many great options out there I would definitely want to evaluate OHM's latest offering against similarly priced more conventional designs.
The MBL 101 series speakers are a great alternative to the Ohm F's- albeit at a stratospheric price.
Here is a picture of my restored Ohm F's:
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Phil A
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I use a pair of Ohm Microwalsh Talls with a Rel Strata III sub and a Hegel H190 in a spare system. I know other people with Ohms as well.
UltraFast69
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Are the talls Omni Directional?
Are your components built into the fireplace?
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UltraFast69
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My first pair of decent speakers were Ohm Model F's purchased new in 1976. Here's an interesting article on the F's.
https://www.cnet.com/news/forty-years-ago-the-ohm-f-speaker-was-a-game-changer-it-still-is/
They needed a lot of power, and I ended up up blowing them up several times. The joke was they sounded good at 200 watts and blew up at 201 watts. I traded them in for Walsh IV speakers and used those for several years before moving on. The Walsh IV's were the predecessor of what Ohm is selling today. I thought they sounded very good, better treble, but lost some of that Ohm F magic.
Fast forward 30 years and I restored a set of Ohm F's which I still use today at our lake home. The drivers were restored at Millersound. They are far better than the originals in terms of efficiency and power handling.
Today, there are so many great options out there I would definitely want to evaluate OHM's latest offering against similarly priced more conventional designs.
The MBL 101 series speakers are a great alternative to the Ohm F's- albeit at a stratospheric price.
Here is a picture of my restored Ohm F's:
Hey Tom
I remember you talking about these speakers, and now after watching a MBL video and hearing them at the show I now get what OHM began doing decades ago.
I do like their approach updating customers speakers in an ongoing fashion.
I wonder if MBL learned of these and did their thing?
The article mentions 300 and 301, you indicate 200 and 201, curious?
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Phil A
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Not a fireplace. Just the audio furniture. The way the room is shaped (not a square or rectangle with an angled doorway in front and an angled closet in the rear underneath the stairs to the bonus room), it was hard to fit most furniture and speakers in the width I had (was originally going to get MMGs but even they were too wide). Below is a pic (with older components I had at the time) that shows a view not as close-up.
Phil A
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System sounds really nice. Perfect the small bedroom it's in, especially with the bass supplemented with the Rel Strata III sub. I don't use the system tons, but with the main system sounding really great, it's nice to have something that's a bit different but good as well. I don't have the Hegel H190 in there tons of time (probably about 6 months) and it's probably at the point where it has started to break in. Here's a review that describes the sound - http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/walsh/micro.html As I noted, the width I have to work with (as noted in the prior post) is limited. I was going to go with MMGs but when the house was in the unfinished sheetrock phase, I measured and looked at lots of furniture and it was obvious I needed something with a narrow footprint. The speakers sat in a closet for about a year (I found them lightly used locally) while I went back and forth from Northern VA to FL and then I put the system together from things I had laying around. When I upgraded the main system amp, I broke it in using this system and I realized the shortcomings of the old Bryston 3BST I had used (I always wrongly assumed it was the speakers) and when I finished some upgrades I traded my old main system amp for the Hegel 190 and it sounds really great with them.
W9TR
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Hi Ed,
The MBL's I've heard at shows played at pretty high volumes and didn't compress or break up so I think MBL has taken the technology where it needed to be for a viable commercial product. I really like those speakers.
200 to 201, 300 to 301; not sure where the original joke came from, either way they were pretty easy to smoke and ohm couldn't figure out how to fix them so they offered a Walsh IV trade in which I thought was a great idea.
Randy Myers
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Back when I worked in a stereo store the Ohm was a very nice line of speakers. We did always had a pair of the Ohm Walsh 5's setup and they received a lot of interest. I do not recall selling a lot. I seem to remember that we sold a ton of lower Ohm's off the Walsh 5's.