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Are Ohm Walsh's a step up from Martin Login Electro Motion ESL's

I currently have a hapr of Martin Login Electro Motion ESL's and I will never get rid of them, but in my current house only one person can trully be in the sweet spot for the speakers, and it does get a little annoying how fast you can get off axis.  I really want to find something beautilf sounding in a small room that just feels like you are there.  The one speaker that keeps coming up that can do this are Ohm Walshes.  I have been looking at the Ohm Walsh 2's and doing an upgrade (speakers on my terrms) or looking at the tall 2000s.   I really want to find a speaker that is my last speaker for a long time. 

I am driving my speakers with Odessy Kismet Mono block's and a Schiit Freya+ with RCA JAN 5692's in the gain side and PSVANE COSSOR 6SN7 in the buffer side.  

Have anyone compared Ohm's to Martin Logan's.  Anything else I should be looking at.  My budget is $4000+ but I also am a guy that likes rebuilds of things.  I primarily listen to Rock and Jazz

justinrphillips

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douglas_schroeder
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All speakers will leap in sound quality with improvements of the system. The improvement is relative, not absolute, as though the MLs are now vastly outstripping the performance of other speakers. There are dozens of levels of such improvement on the performance spectrum of systems.  

 

Ohms in that room could be problematic. With one close to a corner, the response could be skewed in terms of reflection from the L speaker. 

douglas_schroeder
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A true omni is not an ideal recommendation for that room if the positioning is that close to wall, and because of the corner. The man would have to treat the corner, which could screw up the M/T. It might be a different story if the room could be rearranged and the speakers moved out further. YMMV

How about for a start you not toe in the ML speakers. You’re complaining about how narrow the sweet spot is, but you have them toed in. So, change it and put them parallel to the head wall. Obviously this will open up the center image, but you’ll have perhaps enough size for two to listen. You’re not going to get much out into the room at all with those speakers. You would need a different genre.

douglas_schroeder
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mapman, yes, that's why I stated true omni as problematic. He could make a quasi-omni work, but still it's not ideal. I concur with there not being a clear step up transitioning from small ESL to small omni. He could force the issue, but has a wall all along one side versus open on the other which might slaugter the soundstage. Who knows how much that would screw up a pair of omni speakers. Imo it would be the least favored genre of speaker to use for that location. 

You iknow I'm not anti-omni; I have the Walsh Model F running now along with the Legacy XTREME XD Subs. Maybe it's just me, but they sound very good with nostaliga music from the 70's. 

 

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