Ohm Speakers Status Update

I hope to join this merry band of Omni Ohm lovers fairly soon. Having ooohed and aahed over a set of Ohm As I heard back in college circa1972, it remains one of my pinnacle listening experiences in my life. And I am told the current generation of these unusual speakers are now a quantum level better than the originals in sound quality. That is almost impossible to comprehend.

I think I am going to start with a pair of Tall 2000s for my office/music room and if I like them as well as I think I will, go about rebuilding the 3 systems scattered through the main level of my house with the appropriate size Walsh speakers. I am considering for the main listening/theater room a set of 4 F5s with appropriate 500 wpc amplification and Yamaha A8a receiver used in preamp mode only. I am hoping that will provide enough low frequency support that I will not want separate subwoofers. My main listening room is a 15x18 room with a sloped ceiling going from 10' to 20'. The sloped part angles up from right to left when facing the interior short wall. Rather than set everything up on the short wall where everything is asymmetric, I think I am going to nest the equipment rack, tv and LCR speakers on the long wall with the short ceiling. Anyone have any input on what orientation would be best for overall sound quality?

@koestner - I should have said 'an order of magnitude' - thanks for pointing out the true meaning of quantum in that context. I should have known better.

@bondmanp - I appreciate your insight on placement. While I would love to have all the equipment racks off to one side, the layout of the room doesnt permit me that possibility. The good news is that the proposed rack/cabinet is a low boy design in keeping with the desired screen size of 85" which should not impact sound as much as a tall rack would. And given the Ohms like to be out a bit from the wall that should reduce the impact of the low boy cabinet on sound. I love the wide sweet spot with the Walshes it really makes movie and television content come to life even if not sitting in the middle - which I never am if the wife is there with me

I contacted Evan about the muted high end response and asked him about the adjustment hidden behind the connection terminals and he said it didnt exist. Since the pair I bought came from their refurb store, I may have an older model that does not offer the tweeter adjustment. That said I have a pre-processor that has parametric eq built in that can be adjusted manually and I have been playing with that to get the voicing right. I'm not there yet but its much better than they were as delivered. Due to these speakers having such a wide soundstage and sweet spot I will be keeping them. No way they go back after my trial period is over. I have to say they need very little help on the low end. Not quite extended enough for home theater or the extreme low end offered by pipe organs, but for most other music, its hard to find fault. I have been running the 2000s as the front pair in my temporary system until we can get moved back in the house and I find them wonderful in home theater duty, maybe the best I have ever had. Paired with a normal 2 way center channel speaker from JBL, dialogue is nice and clear and the rest of the soundtrack has this wonderful broad sweet spot that allows sitting way off axis and you miss nothing. Surely couldnt say that about the speakers I had before.

I hesitate to open them up lest I break something so I dont know for sure. All I have to go on at this point is Evan's statement that there was no way to adjust the tonal balance on my particular pair. I think I am going to contact him and ask what it would take to do the upgrade. Since i am a retired electronics tech hi might allow me under warranty to do the upgrade. We will see

Hi all!  My Ohm 2000s are NOT equipped with an adjustment for tweeter level. I confirmed that today by removing the speaker connecting panel and there was nothing behind it but wire going to the speaker in the top of the cabinet. THat said I sent an email to Evan about 3pm and before 5:30 he had responded to my comments about a lack of high end with the following words:

I truly regret I never got to meet John or talk to him before he passed, I have no doubt I would have liked him.

One day before too much time passes...we are in an apartment temporarily with little insulation. We had em cranked pretty good for tonights movie. :) My temp cure is thru adding high freq eq and that makes them tolerable but these are seriously lacking up high. We will see what the replacement tweeters do for me that hopefully are not more than a week or two away.