Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em?

And some contrary views by Ted Jordan

"It would seem at first logical to design loudspeaker systems to have the widest possible angle of distribution, in fact the omni-directional design would seem ideal - actually this is quite untrue. It is now generally recognised that omni-directional systems have never been popular, although the reasons have not been appreciated, and these are:

A random radiation of sound in all directions results in an excessive ratio of reflected to direct sound and the subjective quality tends to be thin and very dependent upon room acoustics.
It is not possible for an omni-directional system to provide satisfactory stereophonic performance."

Bondmanp, not the Ohms, but I've heard Duevel's. I just remember the actual sound quality, IMHO, to be inferior to regular speakers like Epos, etc. It's been a while, but while the dimensionality was vague, it was far more natural and realistic than a box design.

I hope to hear the Ohms at home when I have a suitable comparison. Should be interesting comparing a single driver "headphone for your ears" (also goes for some Audio Physic designs) vs. omni. I like the statement that you know a speaker working correctly when it is doing the soundstaging correct

Mapman, I DID like the soundstaging of the Duevel's. I was referring the the quality of the drivers, not the spatial effects.

Thinking out loud:
Single driver: I would describe the soundstaging as transporting you to the event. When in the sweet spot, it's like your are there.

Omni's more bring the event to your room. This is good as one dealer commented, a quality of a good stereo is that it can be enjoyed by everyone, no matter where they sit.
Bad as the omni concept could be basically flawed because, unless the recording is done in an anechoic chamber, it already brings it own spatialilty to the recording and omni's just add room reverb to what is always on the recording, confusing the issue.

Actually IMHO neither single driver or omni is the best. The best concept is the waveguide. His prices are pretty reasonable too.
Even polar response = equal power response and may be one reason why B&W sound good, despite all their other faults. Sounds like Ohm does the same thing by dampening the side which faces the front wall.

Matrykl

The problem with choosing a design concept is that it ignores the execution, which is almost always the more important factor.

Which is why I didn't like the Deuval's and most active speakers although I like both concepts.
But what do you think about waveguide's, at least in theory?

Put another way, what happens when the recording has reverb and then the omni speaker, by design, intentionally adds more due to room interactions?

How would these compare to DecWare ERR Radials? Are there other similar designs out there? I didn't know of these but came across them by chance.

I haven't read every post here so forgive me if this has already been asked.

If you sit in the sweet spot of a conventional speaker, would the Ohm's differ if you dropped them into the same spot? IOW, is it only when you start moving out of the sweet spot that omni speakers start to shine?

(My apologies if this has been asked already.)