@audionoobie , this is a tough discussion to have because I am going to piss off a bunch of people. When I was a HiFi salesman back in Miami I sold Ohms speakers. They are at first impressive speakers in the same way that Bose 901s are impressive. They are smooth and inoffensive. Their problems are that their high frequencies (above 10kHz) are poorly defined and they are omnidirectional which use to be thought of as an advantage but in reality creates severe problems in most rooms resulting in lack luster imaging. It is a cool idea but it just does not work well. It works well enough like the 901 works well enough. There are many people who think they are great sounding loudspeakers and I would tell you that they are either not critical listeners or they really do not know what to listen for. There are more of these people around then there are guys like me. Bose made a fortune off them and Ohm is still very much alive although you might notice that nobody else uses this design and it is long off patent.
Ohm Walsh Talls (opinions sought)
I demo'd the 1000's at the Ohm factory in Brooklyn several years back. This was way back when I first started my journey into hi end audio. My faint recollection of them was that they were very musical and easy to listen to.
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how they would compare sound wise to the Vandersteen 1ci. Is there anyone out there with experience with both speakers?
Incidentally, I spoke with Jake from Ohm this morning. He said that current lead times are around 5 months and he expects that timeframe to shorten moving forward as they got slammed with orders last summer.