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. 

 

 

 

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Showing 2 responses by sryeager

If you do try a pair, give them a week or two to settle in.  My bass was crazy at first.

I cannot comment about the smaller Ohm Walsh talls, and I can’t compare them to a lot of other speakers because I was sold on Ohm Walsh for my difficult room when I bought a used pair of Ohm Walsh 4s.  But I totally second the praises sung above for the 5000’s.  I got the 4-5000 upgrade.  The adjustability is wonderful.  Mine are pretty much in the corners of a narrow but very deep room with windows all along one 40 plus foot long wall.  I’ve got the bass set for medium sized room, and turned off the subs.  Even at moderate volume, the sound is massive.  This is not to say the vocals of the Cranberries lose any of their ethereal quality, but over 70db at my listening positions and the music is physically experienced.  The 5000’s are notches above the 4’s of the 80’s.  Percussion, if that’s your thing, is amazing.  I think I’ll put on War’s “The World is a Ghetto” and crank The Cisco Kid.  I can feel it already.

Steve