I certainly have more experimenting to do, now wiring in addition to speaker placement, when the furniture arrangement is restored. Unfortunately I cannot move the sofa forward but I’ve tried to sit with several pillows behind me effectively moving me forward at least enough to improve the sound some. As for using a larger Ohm model I’m constrained by budget and speaker size right now. And after a lot of reading I got the strong impression that the MWT would be fine for my listening purposes since I’m sitting under the recommended listening distance of 10 feet and don’t require the sound to fill the entire volume of the total room dimensions I listed. However, if in order to get the speakers to sound proper I need to “load” the rooms total volume then I might be stuck. But again I’ve read multiple places where the MWT worked in much larger than recommended spaces, including in a PS Audio interview and listening session at the Ohm factory in Brooklyn (https://www.psaudio.com/article/ohm-acoustics-part-two-an-inside-look/):
“As a point of listening comparison (to the 2000), the mini Walsh speakers were also brought out from the area outside of the carpentry room. Ohm’s quality control is very impressive – as Evan Cordes explained, the sounds of the mini Walsh and medium-sized Walsh are indistinguishable close up and that the projection distance-capability of the two speakers is what differentiates them, which is how Ohm is able to maintain the overall sonic behavior of its speakers in a wide array of room sizes and space configurations. This is why Ohm dissuades customers from upgrading to larger systems unless the customer’s space configuration has also changed, since bigger will not necessarily be better when it comes to the Walsh design.
All of the Ohm Walsh models are passive speakers. I was told they are agnostic when it comes to power amps and preamps. The Ohms we were auditioning were being fed with a rather humble Outlaw Audio 2160 receiver and a 25-year old-California Audio Labs DX-1 CD player. The speaker wiring was over the counter copper zip cord. Cordes and Strohbeen both stated that the amount of variability in the sound of the Walsh speakers with different power amps and preamp configurations “is about the same as if they were physically moved a few inches.”
Strohbeen noted that Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is the most often requested listening reference from Ohm customers. “More than half the time, just listening to a few songs from Dark Side is all they need to hear.” Alan Parsons’ meticulous mix of this timeless classic rock landmark simply sounded amazing on the small Walsh speakers, with the only difference from its larger cousin being the projection distance, where the volume started to level off after walking 20 feet back. The intelligibility of dialogue underscoring parts of “Us and Them” was superb, and did not demand cranking the volume to discern the words, something that’s often a requirement even with headphones. The “sweet-sweep” gave the wide stereo panning effects an almost cinematic surround sound-like breadth in spite of the source coming from the two lone Walsh minis.”
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