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

Finally got the time to install the upgraded 2.2000 drivers in my Walsh 1 cabinets. The install was straight forward, but did require some finesse to install the drivers in the top of the cabinet. I'm not a wood guy so I had to pay attention to removing all the old particle board/glue residue before re-gluing the new board in place.

Once assembled and when the glue had set up, I had the chance to try the speakers out. The volume was kept at a sane level for a couple of CDs and then I started to increase the sound level.

The result was a definite increase in the bass response (expected) and a good clean, balanced sound through the range. The new drivers are smooth and consistant. The old drivers (both the OW1 and OW2) had some holes in the frequency range where the the volume fall-off was obvious.

I am aware that some time has to pass for the break-in period. My plan is to just play them without being too critical until a couple of months have passed.

As is, they are better by far than the old drivers and I am happy. I shouldn't need to do much to my current system except enjoy it for now.

To review, I'm running a B&K Reference 5 S2 preamp into a Parasound HCA1500A amp. My source is a Yamaha CD-S300 player connected by standard RCA cable to the B&K preamp. I have a set of Marrow MA1 interconnects from the preamp to the amp. The speaker connection is 14GA bare-ended standard type wire. Speaker placement is about 6' apart and a foot from the back wall.

I have no illusions about being an audiophile, I just want good sound. Any suggestions are welcome.

Frazeur1, the old board was removed with a hammer and is destroyed in the process. The new board has the driver already mounted and fits into the existing space after all the old glue/board remains are removed. I used a file to help smooth things out.

The directions talked about using wood glue and no mention was made of "hot-glue" as some have talked about on this thread.

The new cross-over was screwed into the bottom of the cabinet and can be removed if necessary as it has a contour switch on it (low/medium/high) that, I believe, affects the bass response.

As I didn't have any grills before, I don't have a reference as to whether the new grills are different than the originals due to the new drivers. They fit equally as well on both.

It is too bad that this site doesn't allow photo posting on the threads as I could show you better what I'm talking about.

FYI, as I understand it, there is no actual crossover in the x000 Walsh line.  Just a resister to protect the tweeter below about 7 kHz.  The Walsh driver rolls off naturally at around 7-8 kHz.