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

Hi,

I'd love to hear the impressions of people who've actually spent some time with these speakers to share their sense of their plusses and minuses. Mapman here on Audiogon is a big fan, and has shared lots on them, but I'm wondering who else might be familiar with them.
rebbi
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mapman
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Bond,

Your surround sound experience with the Walshes is very interesting. I have not read much about Walshes in surround sound systems and I do not do surround sound, so this is all news to me. My gut instinct is that the wide range omni Walsh design is a natural for surround sound despite the fact that the basic Walsh design was in existence way before home surround sound systems.

BTW I noticed that someone has a pair of wall mount Walshes for surround sound up for auction here currently.
frazeur1
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Bond, you are using just "regular" micro-talls right? I was talking with John Strohbeen about using them for surround duty, he says they will work fine, but the omni version of them works even better for surround duties. I would love to hear the differences as I was thinking of possibly trying that myself with my 3000's as the fronts.

Map, glad to hear the pre is okay and that your new Bels are doing the business! Enjoy!
parasound63
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The surround thing is interesting to me as well. I'm hoping to have surround within the next year, and another set of MWT's or the MW Walls is on my list.

I also plan on skipping the center channel and using the speakers in phantom mode.
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mapman
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"I was talking with John Strohbeen about using them for surround duty, he says they will work fine, but the omni version of them works even better for surround duties."

I think the omni version does not employ the internal damping in the wall facing directions (at least not in the same configuration) and the super tweeter is mounted to face up rather than angled forward. There may be other tweaks as well to go along with these.
frazeur1
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Yep, that is basically what is going on in the omni version Map. I would think either one would do a fine job though with proper positioning.

With the time I have played with my 3's in the front left/right, I don't feel a need for a center either. I think that would obviously depend on distance apart/screen size too.

I am still debating the whole surround-sound thing anyway, and it is hard to break with the traditional 2-channel sound that I love and know. But I have found it doesn't mean that you can't do both nearly as well, might just cost a little more! Tim
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