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

My upgrade kit came this week, so -- after getting physical with a couple of glued in crossover boards -- I now have Walsh 2.2000s. My question is, can someone who owns something from the 1000s line give me a ballpark figure for how many hours in took to fully break these guys in?

Batch,

I am familiar with the Walsh 2 upgrade process but never been through it. Doesn't sound too bad again if one is comfortable with ripping out teh old boards in the base and working a glue gun. I did the glue gun bit once on my old Walsh 2s to reattach some internal braces that had become detached over the years. Not too bad!

Don't have 1000 series but I suspect full breakin could take up to weeks/months depending on usage levels and volumes applied.

I have always wondered about adding/subtracting/rearranging damping material used internally on the Walshes as an easy tweak to try if needed, but have never spent time experimenting extensively. Might be worth it for some that might feel their OHMs are over or under damped in their application.

I've recently heard a speaker that 'out-walshes' the Ohm Walsh. I've owned the Walsh 2s, 4s, and 5's (older and newer series). I have a speaker fanatic friend who picked up a pair of Artistic Audio Mobius speakers which use two spherical dome midrange drivers in a bi-polar configuration with two tweeters suspended in front of them. There are bass woofers at the base of the speakers to make them more full range. They are very cool (think modern art) looking and sound incredible! Only thing is they take a lot of power (in my opinion) to sound their best. At least a good quality 100wpc amp or something with a high current design (parasound would be a good choice that comes to mind). Artistic Audio went out of business I hear and the story is they have like 1000 pair of speakers in a wharehouse in Kansan City, waiting for the bankruptcy to clear before someone can sell them off or dispose of them. They went for about $2500 retail. I like them better than the Ohms. Better build and better sounding. Just my two cents....

Interesting. The Mobius got one of the only negative reviews I've ever seen on 6Moons. What kind of equipment does your friend have them hooked up to?

Tex,

Yes, those are an interesting approach to a point source/wide dispersion/omni type design!

I would only point out that they do not appear to make any use of Walsh driver technology though, so they can't "out-Walsh" anything in that sense, for what its worth.

AN interesting design and maybe a very good value as well though. I would like to hear those.