Reviews

Product of the Day #42: Ohm Walsh 3000 Speakers Ohm Walsh 3000 Speakers (new cabinets have rounded corners) Longtime readers of the column and my website know I have long been a fan of Walsh speakers from Ohm Acoustics. My first pair of high-quality speakers were Ohm Walsh 1s, which I purchased years ago and still have today. Ohm Walsh 2, Ohm F, and Ohm A Since then I have listened to and …

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“So, after all the lugging, titling, reversing and breaking-in – how did the speakers sound? Really good. Really good but especially good considering how small they are. In another review I read how the reviewer was amazed at the amount and quality of the bass that the little Ohm’s were able to generate and I’ll admit that I agree.” “Bass aside, I found the Ohm’s to be incredibly …

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Review: Ohm Acoustics Walsh 5 Series 3 Speaker Category: Speakers Bottom line: Yes, I think these are world class speakers that are relatively affordable, that work well with good or even great electonics, without spending a fortune, and despite the modest price, and pre-requisites in term of the supporting system, can compete with the best at most any price. About 1 year ago, after several …

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As a class, I think omni-directional speakers suffer somewhat of a bum rap when it comes to their imaging and soundstaging characteristics. I’m forever getting emails asking if the “artificiality” of the omni-directional presentation grows old after a while - as though it were somewhat akin to listening to music in a reverb chamber. Nothing could be further from the truth. While …

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A little History It was 1983. My search for a “high-end” speaker took me to all the local salons to result in the purchase of my first pair of Ohm Acoustics loudspeakers. The floorstanding and remarkably full-range Ohm Walsh 4 set me back $1500 and left me one happy audiophile. They were so good that I bought a pair of the smaller Walsh 1 for another room a bit later. Fourteen years …

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Father-in-Law’s System The system I’m about to describe does not reside in my home but rather at my father-in-law’s. Still, I know this system exceedingly well. As it happens, the source is a Sony CDP-C69 ES-series CD player — a player of solid enough performance that frankly never impressed me either way as anything special, though it has always done its job. And at the other …

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Since those early formative days, I’ve run across many ‘non-traditional’ loudspeaker designs, ranging from electrostats to horns to the needs-no-description B&W Nautilus. However, that first encounter with a pair of Ohms has always left unanswered questions in my mind: What were those? Is Ohm even still around? Ohm is, indeed, still around and produces a full line of …

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Yo! Speakers with casters. Now THAT I am used to. The woof, woof, woofers that I have for my bass guitar in our Jazz ensemble are all on casters, with the amp sitting on top. Of course, the Ohm 200s look a LOT nicer, with the Rosewood veneer. All my guitar woofers face outward, but the Ohm speakers use a design called the Walsh, after the man who invented it. The main driver sits on top of the …

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