"Clyde Slick" wrote in message
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"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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wrote:
Happened to see their new line of speakers at their website and if the
new
ones sound as good as the lasty pair I heard, they should still be a
good
value.
The last time I heard them they were at a CES show set up in a hotel
room,
possibly one of the poorest places to put a hi-fi system, but the sound
was
very realistically 3D.. They seem to have improved the response from
those
days and now seem only to sell factory direct.
Anybody heard anything from their newer line and if so your impressions.
They were bad then and are probably bad now.
They were quite horrible in the 80's
though "at least" not as bad as Bose.
Bose had lots of physical holes
but Walsh had lots of frequency holes!
It's not the 80's anynore, or even the 30's but you still have antique
technology.
I saw and heard the Ohm F at CES and it was easliy the most impressive
speaker system there, even with a frequency cutoof on the top end of 17 kHz.
Simialr effect to Bose but vastly better in terms of overall spaciousness
and a much tighter sound.
Current models include a tweeter that covers the rest of the high frequency
range.
Unfortunately they are apparently only available factory direct so there's
no place I know of to hear them before purchase, although they do allow a
120 day in house approval period.