"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Happened to see their new line of speakers at their
website and if the new ones sound as good as the last
pair I heard, they should still be a good value.

Speaking as an ex-Ohm F owner, historically the Walsh technology has been
greviously flawed.

The composite metal cone of the Ohm A & F rang like a bell. The so-called
termination at the bottom of the cone was more of a reflector than a
terminator. The cone was very heavy which made the speaker very
inefficient. However, the voice coil had to perform as the voice coil of a
tweeter. That meant that dynamic range was very limited and voice coil
burnout was a constant threat. In order to make the voice coil light, they
had to sacrifice Xmax, big time. As soon as you drove them in the bass
range, there was a ton of intermodulation.

The second generation Ohm speakers were a travesty because they sacrificed
most of the unique potential benefits of the the first generation speakers
in order to address some of the problems I listed above.

There were or are some German Walsh driver speakers, but from what I could
see they shared a lot of problems with the first generation Walshes,
described above.



They seem to be aware of the problems without actually saying so. They
offer upgrades of all their old speakers and the new ones have a tweeter
now. On paper they seem pretty good, and I liked the way they set up a big
soundstage. Still would like to see tests on the new line to see how they
may have improved.

Perhaps I should take it as a hint that there are no reviews from any of the
bigger, well known magazines.