Post by gerbilaudio on Jun 21, 2011 7:20:50 GMT -5
theresa, the OHM WALSH 300 MK 2 or any of the ohm's sound like what the late john potis used to review them say, which is electrostat, planar sounding but using dynamic drivers which the walsh CLS design does. My only issue with the CLS design is the dome tweeter or super tweeter. I have no problem with a well designed dome only if it's used in an array form sort of like mcintosh and others or many of the DIY designers. I would have preferred they used more exotic drivers especially when they are charging 4k to 6k for their higher models such as the older 300 mk 2, The soundstage is very convincing especially in the mid and bass department, but like any other well made loudspeaker you and I know, they have to be matched with good quality electronics, oh wait? EMOTIVA! I actually use my beloved carver/sunfire amps for them as I am a big fan of bob carver and anything he designs. Like you,I'm never really fully satisfied and always curious about other designs even though i'm a happy OHM collector, like walsh 2x0, 200 mk 2, 4x0, pro 200 cylinder. I am a big maggie fan owning SMC, .05 which I sold and kept my MG 2.5R and MGLRS-1, the ohm's I believe is the best well rounded reproducer of all my loudspeakers. if I was just focusing on piano, I say the MAGGIES, they're hard to beat in that area, when it comes to SOUNDSTAGE, it's hard to beat an electrostat unless it's an infinity RS V or similar LINESOURCE like pipedreams, nola and genesis or mcintosh. My janszen add on's at 800hz crossover just puts any of the speaker system I have to another level. I believe janszen and ess heil made two of the best ever mid/high transducer ever made. My eminent technology lft 8a is the most convincing to me as long as you couple it with a good bass unit such as a sub, because the 8 inch push pull design takes a lot of current to get it started. On home theater, geez, I've never heard glass sound so real and door closing as the EMINENT TECH. My acoustat spectra 33 is the most realistic, but you need plenty of room which i don't have anymore and lots of juice which i do have since I have tons of carver amps and now emotiva, but it's in the storage because I have no room and everyone who ever had an acoustat, they know they are HUGE. The key to any electrostats performance is the width and height of the panels, the wider and higher, the bigger the sound, so final and the newer mid grade martin logans defeat the purpose of electrostat soundstaging. I would say my OHM's are the best all around stereo and home theater among all my speakers. I also have lots of bookshelf like ess heil and an ess heil floorstander 1D. My various SLS ribbon bookshelfs are very awesome monitors as well. I also have a sunfire CRM 2's which i use for one of my smaller systems. I also have linaeum, klipsch, wharfedale, audio pro, dcm, BIC. other floorstander are SRSLABS klayman signature designed for home theater and now defunct and a vintage DBX SOUNDFIELD 10 which doesn't work without the equalizer like the bose 901's which i owned in the 80's stacked in 2 pairs. I gave up on bose in the 90's. The truth about loudspeakers is that there is NO one loudspeaker system that fits everybody no matter how hard and how expensive the designers try to acheive. Some people like boxed speakers or dynamic designs, some like ribbons, horns, planars,electrostats, linesource, CLS or some form of a hybrid and those who have technical knowledge DIY projects. In fact, some of the best designs are DIY. I used to do DIY's but just into modding these days. I remember in high school long time ago, I designed a subwoofer the shape of TOILET! You took about flushing speakers!!! or the SOUND!!!
