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


Hi,

I'd love to hear the impressions of people who've actually spent some time with these speakers to share their sense of their plusses and minuses. Mapman here on Audiogon is a big fan, and has shared lots on them, but I'm wondering who else might be familiar with them.
rebbi

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I have been using a pair of Ohm 200 MKIIs in my system for about 12 years. I have made regular upgrades to the system based on my impression of the "weak link in the chain". After each change the Ohms have been fully capable of revealing the improvement in system performance. My last upgrade was the addition of a very high end Thor preamp which made a dramatic improvement. I will be traveling to Montreal this week to retrieve a pair of Classe DR3-VHC super high current monoblocks that I had recapped and have never used. These amps were desinged to drive Apogee Scintillas. I fully expect another huge improvement in system performance. The point of this is that whatever changes I have made, the Ohms have responded and I have never considered them the weakest link. Pretty remarkable for a pair of $2000 speakers. I will probably be considering a driver update, but definitely not replacement.
1 watt into the Ohms,which are not highly efficient, will probably not even be audible or barely so.
I have driven my Ohms with 32 watt/ channel tube amp. Tubes will usually produce higher spl than ss at same output, but I did experience a couple of instances of amp clipping so in my experience there is a risk of equipment damage at this power level.
Mapman, that coincides exactly with my personal experience with the 200 mkIIs. I drove them with 32 watts of tube power for years. On the few occasions that I experienced amplifier clipping, it was in every case very dynamic low frequency reproduction that caused it. The bad part, amps were not being pushed harder than normal and no warning. Also more likely to occur with better than average recordings. Fortuneately no damage ever done. Musically the combination was excellent.
I have just recently become aware of the HHR Exotics company who also build speakers based on the Lincoln Walsh drivers. Anyone have personal experience with these?