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

In the middle of a project but I will get back later for more info, and a continuation 
of the project....🇸🇪

Among whatever other differences there might be a ribbon tweeter would be significantly more directional than a soft dome.  That alone could make a difference in regards to intelligible vocals especially depending on room acoustics.  

I would wonder if it if it affects the size of sweet spot for music as well?.    

Back again...
Bondmanp If you did hear my changes you would be blown away.
Suddenly I have total and utter Transparancy and speed, could it be better? Yes I could I wish for more dynamics, but the Walsh driver is tiny and can't hang with my fronts...Wish I have more space to expand the unit to a larger one. By the way, it looks like the tweeter
is the same as the 4/5k's  1" softdome tweeter.
I'll get back to the driver and my thoughts in a bit.

Now to the surrounds....
I have six spread out as, front heights, surrounds and rear surrounds
enveloping me in a lovely sound field.
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As I previously said I took the can opener to all (9) of my Ohm's
and I had no idea what to expect, but what I found inside the  
Walsh Satellites was.......shocking and absolutely sub par, total
diy a mess of proportions  that was way below the worst I ever seen.

For some reasons Ohm thinks that out of sight is out of mind (I will not post any images) but let's say that hot-melt glue was liberally applied to the point of glue dripping everywhere like stalagmites 
In a horror movie. The Walsh driver looks cheap and the paper tweeter is an incredibly cheap ($2-$3) retail driver, two out of six had collapsed dust caps.
As this is a $700 a pair of speakers, there's no excuses for this kind of horrible craftsmanship and I hope someone at the factory take this to heart and make some changes.
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After getting over over the shock, I decided to replace the tweeter
with a $17 Dayton ND25-FA-4 unit. To remove the crap paper tweeter I had to break lose the glue with an exacto knife and a sharp chisel and un-solder the driver without trying to ripp out any caps or 
resistors that were hot-glued to the tweeter.
Installing the tweeters was easy peasy and I was able to aim the tweeters to my required situation due to a slopping roof line.
Result: Smoother tweeting all the way around, with more air and refinement and less stress at high levels. Now we're talking and I feel much better about my investment.
PS. I still had to use hot-melt glue.....lol

Just got a few Robert Shaw CD's in mail so I'm signing off
for now and I'll get back to the big boys in a bit....🇸🇪

It’s true aesthetics don’t matter and are out of sight and mind inside those cans. A nice design advantage for sure. Even hot glue can be used to good effect apparently since you don’t have to look at it. I suspect it might even have some useful damping qualities sonically but just a guess. French speaker maker Triangle uses paper for bass drivers in their speakers which are some of the fastest and most detailed around for the money but those are in plain sight and made to a higher aesthetic standard as well accordingly.

If the sound is not up to par for the money then that’s totally different.

I still run Ohm Ls with paper tweeter over other newer much fancier and expensive models from other brands. Ribbon tweeter would be nice there I’m sure. Paper ain’t fancy but can sound surprisingly good. Of course a lot of cheap bad sounding speakers have used paper and other tweeters over the years as well.


Did the the center channel speaker use paper tweeter also?

I’m a two channel only guy so can’t really vouch for anything when it comes to surround sound.

Did the surrounds all sound similar bad or were issues with just some?

You should ask JS why he uses paper tweeters in the surrounds other than for the fact they likely help keep manufacturing costs low.   I find it hard to believe he would use bad sounding parts in his speakers.  

im pretty sure he does not use ribbon tweets because ribbons tend to be highly directional which is not the Ohm Walsh thing.