Reviews

A little History It was 1983. My search for a “high-end” speaker took me to all the local salons to result in the purchase of my first pair of Ohm Acoustics loudspeakers. The floorstanding and remarkably full-range Ohm Walsh 4 set me back $1500 and left me one happy audiophile. They were so good that I bought a pair of the smaller Walsh 1 for another room a bit later. Fourteen years …

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Father-in-Law’s System The system I’m about to describe does not reside in my home but rather at my father-in-law’s. Still, I know this system exceedingly well. As it happens, the source is a Sony CDP-C69 ES-series CD player – a player of solid enough performance that frankly never impressed me either way as anything special, though it has always done its job. And at the other …

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“The size of these speakers (49-5/8 inches overall height by 13-5/16 inches wide by 17-5/16 inches deep) doesn’t exactly permit them to fade away into visual nonexistence, but the quality of the sound that emanates from them encourages a lot of oversight. To my eyes, they’re not beautiful; to my ears, they are. But really, that’s what speakers are all about–making …

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Since those early formative days, I’ve run across many ‘non-traditional’ loudspeaker designs, ranging from electrostats to horns to the needs-no-description B&W Nautilus. However, that first encounter with a pair of Ohms has always left unanswered questions in my mind: What were those? Is Ohm even still around? Ohm is, indeed, still around and produces a full line of …

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Yo! Speakers with casters. Now THAT I am used to. The woof, woof, woofers that I have for my bass guitar in our Jazz ensemble are all on casters, with the amp sitting on top. Of course, the Ohm 200s look a LOT nicer, with the Rosewood veneer. All my guitar woofers face outward, but the Ohm speakers use a design called the Walsh, after the man who invented it. The main driver sits on top of the …

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How do you like your eggs? Ohm Acoustics recommends them over easy at 45 degrees. No, this hard-boiled stereo writer hasn`t cracked. Ohm mounts the three-fourths-inch dome tweeter of its CAM 32 speaker system in an egg-shaped enclosure that swivels. The company refers to it in its manual as “The Egg.“ The plug-in egg tweeter comes wrapped separately from the woofer enclosure. The …

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SOUND; Speakers With Some Room to Move By Hans Fantel Published: May 14, 1989 Loudspeakers with variable patterns of sound radiation are rare. Any newcomer to their ranks is bound to arouse interest - especially if the design is musically competent and notably cheap. All of this applies to the CAM-16 by Ohm Acoustics, which uses a clever and effective method to fit the speaker’s sound …

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I like Brooklyn. I even got married under the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge! (Almost the exact spot where Cher’s grandfather let his dogs howl at the moon in Moonstruck. And if you’re ever in the Park Slope area, check out McFeeley’s for brunch.) I could be forgiven, therefore, for having a soft spot for any Brooklyn manufacturer, including Ohm Acoustics. Except that the only …

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