Reviews

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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The folks at Ohm would love to have us believe that there “is no place like Ohm.” I know Dorothy believes that, but last time I listened to the Walsh 5 there were enough things wrong with it to spoil the Ohm-coming. To be sure, there was plenty of imaging magic; you might even say that, indeed, “there’s no space like Ohm.” But a slightly opaque and colored midrange …

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Equally meritorious and even bolder in its conceptual audacity is the Ohm Walsh 5. While the Allison speaker is a thoughtful elaboration of an established design genre, the Ohm is a radical departure from all norms. Based on patents by the late Lincoln Walsh, a California physicist, this speaker is shaped as a flat-topped pyramid, 43 inches high and l7 1/2 inches square at the bottom. At the …

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…is one of the most uniform and extended response curves that I have measured from a loudspeaker. …bass distortion is exceptionally low. The Walsh 5 is one of the cleanest speakers available…there seemed to be no limit to the clean low end that these speakers could deliver….The Walsh’s ability to handle 200 watt sine waves between 20 and 40 Hz is so unusual …

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Just within the last few months, a Brooklyn-based company named Ohm Acoustics attracted international attention with a highly innovative speaker design called the Ohm Walsh 2. Named after the late Lincoln Walsh, a physicist who first formulated its design concept, this speaker thumbs its nose at established norms to combine two normally contradictory attributes: multidirectional sound spread and …

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