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In Reply to: Re: Ohm F posted by Bill the K on March 6, 2007 at 09:15:03:
Yes, it is my understanding that Mr.Peter Aczel was involved early on with the Ohm F. He left (on his own or asked to leave) the development team a couple of years before the product went to market.The Lincoln Walsh invention still lives on in it most "pure" (omni directional) forms in the German Physik speakers and those from Huff Systems (Huff System 3). It may be interesting to visit their web sites. In these iterations of the technology are *very* expensive.
But the most accessible/practical form of the technology can be found in the current Ohm Speakers line of products which use a modified form of the technology that, among other things, has 180 degrees dispersion instead of 360 and uses a tweeter to augment the range of the Walsh driver above 8 khz (Ohm does not say for sure). There are those that swear that the Ohm line, especially their top speakers (the Ohm 300 series I think) is absolutely the best kept secret out there with respect to top tier sound quality. I have not heard this latest generation so I cannot say. But a visit to the Ohm Speakers web site is enlightening.
In the purest forms, like the Ohm A and Ohm F had in the 70s and 80s, when set up properly (5 feet from the back wall and 3-4 from the side walls in a medium size to large room, competed/exceeded with the best I heard at the time (Beveridge and any other electrostatic, for example). But the speaker was grossly inefficient and didn't have sufficient dynamic range for the digital source recordings that began to emerge in the 80. Plus that huge one-way driver was/is probably the most expensive or certainly one of the most expensive drivers ever produced.
But that 30+ year old design had certain attributes, probably stemming from its one way coherent and omni directional design, that even the mega cost speakers (that are far superior, no doubt) of today can't quite match.
Robert C. Lang
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- Re: Ohm F - Robert C. Lang 10:29:46 03/06/07 (1)
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