Psssst! Hey, buddy! Wanna buy a speaker company?

mhardy6647
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Ohm is for sale. (Considerably) less than a million bucks and it could be yours.
https://www.bizquest.com/business-for-sale/custom-speaker-manufacturer-brooklyn-new-york/BW2084589/

Heck, around here in 2023 you can't get much of a piece of property with a house on it for the asking price.

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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,130
    edited July 2023
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,891
    Liked me some Ohm speaks back in the day.
    Hopefully some young guy with a love for
    the brand will buy and "reboot" the company.

    I suppose the first thing I would do is move the company
    out of NY.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,044
    SIHAB wrote: »
    Liked me some Ohm
    So did John Lennon.

    He even wrote a song about them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90M60PzmxEE
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,891
    BTW, why was he trying to rule daver?
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,044
    SIHAB wrote: »
    BTW, why was he trying to rule daver?

    Because Brian Epstein died and he had no one else to meet in the park. :p
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    SIHAB wrote: »
    Liked me some Ohm speaks back in the day.
    Hopefully some young guy with a love for
    the brand will buy and "reboot" the company.

    I suppose the first thing I would do is move the company
    out of NY.

    You and me both. :)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,412
    They had some great speakers and like original Polk supported them for decades.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    They had some great speakers and like original Polk supported them for decades.

    That they did.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,995
    I always wanted to try a set of Ohm speakers.
    Anyone ever have any?

    Are they a room-fill type experience vs. stereo imaging type?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited July 2023
    msg wrote: »
    I always wanted to try a set of Ohm speakers.
    Anyone ever have any?

    Are they a room-fill type experience vs. stereo imaging type?
    The big Ohm F is justifiably famous, and somewhat infamous, too. They're very insensitive and require gobs of power, but are also relatively fragile. The old joke was that they require 200 watts but will suffer profound damage if fed 205 watts. ;) They also use a huge aluminum "cone" (quite literally) as the radiating surface, with foam suspension parts that are, of course, long since failed -- they can be refoamed, but it's a labor of love (as I understand it).

    I have a pair of Ohm Walsh 2*, which don't use proper Walsh drivers but rather upside down smallish cone woofers augmented with tweeters. :) Ohm put them in "cans" that are meant to dissuade too much peeking behind the curtain by the end-user. ;)
    The Walsh 2 are small-ish and very light in weight. Though reputed to be very power hungry, I think they sound pretty good on even, e.g., push-pull EL84 amplification (i.e., about 14 wpc).
    You're welcome to them if you feel like coming up some time! They're quite decent sounding and deserve better than to be hunkered down in our basement. :#

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    source: https://ohmspeaker.com/site/assets/files/2436/ohm_walsh_loudspeaker.pdf

    The "Walsh" Ohms are (all) omnidirectional loudspeakers, but they built a plethora ;) of very conventional monkey coffin loudspeakers in their early decades, too.
    I had one pair of those (Ohm E, IIRC?* -- dump finds) and they were pedestrian but perfectly listenable. 8" woofer and the once nigh-on ubiquitous CTS phenolic ring cone tweeter.

    _______________
    * Full disclosure: I think they're Ohm Walsh 2s. They look like the Walsh 2, but several models produced by Ohm in the 1980s, give or take, look pretty similar to my non-expert eye, and the pair here have absolutely no identifying information on them that I've ever found.

    ** This is corroborated by the process of elimination from Ohm's "legacy products" listing online:
    https://ohmspeaker.com/legacy-products/e/
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    edited July 2023
    not to disparage the Ohm legacy, but monetarily speaking (without evaluating the books) Salk Sound would appear to be a bargain at 100K

    AFAIK, still available . . . no affil

    edit: apology to Dr. H . . . I didn't read the sales listing. Perhaps it's time for a consolidation of the speaker companies? Or . ..

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,146
    I had a pr. of Ohm Walsh 2's also.

    Quite a holographic soundfield. B)

    The DCM Time Windows are very similar to them. B)

    I really enjoyed my time with both speaker brands and still own some DCMs that I cherish. DCM Time frame 350s and DCM 17s I think they're called.

    I gave a good man my Ohm Walsh 2s as a gift back since he gave me a set of Polk audio SDA-SRS2s.

    I'll probably die with this second set of SDA-SRS2s that I have now with upgraded tweeters.

    I needed some cash a long time ago and sold that 1st pr. that good man gave me. They had upgraded tweeters also. :'(
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,995
    I'll take you up on that, Doc! not that I'd need an additional reason to come out to the countryside for a visit!

    Good info here, thanks! I know little to nothing about these speakers. I saw them on that show Bosch when I watched a few episodes a while back? Been curious since I first saw them. I don't think these ones are hooked up, unless the cables are coming up from the floor. Poseurs.
    https://ohmspeaker.com/news/ohm-goes-to-the-movies/
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    I always wanted to try a set of Ohm speakers.
    Anyone ever have any?

    Are they a room-fill type experience vs. stereo imaging type?
    The big Ohm F is justifiably famous, and somewhat infamous, too. They're very insensitive and require gobs of power, but are also relatively fragile. The old joke was that they require 200 watts but will suffer profound damage if fed 205 watts. ;) They also use a huge aluminum "cone" (quite literally) as the radiating surface, with foam suspension parts that are, of course, long since failed -- they can be refoamed, but it's a labor of love (as I understand it).

    I have a pair of Ohm Walsh 2*, which don't use proper Walsh drivers but rather upside down smallish cone woofers augmented with tweeters. :) Ohm put them in "cans" that are meant to dissuade too much peeking behind the curtain by the end-user. ;)
    The Walsh 2 are small-ish and very light in weight. Though reputed to be very power hungry, I think they sound pretty good on even, e.g., push-pull EL84 amplification (i.e., about 14 wpc).
    You're welcome to them if you feel like coming up some time! They're quite decent sounding and deserve better than to be hunkered down in our basement. :#

    [image]
    source: https://ohmspeaker.com/site/assets/files/2436/ohm_walsh_loudspeaker.pdf

    The "Walsh" Ohms are (all) omnidirectional loudspeakers, but they built a plethora ;) of very conventional monkey coffin loudspeakers in their early decades, too.
    I had one pair of those (Ohm E, IIRC?* -- dump finds) and they were pedestrian but perfectly listenable. 8" woofer and the once nigh-on ubiquitous CTS phenolic ring cone tweeter.

    _______________
    * Full disclosure: I think they're Ohm Walsh 2s. They look like the Walsh 2, but several models produced by Ohm in the 1980s, give or take, look pretty similar to my non-expert eye, and the pair here have absolutely no identifying information on them that I've ever found.

    ** This is corroborated by the process of elimination from Ohm's "legacy products" listing online:
    https://ohmspeaker.com/legacy-products/e/

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    ^^^ Are there speakers in that photo?
    Oh... wait... yes. Yes, there are. B)

    They look like Ohms sitting on little risers, don't they.
    Mac tuner/preamp and power amp -- and a Marantz 6300 rekkid playa.

    Is there anything else in that photo? I didn't notice. :p
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,714
    You didn't identify the Jazz album on the floor, the one next to . ...oh..my ....gawd
    😳
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,578
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    You didn't identify the Jazz album on the floor, the one next to . ...oh..my ....gawd
    😳

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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,130
    Sadly Mr. Strohbeen has passed away
    https://hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/another-creator-gone.10958/
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