Are the new Ohm Walsh speakers Audiophile quality?

Congrats on your 2000s! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy my Ohms.  

One thing to remember about power is that the relationship between acoustic volume in a room and amp power is logarithmic. Every 3 dB increase in volume requires double the power. That means that one can generally get a fairly good volume level with reasonable amounts of power, but beyond that, power needs jump very rapidly. 

I always recommend that people get an inexpensive sound level meter so they can speak accurately about their listening level. Without that, one person's "medium" volume is headbanging loud for someone else.  

Unless you have a very large room, or listen past the mid 90 dB level (C weighted) I suspect you'll be fine.

I would say definitely NO. 
Dale Harder's HHR ... yes.

I have said it on other threads, but it bears repeating: The current Ohm lines are capable of very refined sound and will respond well to upstream improvements.  My 2000s, purchased new in 2009 have never sounded better.  I have upgraded most of my gear and wires, and the improvements have been apparent to varying degrees.  I feed them 500 watts/channel of Class D power from Arion Audio, and each is crossed over, first order, to a Vandersteen 2Wq sub with MHP-5 crossover.  I have heard many systems with all sorts of speakers, some priced at multiples of my Ohms.  I love listening to music as a destination activity, and only life's obligations and required sleep bring my sessions to a close.  Warmth with appropriate amounts of detail and transient information, a phenomenal soundstage and image resolution, make, for me, speakers that may well be my last. Of course, some speakers I have heard outclassed my Ohms, but nothing that I have heard under $12k has made me want to dump the Ohms.  Not bad for $2800 the pair! 

It bears repeating that ANY speaker will have its proponents and detractors, no matter how fancy, expensive or exotic. Pick a brand -- any brand -- Magico, Wilson, Moon, Wisdom and so on, and you'll find people who don't like their sound or even think they are an outright rip-off.  

The only thing that ever really matters is whether the person who bought whatever they bought enjoys them.  I happen to think my Ohms sound great and fully understand there will always be a few naysayers out there. That's their problem, not mine.

@mlsstl ... All good points, but I think many audiophiles don't give Ohm a fair chance for several reasons:
1. They are not expensive, so how could they be any good?
2. No fancy adverts in the audio rags, which leads to...
3. No glowing reviews in the big audio rags (there have been a few in the blogosphere, all pretty good).
4.  John Strohbeen of Ohm avoided audio shows for many years. Although he has demonstrated at shows in the last few years, the sound he got at the shows ranged from middling to good (all I could think about when visiting his demo rooms was how much better his speakers sound at my house).  IMO, that was due to John's desire to showcase "everyman" systems with low- or mid-fi electronics.  I would suggest John, at least once, go over the top on the electronics and wires at a show.  Then I would make up a new, fake model number, and add a zero to the price of one of his tower models.  Then, on the way out of the room, have someone hand visitors a card that says, "You actually just heard the Ohm Walsh x000, which sells for 1/10th the price that was displayed."
5.  I personally invited John to present at my local audio club, in an adjacent state to Ohm's NYC home, but was rebuffed.  He felt he wouldn't be able to get good sound in the short time he had to set things up.  I think he would have impressed a lot of members who would have heard his speakers.  Since John seems to rely almost entirely on word of mouth adverts (plus some web adverts), this would have been a smart move.
6.  For those who need approval from the S.O., the speakers may or may not get approval based only on their appearance.  They are great for cat owners and parents of toddlers, but nobody will mistake an Ohm tower speaker with a floorstander from Sonus faber.  But that's one reason why they are inexpensive.

There may be more to this list, but that's all I can think of right now.