If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear

If anything made for OMA by specialists in speaker design, amps, suts, turntables ... it was made because of Jonathan who is a founder of the OMA company. It’s his company and their products made in a way he want them to be made. This company has it’s own style, every company should have it, they are not copy other manufacturers, they do their own stuff. And they have professional designer with a certain vision of production line, this vision is way different from poorly designed modern high-end audio gear from many other manufacturers. They have beautiful showroom open for everyone.

It’s clearly not my niche of equipment, but as a business model I like the way they are doing their business, everyone can recognize OMA products and even haters discuss their products everywhere. The fact that they can sell for very high prices is a sign of success too. They have their own followers (audiophiles), none audiophiles are crazy about design of these retro looking horns and stuff. This is all good.

Long time ago they made amazing plinth for vintage Technics turntables (I wish to have one), their old and new plinths are better than the original plinths made by Technics. They did the same for Garrard and others.

Their OMA/SoundSmith cartridge looks better than original SoundSmith design.

What else? This new turntable reminds me cutting lathe a bit. Final product is much better than prototype.

Casting process from OMA instagram page uploaded by someone on another forum, more - images - here.

Personally I like my Luxman DDs better, but I respect what they are doing, I’m not gonna buy anything, so I don’t care about their prices.

A few years ago, they were selling the Saskia turntable, made of slate and idler-driven.  The Saskia was conceived of and built by Win Tinnon of North Carolina, based on his love for the Lenco; no part of it was made by OMA.  Win built every one of them from the ground up. Now they are selling this new direct drive.  It is the product of years of work by Richard Krebs, who lives in New Zealand, not Pennsylvania.  Richard is collaborating with OMA to market his product in the US, although in this case it seems OMA has a lot to do with the cast iron plinth.  OMA themselves admit that the tonearm is built by Frank Schroeder, who to my knowledge lives in Germany.  OMA was not the first to think of shedding the chassis of the SP10 Mk3 and mounting the motor/platter assembly directly into a high mass plinth.  For this, credit Steve Dobbins and/or some others who came before Steve.  OMA took the idea and executed it in a slate slab.  For that matter, OMA were not the first to use slate for a plinth, although they like to take credit for that idea too. The concept goes back to internet conversations that took place in the early 1990s.  I am not saying there is anything wrong with any of this; Richard Krebs, Win Tinnon, and Frank Schroeder cast their lots with OMA of their own free will.  OMA market high quality products, and buyers pay a premium for what they sell. I am only arguing about careless use of the word "genius". 

Who the *&$£ is Oswald Mills?
Do they know anything about engineering?
Or it just more bling?
Beware.  They make speakers, amps, the whole gamut.  Experts at everything.
I recommend full scientific tests (on the turntable, not on Oswald).
And great care when considering punting big money on bling.

There is far too much bling in today's turntables.  And far too little plain, honest, down to earth good engineering.  Not everything new is better.

Note.  Fremer likes it.

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"I am only arguing about careless use of the word "genius". "
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I can relate to that statement.
Marketing opportunist imo is more accurate.

I’d say that the Krebs TT represents a lot of “plain, honest, down to earth good engineering “ and very little bling. That’s why some others find it ugly. The problem is cost.