If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear
Meanwhile those huge and beautiful $280k OMA Imperia horn speakers just received The Golden Ear Award from The Absolute Sound Magazine (2021). What are you gonna say now? P.S. OMA K3 turntable is on the cover of Stereophile (issue 478) , I hope you can buy and read. Regarding its unusual design I do not see any single negative comment on their instagram, so I think their marketing strategy is just right, people love it, except for some old audiogonners as usual. Interesting part in their press release about OMA new DD motor: "We hope to offer a stand alone version of our motor in the future to replace Neumann cutting lathe motors (Lyrec, Panasonic SP-02) for record cutting engineers. This motor, comprising a huge 25mm main bearing spindle riding in a pressurized oil column with an inverted bearing is accurate to molecular tolerances. The design of K3’s mechanicals is the work of a team led by Richard Krebs in New Zealand, the worlds foremost authority on direct drive turntable technology... Bucknell University’s Engineering and Physics departments did extensive FEA and other analysis of the platter and chassis design (and gave OMA their award for most innovative product of 2019.). " read more. |
Chakster, Either you do not understand English as well as you write in English (which is very well) or you just don't want to "hear" anyone else's opinion. I said first of all that I know nothing about OMA loudspeakers. However, in this case, it is well and good that an OMA speaker received an award from AS; that information does not say anything about who conceived, designed, and built them. And I did also say that OMA sell high quality products. OMA is a successful business for that reason, and I wish them continued success in this difficult market for high end audio. In the case of the above quote about a putative cutting lathe motor, note use of the words "our motor". Richard Krebs' group developed that motor. It's a small thing, and I guess I am making too big a deal of it, but there is a history..... I was not aware that the Bucknell University physics and chemistry departments gave out annual awards to audio companies. That is surprising and remarkable. |
Lewm, I prefer to post links, people can read, Mr. Richard Krebs has been mentioned in OMA press release for K3 turntable on OMA website (see my previous posts): “The design of K3’s mechanicals is the work of a team led by Richard Krebs in New Zealand, the worlds foremost authority on direct drive turntable technology... ” I’m sure Mr. Krebs could chime in and tell us more about this project. It would be nice. He’s an a’gon member for a long time. If Jonathan can invite many professionals in different fields (speakers, amps, turntables, tonearms… ) to create something new and/or unique then he’s a good businessman, but he’s an audiophile and collector of vintage analog gear. All those people like Mr.Krebs , Herr Schröder and others must be happy and proud of the final product under OMA brand. This is amazing and I’m glad it’s not a one man show, but a collective of experts, I’m sure it’s a lot of work and experts are not cheap (their time cost money). |
