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

I thought so too at first. The reality is that Jonathan Weiss is a nasty, vile, human being. He ends up burning his relationships. Ask around and you’ll see…

Character of the founder is important when you are buying at this level. It’s a hobby and a pastime that is meant to bring the owner pleasure. Dealing with nasty people negates the benefits.

He also doesn’t know that much about audio. If you question his statements, you’ll find out that he builds on kernels of truth that he then distorts erroneously. I can cite many examples, one of which is how he used a cutting lathe as a model for the K3. Cutting lathes do NOT make good models for turntables. They serve opposite roles. His use of cast iron and belief that it’s a unique high-end material is laughable… he thinks that the more powerful the motor, the greater the sonic benefits… that’s just wrong. 

I would not have OMA in my system even if it were free.

Richard Krebs designed and probably built at least the first prototypes of K3. Richard is an honorable gentleman and a qualified engineer. The K3 evidently went where Richard’s brain took it. None of us know what we don’t know about it, so perhaps silence is golden when it comes to a critique. Even Mike has only third person knowledge. I am no big fan of the OMA proprietor either, but that’s no reason to denigrate the K3.

Richard Krebs designed and probably built at least the first prototypes of K3. Richard is an honorable gentleman and a qualified engineer. 

Richard is not a qualified engineer. I have known him for 30 plus years - he has an electrical certificate from Air New Zealand when he was an apprentice in their service department, but he has no tertiary education in engineering.

Perhaps, but why over years have you been so persistently antagonistic toward Richard? In any case, it’s my fault, not Richard’s that I erroneously credited him with a degree. 

Perhaps, but why over years have you been so persistently antagonistic toward Richard? 

Thats not true.

In actual fact if you read the thread on the Eminent Technology air bearing arm I simply disputed his suggestion of adding 30 grams of mass to the arm and removing the patented decoupled counterweight and replacing it with a rigid bolt.

He argued for almost 12 months on why adding 30g of mass was a good thing ( along with much junk logic ), and then some time later claimed he hadn't in fact added 30 grams of mass.

Ditto on the thread on direct drive vs idler vs belt he claimed the Goldmund DD motor had a sampling rate of 34000 which he conceded later was not correct.

You falsely assume because someone disagrees there must be antagonism, which is simply not correct.