Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ?

Dear @mattdrummer  :  " is my interest in time accuracy. Thus, direct drive. Time domain is just better with direct drive. And it’s that lifelike transient response that I am after.  "

The main any good design characteristic is speed stability, with out that characteristic your statement never appears. Transient response is where MUSIC natural color BORN in a live event or home reproduction.

Esoteric is not really good about and at its asking price I think is a poor performer:

0.01% and w/f a really poor 0.06 % when the SP10MK3 shows: 0.001 % ( speed ) and a w/ 0.01% and those specs are critical for what you are looking for can appears.

The OMA through reviews and by its site speak of several importan TT characteristic but you can't find out any of those specs , even less information from the other DD by SAT.

TheTT you are looking for needs to have no sound by it self, it should be jus: blackness and if you read reviews of MF the TTs develops all kind of souen levels because in reality he is reviewing the tonearm/cartridge combinations.

Now, all audiophiles including reviewers own different roo/systems and more important is that even that all of us like the MUSIC reproduction this does not says each one of us MUSIC taste is exactly the same because each one of us has different MUSIC reproduction priorities.

So you need to trust in you and your fist hand experiences. Now if OMA shows you with its TT measurements that at least even the Technics MK3 specs in the K5 then you can decide for it.

I doubt OMA can shows you any  critical audio item specs. They like to talk and we can read in its site ( example ) tha its phono stage is way accurated on its RIAA and guess what: no single spec about anywhere the audio world.

Now, you can look to these SP10 MK3 of this Agoner gentleman:

Living Room | Virtual Listening Room (audiogon.com)

and you can choose the tonearm or tonearm of your preferences and a plattform as the Minus-K or the top of that line and you will have that precise transient response.

Several audiophiles do not like or do not care about specs and I could understand their way of audio life because they choose what they like.

You have the xperience need it to choose a new TT. Trusting in manufacturers could be or not a good strategy because at the end the manufacturer wants that you buy its products.

You like OMA and OMA convince you about its products but what that gentleman Jonathan told you:

" would explain to me the benefits of high efficiency speakers and low wattage tube amplification and I was quite skeptica..... "

 

it's not exactly true. His main issue is that he manufacture speakers, electronics, TTs an the like and he at the end is a seller.

 

 

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.

 

 

Plus the original SOTA Mat and Basis Audio TT clamp and you are done with the Technics.

 

R.

I think Richard Krebs used the SP10 mk3 as his benchmark when designing and developing the K3. So it’s quite likely to exceed SP10 Mk3 and SP10R specs in its performance. Still, it is surprising that OMA don’t publish specs.

If anyone reading this thread has been intrigued by contactless drive for a TT's Platter, the link is showing a TT designed and produced by another advocate of the SP10 Mk III. This is a product that has a longer life as a product, resulting in info about its performance being easier to discover.

It is a TT that has been discussed on The Gon. 

The present used price, shows it is a TT, that is not commanding too much of a price to experience technology that uses contactless drive.

 

  

@pindac , now that’s a beautiful turntable!