OMA - Oswald Mill Audio EURO 450 000 for a turntable
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- OMA founder Jonathan Weiss is furious with Stereophile for calling his new K3 - a record player only for oligarchs, but with a price tag of $450,000 one must have ample finances. The arm, record player amplifier and the huge stand K3 are placed on top. In this video he presents both this and the speakers made for the Guggenheim Museum.
Stunning and very cool that there are still old-school quality people out there. I’d buy one if funds allowed, absolutely. Most everything today is made like crap and poor QC in comparison to the costs. Great to see. I was thinking about the SP10 and OMA plinth at some point.
This video is a pleasant surprise.
Firstly because despite having an introduction in Norwegian (I think) even though it is subtitled, which is a great consideration for those who watch, it continues all the way to the end in English.
Secondly because I, like many others, have a lot of interest and curiosity about Oswald Mills components. If we were to compare audio systems to cars, while other brands are fighting to sell electric vehicles with no life or soul, ΩΜΑ is producing new vintage gems like retro styled Bugattis, Maseratis and Aston Martins from the golden age of motoring! In other words, cars for adults with a refined taste.
Finally, because I really like seeing Jonathan Weiss talking about his own products because he has this self-satisfied way that may at first just sound like arrogance but to me it's due to a lack of patience after a huge effort in search of excellence in a world dominated by mediocrity.
And I give him complete reason!
Greetings from Brazil.
The Special K amp is a perfect match for snap, crackle, pop Rice Crispies vinyl.
Johnathan Wiess you are an artist of the highest level!!!! Your stuff is incredible looking and one needs only to connect two dots, if your that good at the visual designs it probably a million dollar Wining bet it sounds as good .
The stuff is beautiful but the owner rubs me the wrong way
precision up to 1 / millionth of a milisecond? Sure, and then he has backloaded horn bass section which introduces big big delay of low freq. Explain this. I can't.
It's a story to tell and a creation to make when you have a lot of money. Lots of expensive audio products do not make sense lol
I think it's easier for the human ear to hear timing differences in higher frequencies not low. I think the OMA system goes for a big earthy resonant bass with detailed mids and highs.
while i do APPRECIATE the quality. the engineering. and the time invested to make such state of the art Equipment .. i have no doubt about the sound quality, but i also love how Gorgeous they look.. it's like a beautiful sculptures from the Museum. except it's in your own living room.. unfortunately. they're not made for ordinary people like most of us.... i would LOVE to hear these museum speakers .
And still, it has a Rega tonearm lift.
Glimpses of the “Real Weiss” shining through… love it.😅😅😅
love this guy😄
OMA and Tomasz from Zeta Zero have totally opposite views on high end audio reproduction. Would be cool to do a 1 on 1 talk with them both !
I was feeling .Sir Weiss was irritated by the questions. Know him as a professional who takes deeply care what is is designing with his team,what quality he delivers. Never have seen him this irritated in any interview.
Great to see quality products being made today
Remind me to never interview that dude?! He almost seems irritated by the questions which were good?? I do like this stuff though minus the record player. Props to the interviewer for his patients! :-)
I’m certainly going to need that turntable to play MoFi DSD Master vinyl
Well, the speakers and the table are both ugly.
Craftsmanship at a high level great DIY. The audiophile equvalent of Odd Nerdrum!
screw this... $450000 will have most artists playing in my living room
Not if their dead it won't.
@@sasquatch1554 Exactly. You cannot get the Beatles to come play for you no matter how much you spend.
An inter-dimensional turntable...just imagine the possibilities!
Mr Weiss is the man!! Enjoying my devilles!
At least no one is going to be able to steal it because it’s too freakin heavy!
It would be great to see Jonathan Weiss and Michael Fremer together. 😃 The OMA look fantastic. Beautiful craftmanship.
Michael owns the K3 turntable and loves it.
$450.000 for a record player? Simple and plain crazy, and not in a good way. This is engineered to be expensive. And yes, this is only for oligarchs. People who are buying stuff like this, they are the ones not listening, they are flashing their money.
Yep most people who earn enough money to buy this "don't have time" to sit around and analyse whether the music sounds real or is reproduced perfectly.
@@RennieAsh 100% agree with you
Seriously, if I had the cash OMA equipment would be in my living room right now. I totally understand him. So many “audiophiles” listen to their equipment rather than the music. They spend a half million on all the stuff you see at these high fi shows and tell you how airy and open the speakers and turntable and amplifier are, when they have no clue what the musicians intent was. Weiss want you to hear that record reproduced how the artist and producers heard it in the studio. Or maybe Led Zeppelin where half their greatest stuff was recorded on old mansions with superb natural echo, or maybe Pet Sounds where Brian Wilson literally went crazy to get the sound on you don’t hear unless you have the right equipment.
That’s OMA. That’s real audio. And the asthetics follow the function, because the sound is first. The equipment looks like that because it has to for that sound.
System built to last 💪
The guy is very American.
Quite arrogant owner of OMA ! Seems like not so nice at all😏
I lovet OMA design and the reasons why its designed in a specific way, Jonathan seems like an wery nice gentleman in all other videos, but her he talks arrogant, he must have had a real bad day by som reasons here.
I agree. You can promote your product without making others feel stupid or putting others down. It actually weakens your argument.
@@enniol8043 Dear Ennio L,
Thank you for that.. 🥰. Yes, I’m all in with you there. How about just being humble ? Especially to a reporter from one of the the worlds richest country, with lots of potential customers within, that follows this reporter every day/week or month? I don’t get it..😳🤯!
Well… thank you for your answer anyway 👍🏽.
All the best / Johan
@@svantelejon710 it may be there all along, just stronger this time.
@@GensUnaSumus09 I agree! A Technics in a pile of cast iron… what’s the big deal? Would have been another thing if it was made from cast Plutonium, that glows in the dark😁😂🤣. Plus it’s more dence.. and absorb vibrations in a more modern fashion, hahaha☝🏽🤣
Lincoln Center used to have an exclusive contract with Altec back in the day. This new OMA rig is at least attractive looking compared to other stuff from this brand. I still get baffled by the reality theres a market for half million dollar audio systems.
Audiophiles to listen to music! He’s right because they will never be satisfied with what they have.
I'm smart and I really listen! I'm special like that, I need this turntable!
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Bruh... You thought?
J W I want to apologize to you Sir i do love what you do with real wood BUT i thought you came off as a audio snob Until you told stereophile to Fckoff 🧐 You Why they said that ? its because they wount be getting any Freebees i have been into HiFi over 50++ years Yes You are a head of the curve
Nothing lasts forever😁
Little by little we are getting closer to the end of high end. which is what we could hear more, it has taken the prices…. I wanted to say parameters at the levels of the absurd, it is art for art, nobody is able to listen to the frequencies that they supposedly offer. Only the bats in the nearby caves will be disturbed. The rest will be a lie that some specialists sell to nerds. But it does sound very professional and convincing. If you have not finished quantum physics you will appear there to clean the floors. The king is naked but no one protests.
But this has been the case for decades. Allowing for inflation there has always been an ultra high end ultra high priced. The Sondek was ultra expensive when first launched compared to other turntables, then came Krell, Wilson and such and if anything with the increase in ultra wealth then the market for this stuff is even more secure than the days when money was more democratically spread.
Just look at other luxury goods markets, hyper cars that cost multiples of millions have long waiting lists, try to buy an ultra complicated Patek, you will be in a feeding frenzy of people for whom spending half a million on a watch is barely a second thought.
The ultra high end has never had a stronger or larger base! Heck, we live in an age where twenty year olds turn billionaires in less than two years thanks to things like the internet and crypto!
@@ianmedium In all this dialectic there is an important gap, where the senses (hearing in this case) of a human being should be involved (par excellence), snobbery in its pure state, this is not a watch that is bought to show off in front of his "friends" not a scrap that rolls forwards or even backwards, is music, probably the oldest art of all, and the rest is just data that pretends to detract from the musician?
Do I want a speaker that looks like grandpas sallad bowl had a child with a BMW grill..? Hell no! I've got cheetah print dust covers, I'm good!
I get why he's pissed
Ridiculous
He's lying. Reichert never mentioned OMA, Weiss, or the K3 when he talked about "oligarch turntables"
Weiss referring to this sentence «some of those 1000lb oligarch ’tables Michael Fremer has been reviewing?». At that time Fremer had the OMA table and it is known to be one of the heaviest and most expensive turntables in the world. So no suprise he was thinking it was about K3.
@@Stereopluss Fremer also reviewed the even heavier TechDAS Air Force Zero and the SAT XD-1 around the same time. It seems very narcissistic for Weiss to assume the comment was directed towards him, or anyone in particular at all. Plus, Reichert’s comment really isn’t a derogatory statement anyway, just an observation.
All I can say is, this seems like strange behavior towards a publication that had his product on the cover of the magazine at the time of this video.
@@gotham61 Maybe there has been a Contact here that we don’t know about. High end hifi is a small community 😊
Herb Reichert is a hypocrite, he accuses Jonathan of selling to oligarchs and yet years earlier his business was selling Kondo Audio Note gear of similar prices!
Johnathan Wiess, you sound like Trump, and the amp looks like an espresso machine.. lol..
It WAS a black artist which he played first.
Hei. Kan noen hjelpe meg med hvor man kan få kjøpt GND. Lop issolation til coax digital lyd kabelen som går fra den digitale lyd utgangen på din pc.? Offte så bruker de en liten transformer.
Alt i en pc er gjordet til hus GND.
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Tenker du på en Direct DI Box med ground lift? Det er plenty av de på nettet.
Anthony Bourdain now an audio guy? Who would've thought?
Du vil aldri få vekk statisk støy og andre ting som skylles selve vinyl platen samme hvor dyr spiller du har!!
Seriously this guy is either really sure he's right or the most arrogant man in audio
find these speakers super ugly
🤣
I did not like this at all.
I do listen actually to my LPs.
You can say that an active speaker presumably with DSP. is cheting. much easier to get good sound this way!
Norway
Du kan jo si at en aktiv høyttaler antagelig med DSP. er joksing. mye lettere å få bra lyd på denne måten!