OMA K3 $360K TURNTABLE

[kemmler3D]

Looks like a vocational school's CNC class project.

This is a very solid burn, haha

 

[Pearljam5000]

There's a new $370K Wilson Benesch turntable

 

[Robin L]

There's a new $370K Wilson Benesch turntable

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Whatdayouknow, sounds like my ALAC file from the "Steely Dan, the Definitive Collection" CD - only a trifle blurrier. Of course, the You Tube presentation is some sort of data deprived MP3. Not what I would call a convincing demonstration of the glories of analog replay.

 

[Anton D]

Does anybody remember the Teres line of turntables?

This is similar , weighted platter acrylic....

They can be had for ~2-3 grand these days.

They were lovely, and anticipated the current market, especially the platter/plinth shared curve, etc.

And, of course, Michell was there 40 years ago.

I'd love to see a client list, just for curiosity sake.

 

[Sal1950]

Whatdayouknow, sounds like my ALAC file from the "Steely Dan, the Definitive Collection" CD - only a trifle blurrier. Of course, the You Tube presentation is some sort of data deprived MP3.

Oh my, Mikey's breaking the hearts of the folks that have the MB2 pressing of the original LP. LOL

BLAH
Mastered in Stereo and 5.1 by Bernie Grundman from 1980 Bob Ludwig EQ'd master.

 

[Robin L]

Oh my, Mikey's breaking the hearts of the folks that have the MB2 pressing of the original LP. LOL

BLAH
Mastered in Stereo and 5.1 by Bernie Grundman from 1980 Bob Ludwig EQ'd master.

Still have my copy of the same. I've got a SACD player, but don't have 5.1 capability anymore, no room where the stereo's set up.

 

[Anton D]

Still have my copy of the same. I've got a SACD player, but don't have 5.1 capability anymore, no room where the stereo's set up.

5.1 was an affectation, anyway. No loss there, sir.

 

[Pearljam5000]

Still have my copy of the same. I've got a SACD player, but don't have 5.1 capability anymore, no room where the stereo's set up.

Stereo is the best anyways

 

[Robin L]

5.1 was an affectation, anyway. No loss there, sir.

There were a few 5.1 recordings that were different and interesting. Bob Dylan's self-produced "Love and Theft" comes to mind. However, a lot of pop recordings would stick instrumentalists behind you in a way that could make you paranoid. And those classical releases I had didn't really convince me with the orchestra up front, hall reverb in the back perspective. The famous Carlos Kleiber/VPO recording of Beethoven's 5th in surround sounded better than the two-channel mixdown, but I suspect that had more to do with a different EQ than the virtues of surround. A lot of older analog classical recordings sound better in remixed versions anyway, like Bernstein's NYPO Mahler cycle and Karajan's 1970's Beethoven cycle.

 

[Sal1950]

Stereo is the best anyways

Only for those too cheap to expand into Quad, 5.1, or better yet Atmos
Anything Stereo can do, multich can do X-channels better.

 

[Brian Hall]

Was that image generated by Chat GPT-4 or similar?

Bing's AI. Which I believe is Chat GPT 4.

 

[antcollinet]

Bing's AI. Which I believe is Chat GPT 4.

The image creator is (I believe) Dall-E 3.

 

[Basic Channel]

Only for those too cheap to expand into Quad, 5.1, or better yet Atmos
Anything Stereo can do, multich can do X-channels better.

Not necessarily. Us two channel plebs have more money left over to buy more expensive tonearms for our more expensive turntables.

 

[Sal1950]

Not necessarily. Us two channel plebs have more money left over to buy more expensive tonearms for our more expensive turntables.

 

[MattHooper]

On casual listen, this sounds quite nice IMO:

 

[Anton D]

On casual listen, this sounds quite nice IMO:

Just from the pic that appears from the image in the post, are there any albums you can identify from the spines we can see?

Just that pic, no need to hit play.

I can get only one.

Wow, the playback, those snaps crackles and pops must be driving the haters to apoplexy!

 

[Robin L]

On casual listen, this sounds quite nice IMO:

Didn't "distort and sound all horrible" but it was also the sort of track one would strategically place as a final track on an LP as it has no dynamics and low volume. The vocal is practically whispered. I can see a touch of disc eccentricity, but as this is close to sprechstimme, pitch don't matter all that much anyway.

On the other hand, there's no place to stick this musical sequence except at the end of an LP side:

There's a grotty sounding mid-seventies LP of this from Columbia:

Think Mikey will demo this on his magical music machine?

 

[MattHooper]

Yours for only $600,000 USD.

(Or you could just p*ssy out and just get a $100 DAC. But don't count on any street cred, then).

Lot of crazy features, including ion releasing feature for anti-static, self levelling, etc.

 

[MattHooper]

Check out this tone arm!

 

[Anton D]

Wow.

Pretty soon, we'll need one of those prize claws to load records...in an airtight chamber, of course.

Finally, a Homermobile turntable.