OMA K3 $360K TURNTABLE

[Pearljam5000]

(price is with tonearm and other stuff )
what do you guys think ?

"K3 has been a seven year project to create and redefine state of the art for vinyl playback. We wanted to set a new mark for the turntable, forming an international collaboration with the world's top experts in direct drive turntable design, motor control, and tonearm technology."

 

[pkane]

what do you guys think ?
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I fondly remember an early version of this, while growing up:

 

[BDWoody]

(price is with tonearm and other stuff )

Whew!

 

[JayGilb]

A $100 CD player will run circles around it in audible/measurable performance and one would have $359,900 dollars left to use for anything else besides pouring your money down the drain.

 

[Open Mind Audio]

So nice to see the tone arm included. I hate that thing when you drop $360K on a turn table only to get nickle-and-dimed another 30-50K for the tonearm. They really listened to their customers on this one.

 

[Frank2]

My thoughts about it were already posted in another thread: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...2023-recommended-gear-list.47699/post-1710614

 

[bluefuzz]

what do you guys think ?

I could get roughly 3000 years of Spotify for that money. Which would also sound better ...

 

[JeffS7444]

It makes me think of the Guggenheim Museum under construction.

I guess the only way to know the upper $ limit of the vinyl playback market, is to keep raising the prices until sales dwindle to irrelevance. Until then, it represents American jobs, and a boost to GDP.

 

[MAB]

what do you guys think ?

Obscene.
I think this is designed by people, and for people, who never actually operated a turntable.

First, dust and dirt are an enemy of records and styli. This ignores that.
Second, have you ever seen an audiophile operate the tonearm on one of these plinth-free towering infernos (without even a finger lift on the tonearm, can they make it any harder???)
Third, it looks horrible. Comparing it to an erector set is insulting to kids. My old Luxman PD-444 looks way better.

Also, it is outperformed by a vintage Technics.

 

[Anton D]

I think I will never likely know how this sounds. Luckily for people here, they seem to have already outperformed it in their own systems!

Bottom line: It cries out to be decorated with N Scale figures.

 

[Vini darko]

Meh underpriced garbage , talk to me when it has a netronium base.

 

[Pearljam5000]

 

[Todd k]

(price is with tonearm and other stuff )
what do you guys think ?

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Looks like the Guggenheim Museum and cost about as much as some of the paintings.

 

[Joe Smith]

One of the ugliest contraptions I've ever seen. I don't care how it sounds, I would have no place for that in my house at any price.

 

[mhardy6647]

A $100 CD player will run circles around it in audible/measurable performance and one would have $359,900 dollars left to use for anything else besides pouring your money down the drain.

[emphasis added]
Not if the CD player would be used to play a record, though. Pretty sure the OMA would do a measurably better job of that. Audibly better, too.
I am just saying.

 

[drewdawg999]

I think it's butt ugly and the epitome of excess. It's very heavy so you need the special matching table from OMA, also expensive and ugly. Fremer has a prototype and slapped a $50,000 tonearm on it, pitted it against a Techdas here:

I don't think either needle drop sounds all that great, couldn't tell all that much difference between them on my Truthear Zero Reds. There is a slight difference though and I guess I would choose the K3 if I had to.

 

[Anton D]

Also, be sure to check out the motor they use.

(I don't wanna spoil the potential surprise.)

 

[Chrispy]

Fugly and overpriced?

 

[Pearljam5000]

Also, be sure to check out the motor they use.

(I don't wanna spoil the potential surprise.)

They say it's the most powerful motor in any turntable

 

[fpitas]

A $100 CD player will run circles around it in audible/measurable performance and one would have $359,900 dollars left to use for anything else besides pouring your money down the drain.

But that CD player would not be strikingly ugly. For that, you must pay.