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

Harkening back to a golden glowing, transistorless, horn-filled past (50s?, 30s?) that probably didn’t sound as great as we might imagine.

I think you have no idea what you are talking about.

At the moment I have RCA 45 globe tubes from 1930s in my modern Yamamoto triode amp and it’s pure magic! Next to it I got modern JFET amp from Nelson Pass, so I can compare tubes vs. solid state.

I’m not a horn guy, but I can dig why people are still using an old Western Electric, Altec full range speakers (upgraded with modern parts) with vintage tube gear. Those are amazing! I love my Tannoy.

How can you compare Bose to OMA? The concept is completely different and they explained many times in the interviews like this. You’d better made an appointment if you are in NYC to visit OMA showroom and to listen what they got. They are also on various audioshows with smaller $10k speaker (Fleetwood Sound) and if you can’t visit you can find videos on youtube. OMA small speakers demo here.

I would like to hear their stuff.  If it sounds good, then the price is something each prospective customer has to decide whether or not to pay and it is not for others to decide whether it is ridiculous.  Small production products of proprietary design are necessarily costly. The designs are old school.  I’ve heard a number of modern builds using old designs and vintage parts and they can be terrific sounding.

A friend heard OMA speaker and did not like them.  But, I still would like to hear them myself.

It's all relative, crazy ugly to me. Even if I heard it and it sounded wonderful, I would have to do some deep soul searching to put that gear in my house.

The more I read the more I like. The prototypes platter looks nicer to me with the greenish lights rather than what appears to be  orange dots on the finished plinth.  The caged style Tone arm almost has to be built like that to favor the plinth! How else could it be built to match the plinth? What a work of engineering how the direct drive is built.  I'm on your side chalkster  

He has some really interesting stuff, and his decision that he would rather sell one thing at $100K rather than ten things at $10K seems to be pretty common these days.  I'm interested in the Fleetwood DeVille's, but I have to admit that his decision to take the price from $9,600 to $12,600 almost immediately after getting CBS Sunday Morning to come out and do a story on him gave me pause.  The product is about two or three years old and get's a 30% jump after some national publicity.   

Queue some dope to come in and cite the cost of lumber.  If you just look at his options and the price jumps (like $6K from the basic DeVille's to ones wrapped in less leather than would go on a very small ottoman) it's very clear that he's not interested in selling to audiophiles, but rather folks who want unique and will pay for it.   Good for him if he can make it work.