Holy smokes, there must be something wrong with my Badger 150. This Omni 4000 paints sooooo much better. I don't get any spitting or grainy spray. The paint just seems so much smoother. And it seems like I can control the paint flow soo much easier. Perhaps that is the gravity feed doing it. I don't know. All I know is I LIKE IT! Much easier to switch between colors also, IMO.
Oh, BTW, the Badger 150 was given to my by my mother. She had it a while, but I'm sure she took good care of it. And I have always cleaned the heck out of it also. Although it has always painted relatively ok, the Omni just seems so much better and so much easier.