Oyaide MJ-12 or BR-12

[allthingsanalogue]

I'm using a SL1210,
Mike new bearing
Oyaide MJ-12 mat
BR-One underneath
Oyaide Stablizer
RB700 Rega
AT-440MLA cart.

It sounds great but was wondering in the curvature of the Oyaide Mat is affecting azimuth? When I play mono LP's they sound perfectly centred even with headphones and everything sounds right. Am I worrying over nothing, the Rega arm has no adjustment for azimuth and I'd rather not use shims on the headshell.

Any thoughts.

[Tarzan]

Have you put a mini spirit level on your headshell to check for azimuth?

Is the sound pulling to one channel?

I use the Oyaide mats and have not noticed any problems.

If you are happy with the sound l would leave well alone.

Oh and the mat and weight look well cool.:)

[allthingsanalogue]

My headshell is level and the sound is great indeed.

I tried playing a mono and stereo LP with headphones with and without the MJ-12 and apart from sounding significantly better with eh MJ-12 and BR-ONE underneath I can't hear any difference in channel separation whatsoever. I like the way that the arm hardly moves up or down when using the above when playing.

I was originally using the MJ-12 directly on the platter and using a Linn felt mat as a dust cover for the MJ-12.

Then one day before going to bed I took the MJ-12 off for some reason (as you do) and put them back on in the wrong order without realising it, went to bed, woke up the next day and spent 13 hours with my brother playing LPs and then I realised I couldn't find the felt mat anywhere but was wondering how come it sounded better that day, then it dawned on me the felt mat was under the MJ-12! So then I ordered a BR-ONE to go underneath.

I think the slight 1 degree curve outweighs any very slight azimuth issues especially when I notice that without the mat or weight nearly every record I take out of the sleeve, especially the new 180g pressing are warped all over the place anyway and this definitely affect azimuth.

Maybe one day I could buy a ETP platter from Mike but the only thing holding me back is that I like the strobe on the original platter!

And yes, they do look great spinning, especially when I play clear green vinyl as you can see the tuning holes in the MJ-12 underneath!

That DCC copy of Elvis is Back at the end of the first video in the bottom right is stonkingily good!


http://youtu.be/WmLk9QkiLIc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHi7lFjCD8&feature=youtu.be

PRESS PLAY ON BOTH VIDEOS AT THE SAME TIME, IT LOOKS WELL COOL!

[Tarzan]

Nice looking Techie there mate.:)

[allthingsanalogue]

Cheers:)

[Marco]

Hi Andrew,

Looks good! Could we have a video of your T/T playing some vinyl? Would be good to have a listen :)

Marco.

[allthingsanalogue]

Will do!

[Marco]

Nice one :)

Marco.

[allthingsanalogue]

I put the camera in between the speakers, it's only a mono camera so audio is not great. Any distortion is the camera mic

I used Jim Reeves as it probably won't get removed by the Youtube police!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ujbROxNSsY&feature=youtu.be

Quick demo of deck running

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NffjvfikJ6U