It's now time to ditch your Sound Hi-Fi/Herbie's mats...

Hi Maco

Can you buy it direct from arthur ? looked around and best price is £75

Hi Chris,

I think so. Best thing to do is pop him an email at info@thefunkfirm.co.uk

:)

Marco.

Fascinating, Marco. I'm going to have to get my hands on one to try out as I've no idea whether my findings with the Mike New platter would be the same as yours. Now to plot how to borrow one...

I have had a lot of respect for the Herbies mat and bought a larger one direct from the USA since the MN platter has no lip. It certainly trounced the Techie and SDS Isoplatmats.

One thing I do know is that Herbies mats sell on at quite a good price on eBay so I could do the swap for about half price if the Achromat proves successful.

Hi Martin,

If you're not in too much of a hurry (since you're getting a pretty good sound as it is with the Herbie's), you could wait until I come down with my Achromat, and MN platter (which I should have fairly soon), and we can do some proper comparisons both with the platters and the mats, and then you can decide what way to go (and me too in terms of the platter) :cool:

As an aside, I'm going to try the Achromat with the Herbie's underneath and see what happens ;)

Marco.

Marco, what does the Achromat bring to the party that the Herbies does not?

Hi Andy,

If you read my opening post in this thread, all is revealed there :)

Marco.

Oh yeah, ta:).

In summary: I believe that the Achromat more faithfully reproduces what's on the record (giving a clearer, more realistic sound), as a result of it being the closest impedance match to vinyl itself (this is fundamentally important), than any other mat I know of on the market, and as such for me it is a no-brainer purchase - especially as there's now a special one that fits the Techie! :)

Marco.

Thanks, Marco. Hopefully I'll have my Paul Hynes PSU by then so we can take that out of the equation.

No worries, Martin. If not, I'll have mine. I should also have a copper mat by then, so we can revisit that one, too.

I want to be very thorough about this, as I suspect there a lot of people relying on our judgement! :cool:

Marco.