My Technics SL1200 MKII journey

[RobbieGong]

I’ve recently got one of the oyaide rubber mats and it’s the best I’ve tried so far.

Fling a link Richard

[martian sunrise]

http://www.analogueseduction.net/tur...table-mat.html

I paid about half that from a Japanese seller

[chris@panteg]

I think I must get that Oyaide B12 mat. 5 mm so perfect thickness.

[Dubster68]

I’ve recently got one of the oyaide rubber mats and it’s the best I’ve tried so far.

Richie looked at these for a bit now. Would you say they make a good difference as like all other Oyaide stuff but doesn't come cheap.

[martian sunrise]

Do you want to try it?

I only tried it against the acrylic mat and and the acrylic mat with a 1mm neoprene may underneath. It was a definite improvement. I had tried cork, resomat, acromat etc previously. Some weren’t flat and some weren’t an improvement

[KWJ]

As far as mats go I have tried about 5 different types the two that really made the most improvement were the Oyaide metal mat and the Kab polyglass mat under the stock thin mat and out of these two I like the Kab setup best at this time but as always with a different cartridge may have to select a different mat to obtain the best sound.

[Dubster68]

Running with a High Fidelity Crystal glass turntable matt on a standard platter at the moment and that has sounded the most musical so stuck with it. The best for sound was the MN Bearing and MN ETP platter but for what ever reason I sold them to buy a second turntable and my Techie has regretted it since that moment of madness. I probably won't ever see these for sale again but they do create a totally different turntable.

[Wakefield Turntables]

I never fell in with the MN ETP platter, and whilst it was very very slightly ahead of his older designs (to which I still have sitting on my 1210) I could never justify the ?£700 expense. The best mat I have ever heard is the SSS SPH platter mat (of which I reviewed), it ousted my Crystal mat which now sits on my Lenco 75!

[RobbieGong]

Running with a High Fidelity Crystal glass turntable matt on a standard platter at the moment and that has sounded the most musical so stuck with it. The best for sound was the MN Bearing and MN ETP platter but for what ever reason I sold them to buy a second turntable and my Techie has regretted it since that moment of madness. I probably won't ever see these for sale again but they do create a totally different turntable.

Can only agree totally Mick, The ETP took my techie to a level of rightness.

Instead of adding, it simply took away, allowing the techie to grow up into what I hoped it could be, a proper audiophile turntable.

It didnt add a flavour of any kind (always a massive plus and want in my book, in this game), what it did do was bring out a level of rightness to the techies presentation I was hoping for.

This is most likely due to the non-resonant nature of the Engineered Teflon Plastic structure used - it's a winner in the true sense of hi-fidelity for me.

I detect no flavour with the ETP. Music is presented through cart, speakers, system duty, which equates to music being pulled from the grooves and presented with a sense of accuracy.

The ETP plays a big part in that, no doubt in my experience.

[steve-z]

With the standard of turntable you have it definitely deserves a better cartridge, I’ve got an AT95EX on my ATLP5 turntable and at its price (£42) I think it’s excellent, if you can afford to go up a little in price the new Goldring E3 (£80) is getting lots of rave reviews, that’s the way I’ll be going when I eventually change mine.
Btw if you like a relaxed but detailed sound try a cork mat, I use one on my No 1 deck, a Rega P3 and prefer it to the standard wool mat.

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