Cheers, guys. Hopefully some of you will have found my ramblings useful

Hi Colin,

One small point of detail. Did the bruil weight work at all with the oyaide platter at all. Im not looking for the cheap route but personally i would want to buy the mat and then at a later date buy the stabilizer.
Sonically, it worked very well (although not as well as when the STB-MS was used), but in terms of flattening out warps, no, as unfortunately the Bruil isn't quite heavy enough.

However, any suitably heavy record weight (which means that it is as least as heavy as the STB-MS) would work, as I don't think the Oyaide stabiliser is doing anything particularly special in that respect

Marco.