Hi Peter
Oxford Acoustics was started by Jon Harker (owner/operator of Oxford Audio Consultants since 1990) and Fraser Shaw (a surgeon by profession) in 1986.
I purchased an Oxford Acoustics Crystal Reference tt with SMEV from Subjective Audio (Howard Popeck) in 1987 following a demo conducted at my home with Howard, Jon, Fraser and a very nice curry.
I owned that turntable until I sold it last year to Bob (It Costs How Much? - on HifiWigwam).
If you pm me your home email address I can send you a very comprehensive setup document that I compiled for Bob which also contains many tips I picked up over my 21 years of ownership.
I only sold the Oxford because it took up such a large footprint and I wanted a smallish tt I could site on the top shelf of my equipment rack.
The early sorbothane 'walnut whips' were soon superceded by a better design which did not sag over time (sounds like you have the early design).
I did have a plan to replace these with 3 X Stillpoints and I would be happy to discuss with you further how you might go about incorporating these into the Oxford design.
Oxford Acoustics were very much ahead of the game back in 1987 when the popular view was that only a suspended sub-chassis turntable would cut the sonic mustard. Jon and Fraser had some ambitious plans which included incorporating a mc phono stage in the top of the plinth. DIN sockets on the outside rear were installed for this purpose and to link to the power supply for the turntable.
Ultimately, Oxford Acoustics ceased to be when Fraser returned to medicine and Jon became a hi fi dealer.
In the meantime, a nostalgic pic to ponder
Steve.
My System:- dCS Vivaldi Transport + dCS Vivaldi Apex DAC + dCS Vivaldi Master Word Clock + dCS Vivaldi Upsampler Plus, Aurender N20 Music Server/Streamer, TW Raven One tt/Graham Phantom II/Transfiguration Orpheus L & Audio Technica ART20 mc's, Whest Titan Pro, D'Agostino Momentum HD pre/S250 MxV power amp, TAD CR-1 MKII loudspeakers, REL Gibraltar G2 subs, Coherent Systems BD Mains, interconnects & speaker cables, Sablon Audo EVO USB cable, Tellurium Q Ultra Silver power cords, Ziro Disclosure & Vertex Roraima Hi-Rez power cords + Furutech FI connectors, Stillpoints ESS racks/component stands, Vertex Aletheia PSU2 balanced power supply, Coherent Systems RTZ3 ground box + CR/BD cables, Acoustica Applicata DaaD room treatment, Mutec Ref10 SE-120.