Mike New platter, Oyaide MJ-12 mat & STB-MS stabiliser arrive at Marco Towers...

[Marco]

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.

[colinB]

Thanks Marco. How much does it weigh out of interest?

[Spectral Morn]

Must admit the Technics looks damn cool with the Oyaide mat on doesn't it!

Indeed







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Regards D S D L

[Spectral Morn]

Nice review Marco, very nice


Regards D S D L

[Marco]

Cheers, mate - and may I say very nice pics (above) from you!

Is that Hamish's old Techie?

Marco.

[Marco]

Hi Colin

Thanks Marco. How much does it weigh out of interest?

Ah.... Unfortunately, I've returned the mat and stabiliser now to David. However, I'm sure Neil will weigh it for you

Marco.

[MCRU]

Neil,
The pic Marco lets me use of his Techie is crap compared to yours.lol....

Did you get yours from Whittlebury show as I was there and Oyaide first showed them and sold them all I was told!

The only other Oyaide source in the UK is also a Dave!

[Spectral Morn]

Cheers, mate - and may I say very nice pics (above) from you!

Is that Hamish's old Techie?

Marco.

Beautiful isn't it ?

Just thought it would be nice to give a wee hint as to what I have been up to recently as we started our evaluation process around about the same time. I haven't reached any firm conclusions yet though my project is a bit more wide ranging than yours has been as it will include arm options and PSU options as well.



Regards D S D L

[Darren]

Darren,
I am afraid there is not much room for any funny business!! under the platter.
I have modelled the complete assembly on CAD and I can tell you there is very little room.
The design of the platter DD assembly is such that the platter sort of wraps itself around the motor assembly and the PCB. Hence the inverted dish shape of the platter which of course is a large part of the problem.

There is also a thick layer of rubber bonded to the underside of the platter which would not be practical to remove. There are other platters such as the SL1500 which do not have any rubber bonding, and which could be contenders for your suggestion. However they will not work on the SL1200 as the magnet rotor assembly differs substantially.

So we must resign ourselves to either putting something on top to improve the dynamics/sonics or look at an alternative platter design. Which in itself was not an easy task as the low profile of the motor assembly limits the options.

Hi Mike,
Please don't think I was trying to suggest you could be undercut easily or that your products are poor value -I'm just not wealthy like Marco and was wondering if a half way house as it were could be achieved....
Just thinking aloud really.
Naturally I wish you every success.

[Tarzan]

Yep well done Marco- now you can go and listen to more music and that blue Techie looks uber cool- any second opinion on the Oyaide mat Dalek? Good job to all, this is getting exicting