TransFi TURNTABLE PLATTER MAT...... THE 'RESO-MAT'

[MWalt]

A Reso-mat for Technics 1210/1200 is now available.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RESO-MAT-T...item27c2ddca05



I'd advise these for PL-71 as well, Stu, there is a bit of a lip on my PL-71 platter.

I have been waiting for this to come out. I am buying one today for my SL-1200 MKII. I will report my findings over the stock rubber mat.

[duo(2)]

Hi

I have just recived my Reso Mat,
and it works VERY well on my TT, it made big improvements ind the deep tones
Its a real improvement- not something where i have to sit an A/B test to make shure that i´m really hearing what i think i hear

so absolutely worth the money

[jandl100]

Excellent, Nikolaj! ... that's a really nice tt you're using it on!

I'm still using my Reso-Mat - I wouldn't be without it!

[duo(2)]

Hi

Thanks, yes its a nice TT - i love it

[Marco]

Just a little update to this thread...

I recently bought a Resomat from Vic's shop on ebay (prompted by the results I'd heard with using one on Darren's modded Techy), and after some extensive experimenting with various other mats, on the Mike New platter of my Technics SL-1210, which normally the platter 'rejects', preferring instead to be left 'au naturel', without the use of any additional interfaces between the record and the platter, I can now categorically state that the use of the Resomat has further (and very notably) increased fidelity from my vinyl replay system - and in turn my musical enjoyment.

Such is its fundamental effectiveness, I'd find it hard to imagine how any well-sorted turntable (where the 'sonic signature' of the platter mat wasn't simply being used as a tone control/'bandage', in an attempt to ameliorate sonic aberrations inherent in the partnering T/T and/or system) wouldn't benefit from the use of a Trans-Fi Resomat, as the improvements it imparts across the board, sonically and musically, in my opinion are a total no-brainer.

The first thing one hears when using the Resomat is a notable increase in overall clarity, as a result of a muddiness or veiling (only realised as having existed once eliminated) being removed from the musical presentation, allowing information previously masked by what one can only presume was noise or distortion, to 'jump out' of the mix, and in some cases, shock you. High-frequencies are rendered as sweeter sounding, but with no loss of extension or impact, voices and acoustic instruments sound more convincing and lifelike, and bass is tighter, more tuneful and subjectively has greater extension - all of which quite clearly renders the sound produced by any other mat I've used until now as being artificial and musically inept.

For me, the decoupling method employed by the Resomat is a great success. It has converted me, unequivocally, from previously believing that it made more sense to tightly couple records to platters with the use of a clamp or record weight, especially when it is considered that the mat or platter material is a good impedance match with vinyl itself. Having now heard what the Resomat does, I firmly believe that the decoupling approach makes most sense and offers the most satisfying musical results. As such, the record weights I was using previously have now become redundant, allowing the Resomat to grace my turntable platter unhindered by any unnecessary fripperies.

In my opinion, the Trans-Fi Resomat acts less as a barrier between music that's contained inside the record groves, and what the listener hears at the end of the reproduction chain, than any other turntable mat I've heard to date - and I've been through most of them. In fact it is *so* good that it should almost be considered as the universal mat of choice for all fans of vinyl replay, if the goal is to extract maximum resolution from the format. This applies even to users of Mike New platters on Technics T/Ts, where previously the introduction of other mats was a retrograde step, sonically [Martin T, please take note!]

As such the Resomat deserves my highest recommendation, and at a cost of a mere £35 has to be one of the bargains of the century and cheapest ways of improving the performance from any well-sorted quality turntable. Honestly folks, if you want to hear your treasured black stuff at its best, the Resomat should be considered as a near-mandatory purchase!

For more info: http://www.trans-fi.com/resomat.htm

Marco.

[John]

Welcome to the club
It is a bit of brain F--- when you first hear it.... As I was also brainwashed into thinking you had to have big heavy clamps but been happily using one since they came out

[DarrenHW]

Well I guess this has gone full circle now as I bought the mat on the strength of the posts on this thread and because it's a bargain and I'm a cheap pr*ck . I guess Jerry (jandl100) and I have similar tastes as I think I now have one of his old CDP's?

[shane]

Reminds me of a brief fashion in the late 70s for putting three up-turned drawing pins on the platter so as to support the record at three points around the edge of the label. Users reported similar results to your experience, but the fashion died out for some unaccountable reason.

(For the benefit of our trans-Atlantic cousins, drawing pins are also known as thumb-tacks, I believe).

[Marco]

Cheers, John!

Hi Darren, yup, the first time when you loaned me your Resomat, I didn't get a chance to listen to it properly. It was only when I was at your place and we were comparing the Resomat with and without the use of my SRM Tech Revolution clamp, that I 'got' exactly what it was doing, which it subsequently also repeated in my system

I'm pretty convinced that the Resomat would significantly improve the sound of virtually any turntable.

Marco.

[Audio Al]

I'm pretty convinced that the Resomat would significantly improve the sound of virtually any turntable.

I have one somewhere

Never tried it as it looks a cheap and nasty floppy plastic sheet

Will dig it out and have a go