Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths

Jonathan, Steve should be at RMAF but I'm going to be taking photo's as usual.

I heard the OMA rim drive at CES and was mightily impressed, probably the best source at the show. If your SP10 plinth is indeed 200 pounds of slate it cannot help but sound wonderful. I'm all about the belief that mass is required to tame the powerful MK3 and Slate is another way to get there.

In some ways we're doing the same thing. Slate naturally has constrained layers, formed by nature. I'm getting mine by using layers formed under pressure (German Panzerholz).

Hi Albert,

I wish we could take credit for the rim drive you heard at CES, but we were not there, and have not made a rim drive deck to date. I wonder what you heard? All of our turntables and plinths are made of slate, but perhaps it was a Denham TTweights deck? I think he makes a rim drive?

You and I do concur that mass is everything in dealing with this type of deck. It's true I have not gone through the journey of self discovery that Raul has, training myself ruthlessly to hear in seconds what takes others years to discern, but the idea of a low mass plinth for the SP10 turntable has to be a colossal piece of silliness.

In any event, look forward to seeing you at RMAF again. And one of my favorite wooden Uwe bodies for the Denon 103 is the panzerholz. It's an interesting material.

Jonathan Weiss
OMA

Jonathan, I thought you were partners with Win Tinnon. I stood in the hallway with Win and spoke at length about how good the table sounded.

Maybe it was another show other than CES? I've covered almost every audio show and they sometime run together in my mind.

Dear Albert, Thanks for the further clarification on which turntable gets the Micro mat. I fully agree that the Micro and the Mk3 would go well together. My reservations only relate to using the Micro with the much lighter and much less torque-y Mk2. There are guys who do it, however.

Regarding mats, I have used the Audiolife mat (platter?) on my SP-10 Mk2 with no ill effect for a couple of years and this mat weighs 4.5Kg. The Cu-180 also sounds quite fine on this deck. Interestingly, when I had the Cu-180 on my Micro-Seiki SX-8000 it was significantly less dynamic than my Plattentellerauflage mat from Germany - worth looking into for very reasonable $$.