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My upgrade concentrates on making the motor and speed sensor do what the designer intended them to do. As designed and as built are two entirely different things. All the Kings horses cannot put back together what is broken in the drive. The technique is applicable to any DD. The TT-101 would be a good candidate
Re mats. In earlier TTs that I built, I experiemnted with rubber, lead, chamois and acrylic. I gravitated towards acrylic. Then more than 20 years ago I purchased my SP10 MK3.
Didn't like the original rubber mat and couldn't use the chamois because of the platter lip. I found that the acrylic worked quite well. I didn't think of trying copper or SS.
But I felt that the platter itself was compromising things so I made a new one in a tri-laminate of acrylic, duralium and lead epoxy'd together.
This I liked a lot and is what I still use today with a SME reflex clamp.
Pictures available on my Krebs upgrade web site. The black triangular unit.
All that said, I have heard exceptional performance from MK3's with original platter and both SS and soft mats. These were both take no prisoner systems in the USA that are simply spectacular.
So today I would think twice about discarding the original platter and spend more time on the record / platter interface.
There are so many options and ultimately it seems to come down to personal preference.
My upgrade concentrates on making the motor and speed sensor do what the designer intended them to do. As designed and as built are two entirely different things. All the Kings horses cannot put back together what is broken in the drive. The technique is applicable to any DD. The TT-101 would be a good candidate
Re mats. In earlier TTs that I built, I experiemnted with rubber, lead, chamois and acrylic. I gravitated towards acrylic. Then more than 20 years ago I purchased my SP10 MK3.
Didn't like the original rubber mat and couldn't use the chamois because of the platter lip. I found that the acrylic worked quite well. I didn't think of trying copper or SS.
But I felt that the platter itself was compromising things so I made a new one in a tri-laminate of acrylic, duralium and lead epoxy'd together.
This I liked a lot and is what I still use today with a SME reflex clamp.
Pictures available on my Krebs upgrade web site. The black triangular unit.
All that said, I have heard exceptional performance from MK3's with original platter and both SS and soft mats. These were both take no prisoner systems in the USA that are simply spectacular.
So today I would think twice about discarding the original platter and spend more time on the record / platter interface.
There are so many options and ultimately it seems to come down to personal preference.