Linn LP12 Black Felt Mat How do you keep it on ?

Hi, yes I too replaced it, after years of believing that nothing should be used instead of it, with the Extreme Phono Donut Mat. Never sticks to the record and TT sounds better! My Linn dealer thinks I have violated all Linn principles and may not service my TT anymore. If you stick (no pun intended) with the felt mat, then you have to raise the record you're taking off the platter a little bit, carefully peel off the felt mat with your other hand, and press it down on the platter while you tear the record the rest of the way off the felt mat. DO NOT allow the mat to fly off towards the stylus--for obvious reasons. Go to Extremephono.com and read about their replacements for the felt mat.

I've owned a Linn LP-12 for more years than I can remember, but the one thing I can remeber is that the felt mat comes off with each and every album. I've always believed(and maybe mistakenly so) that if another mat worked better, they would have been using it after all these years. It's kind of a quirky thing, but you don't fool too much with a classic--it's the way it is!! It seems as though a $5K front end ought to have more than a .25 mat, but who am I to judge.

I will add another reco for the Extreme phono donut mat on the LP/12. More detail w/o losing postive qualities. My Linn dealer likes it better than the felt mat. SC53 are you serious about your Linn dealer not servicing the table.. come on really?

One downside of the Extreme phono mat is that you really need to turn the table off between records since it has a sticky quality.

While we are on the LP/12. Another cheap tweek is to remove the bottom board. When you do this you can't use the stock feet. Go to target and buy the 3M clear round poly feet I think 1/2 or 3/8 inch in diameter and very thin. Stick them on the corners of the plinth. Again more quiet more detail. $2.00 investment.

I've owned three (3) lp-12's over the last 20 years. I can count on one hand the number of times the felt mat stuck to the record. Also, I agree with the guy that likes the felt mat better. It is. One in every crowd!

Or, if you've got some extra green burning a hole in your pocket, get a VPI record cleaner. After I clean a record with this and put it into a VPI non static record sleeve, there is no more static. I do not have to use a record brush anymore and the felt mat never sticks to the record anymore. Besides, the VPI makes the record sound really good, it cleans up the midrange and gets rid of of a lot of noise that I used to think was due to scratches - it was just dirt.

Mike