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SMD Acoustics Solid Brass Upgraded Platter for Garrard 301/401

  • £2975.00
  • Product Code: SMD Brass Platter

Made in Britain the SMD Acoustics platter is CNC machined from solid brass to very tight tolerances better than two thousandths of an inch. The finish is a very attractive machined finish and not laquered or painted (can be painted if required).

These platters are used in the highly acclaimed SMD Acoustics V2.0 Turntable.

Solid brass is virtually free of any defects and thus perfect for a turntable platter. For reasons of cost (solid brass is very, very expensive and creates a lot of waste during machining) the original platter was cast aluminium and the casting process inevitably suffered from porosity and flaws within the casting these coupled with casting tolerances that can not easily produce a consistent thickness means the platter was not in balance which required the drilling of holes in the platter to try and balance it.

The SMD Acoustics platter is as perfectly balanced as can be achieved with modern state of the art machinery and selection of the best material. This avoids the excessive vibration caused by a badly balanced rotating platter. Such a platter can cause unacceptable levels of noise and detrimental effects on sound quality.

The extra diameter is 7mm over that of a standard platter (If the Garrard 401 has the raised strobe the platter will be the Garrard standard 297mm Diameter) and the upgraded platter has weighs in a massive 10Kgs! around 4 times the weight of an original. The difference is staggering, the extra mass greatly improves the platters inertia and results in added bass delivery, stability of imaging etc. basically it has so much energy in rotation that it takes a lot to stop it spinning. The theory has been well employed over several years and oversize platters have been used by the likes of Shindo for his 301.

We strongly recommend using the uprated bearings from SMD Acoustics in brass or stainless steel due to the high mass of the platter.

The platter looks perfect on the 301 or 401 the extra 7mm is visually unnoticeable unlike some oversize platters which look odd and can iterfere with the speed adjusting control on the 301. This platter will fit your 301 or 401 without any modification.


 

Reviews

Malcolm Littler Customer Review

These are build to order and noramlly ship within 8-10 working weeks.


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