Wand Mat, Wand Weight and Vinyl Valet turntable accessories

 We estimate more than 95% of the energy from a stylus tracking a LP groove goes into vibration.
 Dealing with vibration is key to all our products. Releasing musical magic.

Wand Mat

"... the carbon mat delivered improved detail and focus. Maybe it is those radial slits- who knows? --but Simon Brown clearly knows what he is doing."

Michael Trei  writing in Stereophile   

The Wand Mat consists of a thin layer of carbon-fibre, chosen for its ability to dissipate vibration and yet to acoustically match the record resting on it.

The logic to the slits in the mat is that they are there to break up any vibrational modes in the mat. Also to contain the vibrations to a pocket where they decay while being rotated away from the stylus. Without slits, the vibrations find an easier path back to the stylus.

The Wand Mat is NZ Registered Design #432052 (A Design Patent in the US) 

The slim nature of The Wand Mat allows it to be used without altering VTA on turntables. It can also be used on some vacuum hold down turntables like TechDAS. It is a useful upgrade for many classic turntables. It also means it can fit on turntables like the Technics SL10 or Michell with their clamps.

The Wand Weight

The Wand Weight was inspired by talking with Gary Koh of Genesis Advanced Technologies, he told me how he had been experimenting with disrupting the vibration modes in LP’s using not quite symmetric contact points. This tied in with my own experiments with record weights.  The Wand Weight is ~600g of carefully shaped bronze. It sits on three balls of different materials placed in calculated positions. 

Reviews of the Wand Mat and Wand Weight: 

Analogue Fellowship: Here

Audiophile.fr: Here (Translated)

Part Time Audiophile: Coming....

Information Sheet for Wand Mat and Wand Weight: Here

Wand Vinyl Valet

The Wand Vinyl Valet™ is an organiser for your vinyl “workstation”. A place to keep some of the clutter that often gathers around many enthusiast turntables.

As well as a slot to display the jacket of the LP in play, there are recesses for a number of common items, such as a record cleaning brush. It is made of Birch plywood and has the same form factor as The Wand EQ Phono stage

Weight; 650g

Wand Vinyl Valet; Information Sheet