How much are you willing to spend on a mat? For a couple of bucks you can cut one out of cork or use stick-on cork dots and it will sound quite good against most comers. Not the "best" but quite good and you'll have some cash left for LP's.

Do you mean the felt was not cut to an even thickness? I've never seen that before. If you can afford a graphite mat like Boston Audio Design's Mat 1 ($200), you'll be very happy with it and it won't attract dust like a felt mat does.-MF

I never thought a mat could do that much until I got a Funk Firm Achromat- that thing is amazing! On an already excellent TT (the Well-Tempered Turntable) it kicked up performance a notch on all levels. Highly recommended and reasonable at about $100.

Achromat

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I never thought a mat could do that much until I got a Funk Firm Achromat- that thing is amazing! On an already excellent TT (the Well-Tempered Turntable) it kicked up performance a notch on all levels. Highly recommended and reasonable at about $100.

Achromat

Just read the 'bit' there, Doug. Makes some decent kind of sense-which is part of my argument about acrylic alone NOT being the bee's knees. Composite platters tend to work the best with regards to absorption and reflection.

I might try one out. Now...I have to brainstorm on how to get one cheap .... Once a cheapskate, always a cheapskate.

Of course, I JUST yesterday finalized a new design of 'footers' which I tried on my LP-12, it being a bit sensitive to such things. I'd send a set to Art, but he just Trebucheted his LP-12 out of the house.......

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I'd send a set to Art, but he just trebucheted his LP-12 out of the house.......

This thread is useless without a good video...

No question that on most audio items that have a physical/mechanical component multi layering is the way to go. Trouble is, it's expensive to do it so it's not used as much as it could be...

Art had two...he only got rid of one of his LP12s.

I just want to see the trebuchet launch.