Acrylic Mat Vs Cork Mat

The cork rubber and glass mats are affordable.

Acrylic mat vs cork mat.

Ordered a pro ject cork it cork mat to go with my por ject carbon debut. I had seen cork mats in audio magazines but i was not sure if the cost was worth it. The type of material affects the weight size and smoothness of the mat. The base laayer is a 1 16 thick cork base while the surface is peppered with 1 16 spheres hence giving the entire cork turntable mat to have a thickness of 1 8.

Acrylic 2 to 3 mm 2. Cork rubber 2 to 3 mm 5. I looked on both amazon and ebay to see what my options were. Rubber 2 to 3 mm 6.

About 4 years ago i decided to upgrade my rubber turntable mat. The mat can be glass rubber cork leather cork and rubber fern acrylic among others. Cow hide leather 2 to 3 mm 9. Felt 1 to 2 mm 7.

When you place a record directly onto the acrylic surface without a slip mat the record is effectively coupled with the playing surface. Does using a felt mat or a cork mat on your turntable make a difference to the sound produced by your record player. This makes acrylic far better at controlling resonance generated by the stylus scrubbing in the record groove than traditional felt cork or leather mats. Cork 2 to 3 mm 4.

Again made by hudson hi fi this corkery decoupled cork n rubber turntable platter mat proves to be unique in its own sense. I was very impressed with this hudson acrylic turntable mat because i have been using a cork mat for a while with lots of static issues but when i installed this mat on my audio technicia at lp 120 i was amazed because there was no static at all. Deer hide 2 to 3 mm 8. Glass 6 mm 3.

This cork turntable mat consisted of two layers. And so off went the cork mat and on with the hudson mat and every one of my records over 200 played. In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Finally a turntable mat with no static.

Corkery decoupled cork n rubber turntable platter mat. Looks like it should be a very good upgrade. In turn this results in better performance. After looking through listings and reviews i decided on a cork mat and placed my order.

Cost the mat available in the market vary in terms of prices. It is an age old debate as to which one. I actually enjoyed the sound with the metal platter but the mat that came with it is static city so i grabbed the cork it mat and that eliminated the static and seemed to smooth the sound out a bit.