Acrylic Mat Vs Cork

They require a dry cleaning method.

Acrylic mat vs cork.

Does using a felt mat or a cork mat on your turntable make a difference to the sound produced by your record player. The cork rubber and glass mats are affordable. Again made by hudson hi fi this corkery decoupled cork n rubber turntable platter mat proves to be unique in its own sense. Any extra sounds can be further dampened due to the acrylic mat being the same material as a record.

However acrylic and rubber mats are by far the easiest to clean. Cork is way overrated imo. Felt and cork mats however are much more delicate. Corkery decoupled cork n rubber turntable platter mat.

Handmade mats are the most expensive as most buy them custom made to their own liking. When you place a record directly onto the acrylic surface without a slip mat the record is effectively coupled with the playing surface. When buying a mat get one at a pocket friendly price and with good. Cork this natural and inexpensive material helps reduce slipping of a record and also makes it easy to lift your records right off the mat without having to separate the layers like you might with the fabric or rubber mats.

This cork turntable mat consisted of two layers. It is an age old debate as to which one. They sound incredible very low static or noise and nobody knows about them so they are super affordable. In turn this results in better performance.

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. This makes acrylic far better at controlling resonance generated by the stylus scrubbing in the record groove than traditional felt cork or leather mats. Acrylic if you have the option but if you need i do as i use a vintage pioneer tt that i love a slipmat go buckskin all the way.