Acrylic Mat Vs Cork Mat

Finally a turntable mat with no static.

Acrylic mat vs cork mat.

Deer hide 2 to 3 mm 8. After looking through listings and reviews i decided on a cork mat and placed my order. This cork turntable mat consisted of two layers. Felt 1 to 2 mm 7.

The type of material affects the weight size and smoothness of the mat. Tonight i added the acrylic but have not had a chance to spin many albums. Cost the mat available in the market vary in terms of prices. And so off went the cork mat and on with the hudson mat and every one of my records over 200 played.

The mat can be glass rubber cork leather cork and rubber fern acrylic among others. The material also affects the sound quality of the record playing. Again made by hudson hi fi this corkery decoupled cork n rubber turntable platter mat proves to be unique in its own sense. Corkery decoupled cork n rubber turntable platter mat.

Ordered a pro ject cork it cork mat to go with my por ject carbon debut. The cork rubber and glass mats are affordable. Does using a felt mat or a cork mat on your turntable make a difference to the sound produced by your record player. Sorbothane or foam 1 5 to 2 5 mm the above list is all the different types of platter mat s i have come across being sold by audio stores both on ebay and retail stores.

Cow hide leather 2 to 3 mm 9. Glass 6 mm 3. Rubber 2 to 3 mm 6. 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.

Cork rubber 2 to 3 mm 5. 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. When you place a record directly onto the acrylic surface without a slip mat the record is effectively coupled with the playing surface. In turn this results in better performance.

This makes acrylic far better at controlling resonance generated by the stylus scrubbing in the record groove than traditional felt cork or leather mats. In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. I looked on both amazon and ebay to see what my options were. 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.

Cork 2 to 3 mm 4. It is an age old debate as to which one. Looks like it should be a very good upgrade.