New Synergistic Research Record Mat


  Just wondering if anyone has tried the new Synergistic Research record mat and if so what your impressions were sound wise.     https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/turntable/uef-record-mat/
Thanks
simguy
I’ll weigh in on this topic. I recently purchased the Combak Harmonix weight and mat. EXPENSIVE! Sorry. I’ve heard so many mats and weights on my table in combination or separately it is nuts. None of them made me use them ongoing. I purchased and sold most of them. They altered frequency energy every time and in varying degrees. My local audio shop owner kept encouraging me to try the Combak Harmonix which I did not because of my experience and the cost. Well I finally did and without doubt it is extraordinary. It somehow leaves the signal in tact with no frequency degradation. There may be other mat weight combos as good but I have been doing high end audio for a long long time and haven’t heard them. A good friend also tried and bought it based on my recommendation.
Maybe if I charged 2, 3 or $400.00 for a MyMat, people would take it more seriously?
I think of record mats as akin to seasoning on food.  Not everyone will have the same preference, and so price of the mat need not have a linear relationship to performance, since performance is both a personal opinion and also dependent upon the other elements in the closed system where the mat does its work (platter, cartridge, tonearm). Or have I already said this somewhere above?