New Synergistic Research Record Mat

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?

Yes you did @lewm, but people seem more interested in items of greater retail cost....and on top of that even benefit from an additional expenses, ( a clamp/weight).

Makes no sense to me.

Someone earlier saw a big problem, no recess for lp labels.

That was Mijo.  He has a point.

The MyMat can be made to accomodate the label thickness.

I am liking the Synergisitic mat.  Still listening but there is more information being extracted form those grooves, or so it seems.  Still listening...  I have only been using it with their weight (replacing my HR Heavy) and there is an improvement.