Accustic Arts

I guess I expected the BA Stabilizer to be a replacement puck not a mat. I assume that one continues to use the puck. I even think I have one of these mats. I have about six different cd mats, none of which did anything for me before, but maybe with the new AA Drive One, mk II, one will.

Teajay, we await your impressions of the mat. I wonder what the folks at AA would have to say. I do wonder about the size of the puck comment, why couldn't AA have figured that out? Would they design a puck that wasn't big enough or adequate for dampening? Could that possibly be true? I'm skeptical. If true, I'm sure they could desingn a bigger, weightier puck if it made a difference. But I remain curious about the affect of the BA Stabilizer.

How does it compare to the Marigo?

Teajay, we await your impressions of the mat. I wonder what the folks at AA would have to say. I do wonder about the size of the puck comment, why couldn't AA have figured that out? Would they design a puck that wasn't big enough or adequate for dampening? Could that possibly be true? I'm skeptical. If true, I'm sure they could desingn a bigger, weightier puck if it made a difference. But I remain curious about the affect of the BA Stabilizer.

To Teajay,
I use the thicker one that measures 1mm thick.
I did not notice any sonic downside with the Boston CD Stabilizer and found the flow of music to be more natural. It is not a flimsy CD mat that can get crumpled like Marigo's etc. It forms a very airtight connection with the CD below and forms quite a rigid clamp with the Accustic Art magnetic CD puck on top

To Tbg
Sorry in my haste to reply, I accidentally kind of portrayed the Boston CD stabilizer as a replacement puck. It is not meant to be a replacement puck, but meant to be complementary to the existing magnetic puck in clamping the whole surface of the CD down. By extending the clamping area of the original CD puck, it should prevent flutter of the CD at the rim when it spins. The idea is not new actually, in Japan one can buy a similar CD stabilizer made of Carbon fibre (Boston uses graphite) that comes with various thickness too. Yet to get my hands on those for comparison. More info on the Japanese equivalent can be found at
http://www.phileweb.com/shop/begins/
(look for CDS-1, can use Babelfish Altavista to translate)