For several years I used Origin Live mats on both my GAE and my VPI HW-40. A few months ago I switched to the newer Origin Strata. I could not believe the improvement. It is well worth the price, at 295 British Pounds, money back guarantee. You can't go wrong. One word of advice, Origin offers a special reduced size mat for Technics TTs, I don't like it, it looks funny. Buy the standard size mat. Either size works fine and sounds the same to my ears, I own both as bought one for my VPI too. BTW, I have tried them all, including a mega buck paper thingy from Japan that sounded pretty good too, but this Strata beats them all hands down.
