why felt?

I think that you will find record mats are a form of tuning devices for your record player.

Use a record mat to achieve your personal listening perference or to tame or modify the sound originally designed in the platter by the turntable designer. That's why there no black and white answers when it comes to the question as to what works best.

Cornfed, sorry you are. Not felt-up, felt Mat. Nor he either you crazy pervert you...

Just for the fun of it, I'm curious....How many of you change the VTA/VTF when you listen to different mats of varying thickness? I suspect some of the differences you hear may be more assignable to the changes in the VTA than the differences wrought by the mat.

Note, I AM NOT saying there is no difference in the sound that mats can bring. In fact, all of the issues and theories assigned to TT set up to deal with vibration can probably be assigned to TT mats as well.

I'm saying that there is a world of difference in the way mats sound. ..a sound quite different than that of VTA adjustment. I found that a very excellent mat is the very inexpensive non-felt mat. The difference is very dramatic between this and the regular felt mat and all for the better. Contact me for more info

Sgreen, Is this an invitation to a commercial. If not, why don't you just tell us about the "non-felt" mat. If it is an invitation, don't bother.