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RE: Turntable Mats?, or dunce caps?

Posted by beach cruiser on November 23, 2022 at 13:14:34:
one must always be aware that most offered performance upgrades on the internet are nothing more than simply repeated gossip. unsubstantiated stories repeated with nothing more than impressions to recommend them as effective to a particular need.

After all, one must first identify a problem before a remedy can be affected.

Once you get beyond the very basic players, you have to give some credit that the product designers know what they are doing, and have selected a platter vinyl interface that works best for their design.

It would be a tremendous palm plant to the face for a product developed with a lot of care and expense to be successful in a competitive market place, that it could be easily improved by simply changing the selected platter vinyl interface, no matter what an aftermarket mat seller might say, or what might be offer as an improvement over the gossiping internet.

it's not as if the materials were unknown during the product development and various mats were not considered during product design, but rather the designers just decided to just skip it, ignore the plater vinyl interface and just go with whatever happens after the platter is produced.

I often read of a lot of various solutions, but rarely of any specific identified problems these mats actually solved. Most often someone decides that the mat selected " sounds better" perhaps within some kind of experimental context, but rarely to solve an identified flaw with a somewhat frequency specific solution. Given the known verities of human hearing , there are no guarantees that what sounds right to one guy can be reasonably expected to have the same results for you.

internet gossip is no better than the regular kind, it is just more powerfully amplified . believe me, there are a lot of guys with my line of car running around with their air filters turned around backwards because of an unproven suggestion from the internet that they accepted as better.

And this is in spite of GM spending millions of dollars in product testing and years of development , a team of professional automotive engineers with access to supercomputers, far beyond what a turntable manufacture could swing. Plus with cars, performance can be measured, it is not just what one thinks is heard. The logic still doesn't matter to some people, they prefer opinions.

I am not, of course, suggesting that every design is perfect. But jeez, you are giving the manufacturer a certain amount of trust when you fork over the money to buy the product. and yet, all bets are off when it comes to the platter vinyl interface, it's open season for any wild hair idea. Just because something can be easily done, doesn't necessarily mean the change is needed or valid.