The amazing new Marigo Evolution Signature Mat


I want to share my amazingly positive experience with the new Marigo Evolution Signature CD Mat. I have used Marigo's CD mats over the years from their very first offering, I believe about fifteen or so years ago. The Evolution Signature mat is the fourth iteration of the Marigo mat. Each successive "generation" had wrought positive improvements from my Mark Levinson Reference 31.5 transport. (While the top loading Levinson comes with its own CD clamp, I have ordered parts from Levinson and have made my own CD clamp, substituting their carbon fiber disk for your Marigo mat.) The latest Evolution Signature mat's improvement is so substantial that it is a larger "jump" in performance than from the standard Levinson clamp to the last generation "3D Signature V2" mat!
I hear a startling increase in the focus of imaging placement within the sound stage. The focus of everything in that sound stage is both tighter and possesses a three dimensional body that most digital simply lacks. Tone saturation is richer. The bass not only goes deeper, but is more tuneful as well. The highs are better defined and extended. The mid range is the icing on the cake. Voices are much better defined and clarified, combined with the improvement in density of tone and harmonic texture now sound shockingly real and alive. The sense of space and performance venue is greatly improved as well.

Overall the music has so much more of a relaxed quality to it similar to that of master tape analogue that allows me to simply listen to the music and not work as hard having my brain trying to connect the "digital dots". The increased resolution, focus, dynamics, detail, sense of space, articulation, and what I would call a "continuousness" of saturated tone, all combine to literally transform my digital playback to a level that I have never experienced before! I know that this must seem like hyperbole. The overall improvement is SHOCKING!

In the context of my high end system the $200 that I had paid for Evolution Signature mat that replaced the Reference V2 mat, was the cheapest money that I have ever spent for the most improvement in my system!

If anyone has a Reference V2 mat, they may be loathe to replace it, as it is most excellent. I can tell you from first hand experience, that the new Evolution signature mat is on a whole different and much higher level of sonic improvement.

For anyone has never tried a Marigo CD mat or any mat for that matter, this is the one to have. This is not just a simple "tweak", this is an essential and basically "give away" priced in terms of the substantial sonic upgrade that truly must be experienced to be believed. In the context of my high end audio system, this is making an improvement that I did not think possible and at a price that was ridiculously low. Based on my listening experience, this may be the biggest bargain in audio today!
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After reading all the hype about the CD mat, I decided to purchase one from MusicDirect. I received mine yesterday and heard NO DIFFERENCE at all. On my system their was absolutely no sonic improvement. Just sent it back today.
Cary CD-500
PassLabs XP-10 preamp
Pass Labs X250.5 amp
Vandersteen 5A speakers
I should stick to your MP3 player Ziggy. if you are unable to hear any difference with the Evolution mat, you either have a serious issue with your CD player or your hearing. I was so delighted with the new mat I sent Ron at Marigo Labs an immediate note to congratulate him,see below:

I have just received your Evolution signature CD mat from one of your U.K. suppliers (Absolute Analogue) . I was thinking of replacing my current CD Mat (Marigo Signature) but I waited and was hoping you were working on an update - which you were!
This new CD mat is so wonderful, I felt I had to send a note to congratulate you. My CD player is a Naim CDX2 which has a retaining puck for the CD. The thinner mat is great as the puck is now at its most effective- an added bonus.
All your very wide ranging claims for this mat are true!! I have brought my CD replay up to a very high standard in the last few years with the best supports, mains filtration , mains cables etc. The lower noise floor with this mat is equal to one (or more !) major component upgrades. I swear the the mat is becoming more effective the more Cd's I play! Impossible of course but on the best sound quality CD, the sound is truly amazing. Listening to my Pete Hurford Bach Organ CD's at full belt all the wonderful sonic benefits are heard.
Congratulations again, please keep working on improvements!!!
i have several cd players, and a transport.

the transport is a ps audio perfect wave dac. my favorite cd player is the audionote cd2. ialso own other cd players.

with respect to cd mats, of which i have several, including the previous marigo mat and millenium mat,

both the ps audio and audionote when used with a mat, sontribute to a degradtion of sound.

so inaddition to an improvement in sound, no difference in sound add a cd mat as detrimental to the sound.

while the latter case seems counter intuitive, you'll have to trust me on my perception because there is no evidence to disconfirm it.

of course i'll admit that one person's idea of an improvement may be another's sense of a worsening of sound.

incidentally, in all of the posts where components are compared and assertions are made as to one sounding better than another, the subjective nature, and the connotating criteria, vary among audiophiles.

such is the reason for being careful when making a serious decision based upon sense perception.

when one can return a component, the cost is only shipping.