Chip - have you contacted Rega direct to ask why these chose the felt mat ? The RP8 owners manual goes into a lot of "detail" on materials and resonances/matching, but it fails to even mention this "Felt Mat" .
I would be interested in their response.
Pertinent to your thread question.
I go naked with the Verdier Platter, as recommended to me by JC Verdier - when he was alive.
Jean Nantais (turntable manufacturer), permanently bonded a metacrylate mat to the platter of the Lenco I own. How many materials he went through to get to the Meta’ mat is not known to me.
I do own a copper mat from TT weights for the Technics SP10. The SP10 came with a very heavy rubber mat.
I once tried years ago, someone else’s idea - a series of cork dots maybe 10 or 12 in total spread evenly on a turntable platter.
So you see Chip......IMO... some want to rigidly couple the record to the platter (one extreme)......and some others .......want to make it float 8^0
Experiment and form your own opinion.
Cheers
I would be interested in their response.
Pertinent to your thread question.
I go naked with the Verdier Platter, as recommended to me by JC Verdier - when he was alive.
Jean Nantais (turntable manufacturer), permanently bonded a metacrylate mat to the platter of the Lenco I own. How many materials he went through to get to the Meta’ mat is not known to me.
I do own a copper mat from TT weights for the Technics SP10. The SP10 came with a very heavy rubber mat.
I once tried years ago, someone else’s idea - a series of cork dots maybe 10 or 12 in total spread evenly on a turntable platter.
So you see Chip......IMO... some want to rigidly couple the record to the platter (one extreme)......and some others .......want to make it float 8^0
Experiment and form your own opinion.
Cheers