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Product Description

The new universal “Strata Mat” from Origin Live is a multi-layer platter mat designed to dramatically improve the performance of all turntables.

If you own a turntable the Strata Mat offers a great opportunity to experience a very significant upgrade.

Chris Frankland writes “What I think impressed me most about the Origin Live Strata turntable mat was how consistently it performed across a wide variety of different turntables with different platter materials, irrespective of the price of the turntable and whether its platter was made from some sort of plastic, metal alloy, glass or ceramic. I tried it on many turntables and every time it noticeably cleaned up the sound, removing any aggressive or forward edge, allowing the inner detail on guitar, percussion, saxophone or vocals to shine through. It provided an insight into the various layers of the music and its tight,tuneful and fast-moving bass always imbued the music with great rhythmic integrity and drive”

The Strata is designed to dramatically upgrade the performance all decks. It is only 5mm thick and after substituting it for your current mat the arm height usually only needs to increase by 3mm. We offer the mat with a 30 day money back guarantee should you be anything less than delighted with the performance.

You may have a turntable with a good bearing, motor drive, plinth isolation and so on but the all important interface with the Vinyl record has never been optimised. The Strata Mat will solve this issue.
Having listened to many different platter mats in our R & D, we’ve found that the problem with most is that they only work over a specific frequency range. Meaning that they do little to help absorb frequencies within other important ranges. It’s obvious that when you try different mat materials under your records, they contribute to the characteristics of the sound in very different ways. Some heighten detail at the expense of warmth and bass. Some produce a wonderfully impressive transparent sound but kick deep bass into the long grass. Others are the opposite, with great bass but a loss of clarity and a murky treble.
The only way to solve this issue is to use multiple materials arranged so they improve all aspects of sound quality such as detail retrieval, decay, mid-band transparency, separation, and deep dynamic bass. Producing a mat that betters other mats in every respect is not easy and has taken many years of patient and expensive research. However, the results have proven to be spectacular so we are now offering a new level of performance for all turntables which can accept a 5mm thick mat. Bear in mind that you will remove your existing mat; so for many decks with say a 2mm thick felt mat, the increase in record height is only 3mm.
As a rule, the parts of a turntable closest to the cartridge have a far more significant influence on performance than items further away (due to energy dissipation). To dissipate energy quickly and effectively near the cartridge demands fast energy transmission and absorption. But as discussed before, no single material can effectively dissipate the whole spectrum of vibration produced by your cartridge. The multi-layer approach dissipates energy from the cartridge over a large area, then absorbs the different frequencies using various sub-layers of different materials specifically selected to handle particular frequency ranges. When this is carried out successfully there is a huge improvement in clarity and timing in your music. Smearing and artefacts in your replay are significantly reduced, allowing you to hear deep into the musical mix and hear hitherto unnoticed aspects of the music.

Our thanks go to Tony Sharman for his considerable input in the development of the Strata.

Specifications

Product Type
Platter Mat
Brand
Origin Live
Condition
New
Product Code
ASIGLEATHERMAT
Weight
1kg

Delivery Information

Delivery is free for all orders over £250.

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