TW Acustic Turntable Mat

I know. I wonder if the stand and a longer belt may have any contribution to the final performance.

If TW Mat is bringing colorations there are very nice colorations - at least in my setup.
So far there are the most pleasant colorations from the lot of tested mats :-)

---> Ebm,
If you have all BN upgrades, can you let me know if you compared a three motor pad - simplified round shape version vs. the version sourced from BN?

I own a Raven AC and currently I am using Boston Audio Mat 2.

In my opinion the problem with Raven and mat is that: for me Raven sounds best without any mat. Just record directly on the copper insert. The mat is needed only for protection reasons.

If someone will be using LP directly on lacquered copper insert it yields to destroying lacquer coating and will allow a copper to oxidize.

From this point of view the quality of lacquer coating is inferior as cannot be used without any protection if we do not want damaging cover. In my opinion Thomas should rethink the lacquer he uses or look around for other coating – maybe galvanized one.

If we think about using a mat the best from practical point of view is a mat that will not slip over platter when we clean a record with brush. My Boston Audio mat is very hard and slippery. Any hard particle between the mat and platter yields to scratching lacquer cover when mat slips over a platter.

I hope that new mat from TW is made of such rubbery, soft and heavy and a little sticky material that will eliminate the problem without necessity of gluing the mat to the platter. Otherwise it does not have sense IMHO.

OK, so the key is to find a mat that will give protection to the lacquer and do not screw up the performance.
Seems that new TW mat will do that. I will try tchem.

EBM,

I also have few upgrades from BN to my AC (cones and battery PSU). Could you kindly let me know what gaind gived adding a copper plater?

Does TW mat slips over a plater when you brush a record without a record clamp?

I have TW mat since two days.
In my opinion it brings TW turntables at new level of performance.

Thanks to thick layer of properly executed damping the mat eliminated a disadvantages of mass loader table and blends the best properities of mass loader and suspended table.

The mat not only sounds great but also adds a protection to the platter. The slip a mat over plate or a record over mat is simply impossible.

Highly recommended.

I think TW platter is not flawed - especially soundwise.
For many of the users TW sounds best without any mat.
I am using mat for protection only and trying to find the mat that do not making TW platter sounds worse. So far TW mat is very good doing this.

What material in your opinion guys should be used in platter? I heard aluminium platter in Acustic Solid TT and it ringed as a bell. Switching to TW was a clear improvement.

I have tried an original rubber mat from old Pioneer turntable, but results were unimpressive.

Quite interesting results and easy to check I got when I placed a second winyl record under the played one.
This brings me to idea of trying Clearaudio Harmonicer mat, which is not very expensive and made of winyl.