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Best Platter Material

With different turntable platters being used out there, is there one that is better over amother for vinyl playback?

The most common materials I've come across include:
- aluminum
- acrylic
- glass
- delrin
- ceramic
- copper

Also, if using some sort of platter mat (felt, rubber, cork, etc.) does it even matter which material is being used for the platter?
agiaccio
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rockitman
417 posts
 
12-08-11: Brf
I've read that Clearaudio is switching from acrylic to POM (delrin) with a ss substrate.

They have been Delrin now for quite some time with their upper tier tables (Innovation series), along with the Concept and Ovation models.
dhcod
706 posts
 
Stanwal is absolutely right. I would never have thought, for instance, that a solid state phono preamp could satisfy me. Tube are better than SS. That's until I heard an ASR Basis. Now tubes be damned (sort of). It's all execution. And also execution. And he's especially right about the third thing.
oilmanmojo
472 posts
 
Lead makes a good platter. Walker and Maplenoll utilizes the mass and non resonant qualities to great success.
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