New VPI anti-static mat for Classic Platter

How soon they forget....

Harry likes to tweak and address user concerns. When he finds something that works, he makes it available. Is he in the business to make money? Of course. But he also provides very good performing products right out of the box.

Linn and ARC are probably the BIGGEST offenders when it comes to upgrades.

My understanding was it was too expensive to keep making acrylic platters or super platters, hence the all-aluminum platter. A few years ago I compared an acrylic platter, super platter and all-aluminum platter on the same VPI table and system. I personally found the super platter > acrylic platter > aluminum platter.

Harry is now on to ceramic coated aluminum platters and anti-static mats.

I agree with some above posters, that $50 mat to reduce static is good, no matter who makes it. I doubt it improves sound much. As for platters and Harry's business schemes.........well I agree with everyone: VPI is a great American company that makes products commensurate to its prices and the recent strategies of VPI are more business - money reacted, not a search for improved or absolute sound.

Please stop defending "Harry" as if he were your uncle. His company has made excellent products in the past and still does but his pricing policy is a marketing dream come true. Every "improvement" he comes up with, and believe me some are ludicrous, just adds to the bottom line, more and more money. VPI has been reinventing the wheel for decades now and I am amazed at what I read here concerning the differences in sound quality one can supposedly hear. Did I hear a big difference between my TNT jr and my HW-19 jr, heck yeah. Did I hear a big difference between my Scout and Scoutmaster? Not so much. I used to say that coke was Gods way of telling you had too much money, now it is company's like this that serve the same purpose.

Stringreen, is your mat solid or is it perforated?

hiendmuse mine is solid