Acrylic Mat Vs Cork

Again made by hudson hi fi this corkery decoupled cork n rubber turntable platter mat proves to be unique in its own sense.

Acrylic mat vs cork.

The acrylic cork rubber and leather are more costly. Handmade mats are the most expensive as most buy them custom made to their own liking. Cork this natural and inexpensive material helps reduce slipping of a record and also makes it easy to lift your records right off the mat without having to separate the layers like you might with the fabric or rubber mats. Any extra sounds can be further dampened due to the acrylic mat being the same material as a record.

You can remove dust and debris from their surface by simply washing them in a sink with a mild detergent much like you might wash or hose off a salon floor mat. When you place a record directly onto the acrylic surface without a slip mat the record is effectively coupled with the playing surface. However acrylic and rubber mats are by far the easiest to clean. In turn this results in better performance.

Cost is dependent on the quality of the materials the way in which the mat was made. This makes acrylic far better at controlling resonance generated by the stylus scrubbing in the record groove than traditional felt cork or leather mats. This cork turntable mat consisted of two layers. The base laayer is a 1 16 thick cork base while the surface is peppered with 1 16 spheres hence giving the entire cork turntable mat to have a thickness of 1 8.

Felt and cork mats however are much more delicate. Acrylic if you have the option but if you need i do as i use a vintage pioneer tt that i love a slipmat go buckskin all the way. It is an age old debate as to which one. Cork is way overrated imo.

They sound incredible very low static or noise and nobody knows about them so they are super affordable. They require a dry cleaning method. The cork rubber and glass mats are affordable.