A customer talks about the MAT CHAKRA CD:
“I met Alex Cereda at a dinner among mutual friends and I must say that chatting with him, I was immediately passionate about his philosophy of approach to ‘HIFI’, very different from that of most people, and that in essence I fully share. So, I decided to try and then purchase the Mat Chakra for CD in the “basic” version. I leave out the visual or sensory descriptions. For the technical specifications, ask Alessandro himself.
The mat was tested at length in three different contexts. First at home, and unfortunately not having at this time a preamp, I used my headphone system consisting of the Onix XCD-50 cd player, Audio GD Master 19 amplifier, HiFiMan Ananda headphones connected in balance. Second, in an absolute reference system consisting of Rega Isis cd player, AM Audio A-3 RX preamp, AM Audio A 60 Reference S4 power amplifiers, and AM Audio Supreme Improved speakers. Last, in the system consisting of Naim CDX-3 player, Integrated Aloia 100w x 2 with Yepun based preamp, and Dynaudio focus 360 speakers.
Under all circumstances, the Mat Chakra left listeners pleasantly surprised to say the least…the first word that comes to mind is: great sense of music, much more than just musical expression. There is a distinct feeling of an increased presence of harmonics, resulting in a cadence of instruments and voices much closer to reality. All this to create a very faithful timbral reconstruction of the instruments and voices themselves, with increased silence (or blackness, whatever you want to call it) between them, a high micro-contrast in the context of the individual instrument or voice and an overall macro-contrast.
Listening through the speakers, the soundstage appears “cleaner” and the separation of the instruments more precise and identifiable. In essence I can say, back up by the opinion of others at the listening sessions, that this MAT gives a lash of significant improvement to audiophile listening, and significant, believe me, is no small thing. It brings out the best, or almost the best, of what the same player is able to propose, in respect to its characteristics, among other things with players of very different basic sonic characteristics…..Congratulations to Alessandro Cereda…”
-Vincenzo Garofalo
