The authoritative magazine STEREOPHILE has included the Super Mat Chakra Limited LP in the list “RECOMMENDED COMPONENTS 2024 EDITION PHONO ACCESSORIES”
MAT CHAKRA LIMITED LP: $350
This thin, stiff, lightweight, moderately flexible platter mat is made from an undisclosed material with a sandpaper-like finish. With the Chakra in place Michael Fremer found that, compared with OMA’s polycrystalline graphite mat, the aggressive-sounding LP of Shostakovich’s聽The Age of Gold Ballet Suite聽(RCA LSC-2322) offered a deeper stage, the massed strings had a touch of added warmth, and the woodwinds were a bit less shrill. “The first major orchestral explosion a few minutes in was far less aggressive,” he wrote, and was “presented with greater realism and especially control鈥攊t didn’t jump forward on the stage.” (Vol.45 No.5 WWW)
