Funk Firm Achromat Turntable Mat

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Funk Firm Achromat is a unique and highly effective turntable mat, offering big improvements over standard felt and other alternative mats, available in 3mm thickness only. The most significant thing to realize about analogue replay is that once you lose any information, it is lost forever; you can never get it back. This is because the groove in a record is actually smaller than the wavelength of light. Diamond styli are more sensitive than Lasers and can be clumsy, so it’s that easy!

The term 'Groove Grinder' for a stylus is really quite apt. The stylus traces the grooves, it actually sets up a musical pressure reaction in the vinyl. On a poor mat, (felt, rubber, glass) these pressure vibrations remain in the record bouncing around and muddling up the sound. So, retrieving our signal is a really delicate task. A well designed mat actually forms a path for the vibrations to travel away from the record. It tricks pressure waves into thinking that they are in a much thicker record - this is the the first requirement.

Now we’ve got to loose this pressure wave energy. Achromat does so by using bubbles. Just as in a quality sponge bed mattress, which both supports and damps, as the thin bubble walls flex in Achromat, it is easy for the energy to be damped out. Sitting a couple of millimeters below the stylus the mat has a very important job to do. Achromat’s improvements are instantaneous.

Bettering all previous mats and platters, even Pink Triangle’s original acrylic, Achromat’s reputation keeps growing; first and foremost because it really works! An instant replacement for your current turntable mat... you will not believe your ears.

Available in 3mm thickness only.

We are authorised Funk Firm retailers. This item is brand new and complete.

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