The amazing new Marigo Evolution Signature Mat


I want to share my amazingly positive experience with the new Marigo Evolution Signature CD Mat. I have used Marigo's CD mats over the years from their very first offering, I believe about fifteen or so years ago. The Evolution Signature mat is the fourth iteration of the Marigo mat. Each successive "generation" had wrought positive improvements from my Mark Levinson Reference 31.5 transport. (While the top loading Levinson comes with its own CD clamp, I have ordered parts from Levinson and have made my own CD clamp, substituting their carbon fiber disk for your Marigo mat.) The latest Evolution Signature mat's improvement is so substantial that it is a larger "jump" in performance than from the standard Levinson clamp to the last generation "3D Signature V2" mat!
I hear a startling increase in the focus of imaging placement within the sound stage. The focus of everything in that sound stage is both tighter and possesses a three dimensional body that most digital simply lacks. Tone saturation is richer. The bass not only goes deeper, but is more tuneful as well. The highs are better defined and extended. The mid range is the icing on the cake. Voices are much better defined and clarified, combined with the improvement in density of tone and harmonic texture now sound shockingly real and alive. The sense of space and performance venue is greatly improved as well.

Overall the music has so much more of a relaxed quality to it similar to that of master tape analogue that allows me to simply listen to the music and not work as hard having my brain trying to connect the "digital dots". The increased resolution, focus, dynamics, detail, sense of space, articulation, and what I would call a "continuousness" of saturated tone, all combine to literally transform my digital playback to a level that I have never experienced before! I know that this must seem like hyperbole. The overall improvement is SHOCKING!

In the context of my high end system the $200 that I had paid for Evolution Signature mat that replaced the Reference V2 mat, was the cheapest money that I have ever spent for the most improvement in my system!

If anyone has a Reference V2 mat, they may be loathe to replace it, as it is most excellent. I can tell you from first hand experience, that the new Evolution signature mat is on a whole different and much higher level of sonic improvement.

For anyone has never tried a Marigo CD mat or any mat for that matter, this is the one to have. This is not just a simple "tweak", this is an essential and basically "give away" priced in terms of the substantial sonic upgrade that truly must be experienced to be believed. In the context of my high end audio system, this is making an improvement that I did not think possible and at a price that was ridiculously low. Based on my listening experience, this may be the biggest bargain in audio today!
coopersark
IMO it is not implausible that this mat could significantly improve the quality of real-time playback of a cd, for instance by making it easier for the transport's servo mechanisms to track the pits, thereby reducing the amount of noise they may generate that is coupled into unrelated circuits; by reducing jitter; perhaps by reducing the number of errors that cannot be bit-perfectly corrected by the powerful error correcting codes that are utilized on cd's, etc.

However, if the disk is ripped to a computer hard drive using software that assures a bit-perfect file, the result, with or without the mat, will be ... a bit-perfect file.

Regards,
-- Al
Thank you Coopersark.

Given the limited information you care to share during your 12 day campaign here, none of what you claim to hear is believable.

Happy New Year.
Maril555,
Thank you for taking my side! I just wanted to do the audio community a favor in sharing my unbridled enthusiasm for a new product, one that is WAY better than anything else that I have heard before. If someone want to be skeptical it is their right and privilege to do so. If they want to be enlightened then they can take off the plate that I have passed to them.
With appreciation,
Coopersark
Anything you despirately *want* to sound better *will* sound better.

If you paid money for a bag of rocks that you actually think will make your interconnects perform better, they will.

If you paid money for a chip to place atop your player, and believe that an enhancement has taken place, it has.

If you paid money for a phone call to your house that will supposedly affect your system in some positive way, it will.

So, if you paid money for a rubber mat to place on your discs, and believe it makes a SHOCKING improvement (though preventing your player's motor from spinning as intended), then it has.

Heck, I poured 10 pints of heavy Belgian brew down my pie hole the other night and was amazed at how positively it affected every aspect of my system.

Seriously, though, the mind's power to make one believe almost anything is what's truly SHOCKING. And the above are a examples are what I believe to be one of the most hilarious phychological marketing experiments ever.
You got it backwards. The examples you gave actually illustrate the negative expectation bias - if you think the device in question is so preposterous that it can't possibly work, then guess what? It won't.