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
@Bradluke0

"Hate to go into this again but if you cant hear these things dont blame us that can"

Ah, the Golden Ear argument comes into play. Well, I contest that if you can't measure it, it is a meaningless point to argue. And thusfar I've not seen a single measurement referenced.

@Coppersark

I meant to throw this into my initial response to your ridiculous rant:

If a $200 mat can make a shocking improvement in a $10,000 transport, then you need to throw the transport out (and then let ML's engineers and designers know that they need to rethink things).

Lastly, here's *my* rant:

I'm kinda sorry to be such a you-know-what about this stuff, but I suppose I've finally seen the light as of late: hi-end interconnects are BS, hi-end speaker cabling is BS, hi-end power cables are utter BS, mats are BS, cable risers are BS, hi-fi power outlets are BS, wooden/sorbothane/unobtainium feet are BS, several hundred dollar cutting boards are BS, bags of rocks and chips and teleportation tweeks are *utter and complete* BS... And as a group of - I would imagine - relatively intelligent people, we should be able to see (and hear) right through it all.

If your devices vibrate so much that you need to modify them with aftermarket feet/roller blocks/spikes, to isolate or couple the device with aforementioned several hundred dollar cutting board, then you've got bigger problems and need to look into better designed equipment.

If the power from your wall creates so much noise that you need aftermarket power cables and outlets and conditioners and filters then you've got much bigger problems.

If your $10,000 transport needs a $200 mat (which I would guess cost less that 1/10th of that to produce) to really shine, then you need to get another - heck *any* other - transport.

And lastly, if you are so despirate and easily coerced that you will actually spend your hard earned money on blue dots and bags of rocks and little clocks and chips and teleportation tweeks, then you should not be making any life decisions henceforth. Geoffkait, although I don't know you personally, I will just come out and say that what you do is shameful and your "products" should be banned from this site for the sake of the integrity of this hobby that we all love.

I've often thought of how easy it would be to make my own snake oil; how easy it would be to take the proverbial candy from the proverbial baby, but it's not, and never will be, in my nature to do so. I would not be able to sleep at night after just one sale. I'm surprised others are.

This hobby has gone from one that was viewed with fascination and interest to one of complete and total mockery (go ahead and Google "audiophile")...

Don't prepetuate it.
Budt,
Finally, you start making sense.
Ballywho- you are such a sceptic and nihilist, unfortunately, you are wrong on all accounts.
If you cannot measure something, it doesn't mean it's not measurable. Also, it's likely, we just don't know, what to measure.
That horse had been dead for a while now, it's simply back to a following statement- if you cannot hear the difference, it only means one (no, make that two) things- your system. or your ears (or both) are not resolving enough.
Ballywho, since you don't know me and have no experience with my products, perhaps it's actually you who has no integrity, although I can certainly understand your anger and frustration. For your information, not meaning to make you even more angry, I have one of the highest ratings on the site, if not the highest.

Cheers,

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica