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
I consider Rob a friend and very knowledgeable. He owns a top flight system, two actually. If Rob recommends checking out the mat, for 200 bucks, it's a no-brainer. Just sayin'
Believe me, if I put may name behind something, it is not a shill. My name and reputation are much more important than any manufacturer's product. This is, in fact, simply one of the most shocking revelations that I have had in over thirty five years experiencing an audiophile! I mis posted the first one and that is why two posts. See if you can borrow or try one of these mats for yourself. I think that you will be amazed.
>Congrats Cooper! You managed to use most, if not all, of the popular audiophile descriptive phrases and terminology in a singe post! Respectfully, your post comes across as a shill for this product. You have three posts on Audiogon and two are about this mat. So...just sayin.<

His post reads exactly like a Doug Schroeder Dagogo review. He might have a future in webzine reviewing after all....

Shakey
Thanks Shakey. I do not want nor need a future career in webzine reviewing. All I wanted to do was share my unbridled enthusiasm for a game changing and low cost accessory, that in the context of my main audio system elevated it to a whole new level of enjoyment. I have been an audiophile for over 35 years. In that time, I have not experienced a product that has delivered so much of a startling and major sonic improvement for so little expenditure. I simply want to share that enthusiasm with other people in the hobby. Assuming that you have a resolving system, this is a no brainier "must try" accessory. As far as I am concerned, the sonic improvements are so great, that for me, this new Marigo Evolution mat now an essential component! I am simply awestruck by this one!!!

For what it is worth, my wife joined me in a listening session in our sound room the other evening. She had no knowledge of the CD mat change that I had made. When I had started to talk as music was playing, and she "shushed" me immediately. She then proceeded to listen for a much longer time than she usually does. Basically,she did not want to leave the room! When we had finally called it a night, she then commented "Your audio system has never sounded better - ever". Coming from my non audiophile wife, that is about as strong of an endorsement as I will get.