dbneutralizer + grungebuster: Ideal or overkill for metal platter?

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6BQ5

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For someone using a turntable with a metal platter ...

Would a Way Excellent mat perform just as well as ...

A sheet of Dbneutralizer to dampen the platter resonance with a Grungebuster mat on top?

Certainly the latter is way more expensive. Perhaps overkill?

Herbie

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The white foam base of the Way Excellent II Turntable Mat is extemely efficient at damping platter resonance. A Way Excellent II Turntable Mat of sufficient thickness (3.7mm or more) will thoroughly decouple and isolate the record from a resonant metal platter.

A dBNeutralizer mat with grungebuster mat on top would not necessarily be overkill, and the result with some tables would be very good; with most tables though, it wouldn't be as good or better than a Way Excellent II, and would add a lot of weight to the platter.
 
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