Right lets clear up the "Chinese whispers". The mat is great at replicating searing treble and in some systems this may be too much i.e. system's with excessive gain, a good example being a highout MM cart of lets say 1mv partnered with a phonostage with 40db of gain for example .Totally stupid numbers but hopefully you get the point. I looked at the Marillion track Forgotten Sons & The Ripper by Judas Priest, these are two tracks which have probably more lower E string work than most. The mat replicated the treble energy conveyed of the lower fret work perfectly in my system but your going to get a high searing treble in high-gain phonostage /MM output cartridge rig. So, the intelligent thing to do is either turn the gain down, swap your cart or platter mat. To simply "deadpan" a product because it has the ability to faithfully replicate the high energy treble sitting in the vinyl grooves is silly and a little myopic IMHO (DON'T GET OFFENDED)!!!! I did state in the review "The Lenco does have a high output Shure MM cartridge coupled to the EAR Clone which to some ears can produce an overly energetic treble". In fact I'd even go so far as suggesting that the mat could be used to assess if you have a excessive phonostage gain/ cart output mismatch. It certainly had me questioning my system and I came to the conclusion that this could be the case. Consequently I have swapped over my previous reference platter mat on the 1210 (The Crystal Mat) for the SSS mat and the Crystal Mat now sit's on the Lenco, in fact I'm assessing the effects for a future update in my Lenco L75 blog. The short comings of the Lenco became apparent when using the SSS mat and I'm also now considering a slightly lower MM output to replace my favourite M55E cart. So, to conclude, I'm extremely happy to see all the added benefits of this mat in my 1210 system whilst also being very happy with it highlighting the short comings of the other systems. I'm very thankful for high searing treble!