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by madprofessor , 27777 Ganderkesee, Germany, Sunday, September 21, 2008, 21:17 (5689 days ago) @ Klaus Wilke

Hallo klaus!
The ESD-mats, You mention, are to work with electrostatic sensitive components, like most integrated circuits. Thes circuits - for example computer boards, have in each chip (IC) an overvoltage protection up to 1000 V. The purpose of that ESD mats is to give a kind of connection to earth, to avoid high voltages. Due to that fact, the inner resistance of that mats is in the range of Meg-Ohms. For shielding of audio-equipment, they are absolutely useless! The way Bert went with his equipment stand, , ist very reasonable. You also can use thick alloy plates, copper plates or expensive Mu-metal. I´m experimenting with boards of alloy foam, which give excellent results - also in way of microphonic effects and sonics.
By the way, new ESD-mats have a strong smell of plastic, which I personally dislike...
Best regards
Stephan