NAC CP gloss or matte?

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NAC CP gloss or matte?

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Just canvasing some opinion from NAC owners -

I have 2 cps on machines and a spare that are in good-ish shape but looking at getting one or two repros - the Cp's seem to vary some more matte some more gloss/shiny - wondered what people had, if they had a view - both look decent to me.
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The panels originally have a matt coating on them, but it can get worn/scratched away to reveal the glossy polycarbonate. I had one that got some damage to the matt finish, so I removed the buttons, and sticks, then went over it with a mini polishing mop and T-cut to remove the matt coating and made it all uniform glossy
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Actually, Sega, Seimitsu and Sanwa all had slightly different looking overlays. For instance I have a 1P panel by Seimitsu that is matte, while an original 2L6B Sega panel is glossy. From the panels above, the two first panels are either by Sanwa or Seimitsu (notice the Licensed by Sega bit) and the bottom one is by Sega.

Or they're all repros. Who knows these days.

I don't really mind if it's glossy or matte, as long as the finish is hard wearing. The Seimitsu panel I have scratches really easily...
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great info cheers. would you say the bottom one is a glossy finish ?? (this is not a test :D )
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The original Astro panels I have are definitely glossy as opposed to matte. They don't have a mirror finish though. So I don't know, semi-glossy?
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Yeah if they were paint they'd be satin as opposed to gloss.
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