Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat

A dynamic, open system you have!  

Thanks for making a video--we should all be doing this.  What did you record with, Jmols?

If I had a smart phone, I might have guessed---still with flip phone here---amazing what can be heard.  
So there are no other speakers in those cabinets?  Not bad at all!   

Cell phone, WiFi, blue tooth, AM, FM, VHF, UHF, microwaves, digital broadcasts, baby monitors, transmission lines, short wave, CB---what is coursing through your home, body and stereo system, and what can be done to mitigate these pervasive effects? 

Thanks for your positive report, mac---glad you have "seen the light".  As you connect up your new components, paste all those connections with your TC, re-place mat and cards, sit back and listen for the accumulative improvements over weeks.  

I had been adding Omega E mats one-by-one over several months and enjoying each improvement the four mats brought.  This week, I placed a mega-bundle of four more E mats all at once to further shield my CDP (four mats now) and to fully cover underneath the mono blocks (two each).  The improvements in detail and soundstage began to emerge in a matter of even one hour.  

I was then inspired to pull together every source of EMI I could think of (there's more) and post it above (see my post #400).  Like many, I've been aware that cables and cords do make good antennas and need some shielding from EMI----did that, job done, forgot about it.  

The pervasiveness of EMI in our homes and systems has been proven by Tim Mrock, then innovator of the E mats and cards, to have much, much more of a degrading effect on our audio/visual systems than previously recognized.  Tim has successfully demonstrated the overwhelming presence and effects of EMI by inventing the device that effectively shields it out of our systems.    

Continuing from above:  

It can be said, "Well, we've always known EMI can be a problem."  However, has anyone else shown to the degree of this effectiveness--at the level of the end user--just how much of a problem EMI really is?  If so, I have not heard of that person or product.  

Regarding Total Contact, the material that fills in voids and irregularities in mated surfaces, I have proposed that anyone with a component sound system that is connected up by wires and cables will benefit from TC because a connection is never as good as a continuous pathway. Naturally, with portable and interchangeable devices, we must make connections. TC enhances those connections to a stunning degree of performance.  Tim has shown us this, as well.  

If you are a designer of audio gear, if you are an EE, if you have vast knowledge and a superior audio system, you are not immune to the detrimental effects of component connections and EMI---doesn't matter who you are or what you have in equipment.  All any of us have is a signal in a wire---and a lot of EMI to go along with it.  I would like the commentary of some authorities here on this topic. If I appear to be promoting a product, I am, insofar that the inventor behind this singular product cannot be separated from its enlightening benefits in the attenuation of EMI.   

    

Eddy, I was also so satisfied with my SR Blues and other tweaks,  I did not make the jump to TC for some time. Like other products, I made my decision on the positive reports that kept coming in.    

"First you think you are ’there’, and wonder how your system can sound any better." sgordon1

How many times I have thought that--must be twenty or more. The beauty of the Omega E-mats is that, after all the gear changes and tweaks, my system has never sounded this good----and it’s the same system I put together years ago by installing clean power, by adding quality components, by solving the common problems--I did it right. I would also say to all of you who are reading here, "You did your homework, you have chosen carefully. You’ve done well."

And through it all, who would have thought it has been EMI all along that has held the sound of their good systems in check. By placing the mats under and over components, by hearing the dramatic improvements, there can be no doubt--at least for me--that every piece of gear has been like a radio receiver for EMI, and all that noise has prevented my system from performing up to its potential---until now.


Sitting here, listening with ten mats, most placed in the past eight days, and I am hearing so much more detail and clarity. I placed one under each Maggie 3.6R to shield the crossovers, fuse banks and input wires, and I am already beyond pleased. I believe that the Omega E-mat deserves "Product Of The Year" in its category by the reviewers’ votes from a major magazine. There is simply nothing this good that has come around in a long time.  

I looked at the AMD website.  I am beyond wall-plug filters---don't like 'em for what I have--thanks, though, 

Geez, looks like I missed all the action here---was up late, listening to older music, hearing "Abbey Road" and "Seventh Sojourn" through the new E mats. The Beatles CD reissues from ’09 are definitive, and the Moodies reissues, overseen by Justin Hayward, are sonic improvements from past collections, even MFSL Gold. The E mats takes them so far beyond THAT by sorting out each instrumental track to a clarity I have never heard. And the Grateful Dead?  
"If you get confused, listen to the music play" JG

Not listening, but working, the past four days--the new Omega mats have further linked with the components.  Al Stewart's "Modern Times" and "Year of the Cat", both lush productions by Alan Parsons, including orchestral arrangements, are velvety smooth and rich in inner detail. A double-album CD by "Friday Music", 'Original Master Recordings'.  This is one '70's recording that came out very well many years later on digital, and are so well presented through the signal protection of the Omega E mats.  

As the Omega mats continue to refine the sound, I cannot find a CD I don't like.  New sounds are appearing for the first time, like stars in the night sky, previously hidden by city lights. There's a Milky Way of sound density being revealed, free of RFI pollution.  

Bob James' '78 classic, "Touchdown" just became three dimensional on red book.  It was good before Omega E mats--now it comes right out into the room.  

Nice to hear how happy you are, mac.  Can it get better?  Yes, very much better. I started with one Omega mat and was pleased. I added another---more bliss---then another and one more, for four.  Every addition brought more information and clarity.  By then, the PPT online packages were available---I am somehow up to 10 Omega mats now--under and over components, under Maggies.  I have been trying to describe the changes--beyond words.  So yes, you cannot go wrong with more mats, only better.  I am not done adding Omega mats--need some more for audio and then video. 

"January 2019 marks the one year anniversary of Perfect Path Technologies. Tim and I want to thank you all for your support and interest. 2019 is going to be incredible."

Congrats Tim and Krissy on the success of PPT.  We are all celebrating the outstanding sonic improvements brought to our systems by your products. I am looking forward to The Gate in 2019.

Fabulous results, kedoades.  I agree--all the RFI that was a source of edginess or glare in my system has been attenuated.  The sound has been made smooth and relaxed by Total Contact and Omega mats, and the increase in clarity and information retrieved just gets better as more mats are added.  As the noise floor drops, more inner detail, extended decay and expansion of the sound stage is what has been happening for me and should be expected by you.   

Yeah, you picked the wrong thread to have some fun on, Elizabeth. Per your own thread, it really IS time to just quit.....at least, here.  

Yes, this thread has remained civil because we insist that it does.  The PPT products not only provide breakthrough improvements--the creators of PPT are here, interacting with us to provide support, advice and great service.  PPT represents all they have worked and risked for, so the criticisms on here become a bit more personal I would suggest.  
As many have pointed out, there is no risk in trying PPT products, so please try them, and don't knock them until you have.   

As the noise floor drops using PPT products, the extended reverberation time and the hall-like ambience is mind blowing. Some like the as-is sound of a padded studio room--I’m not sure where artificial begins and realism ends---have to accept the sound as what was intended.  

And a Happy Birthday to you, sir!

Fabulous Stereotimes review!  

Is it possible to use so much TC that it takes more time than usual for improvement in sound?  I built four short Maggie crossover jumper cables using stranded  Furutech speaker wire terminated by set screw pressure against wire inside of barrel (gold) of banana connector.  I coated the outside of the stranded braid thickly, thinking it would all spread out as the set screw flattened the wire outward in the barrel.  The jumpers did not sound as good as I had hoped at first--they are improving after a week (25 hrs).  The parts are of good quality---wondering if too much TC is possible, or is it self-limiting over time and just taking more time as it cures.  Tim/Krissy?     

Thanks Tim, that does help a lot.  Yes, all parts are new. I only did one side for now--the Furutech is competing with the Cardas jumper kit with their Maggie pins. I was always suspect of the small wire gauge on that kit---tuns out they sound pretty good, but the Furutech is gaining.  Omega mats lie beneath each Maggie, covering crossovers, fuse banks, wire connections---outstanding improvements. 

Seems like some of us are ready for another round of Omega Mats?  

Yes---thirty-four pages of positive attestations regarding the breakthrough products of PPT.   

@elizabeth, the endless love for PPT is because these are breakthrough products that have transformed our systems. Read that StereoTimes review--same conclusion.  And what is this 44 sales number?  Find the PPT website.  

You've made some big purchases lately and feel that your system is where you want it---fine---we all felt that way--until PPT.  Now, our systems sound as they should.  Your task is to read back and find out why PPT does this for a system.  The clues are there.   

Update on the Maggie jumper cables I built a month ago using Furutech OCC wire and their gold bananas, which terminate with set screw pressure against wire in barrel. While I have built several AC cords using Furutech parts, these jumpers are the first connections I have put together using TC, and I have to say TC is the perfect solution for a non-soldered connection. In keeping with TC’s ability to match up the surfaces in mated connections meant to come apart, it is just as effective in a primary connection. There is no reason now why you cannot build excellent cables instead of spending thousands of dollars on cables that don’t have TC in their screw-clamp connections.  


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4jCKHRvWu0&start_radio=1&list=RDR4jCKHRvWu0

Thanks for this announcement---clean AC power is of bedrock importance in achieving superior sound from any system.  The details of this new product will be very interesting!  

How is price determined?  Not sure, but consider this:  You cannot spend your way past noisy AC.  Add in more expensive amps, players, tables, cables and you still will not defeat the distortion and noise inherent in a dirty energy supply.  It must be addressed.  When it is, a much more modest system in cost will be rewarding.  Even when I thought I had taken out AC noise and sags, my perception of that was changed after adding in Omega E mats.  The noise we live with is all-encompassing.  So, what it's worth to have another product that will solve a fundamental problem?   

Congrats, bat, you will be greatly rewarded by Total Contact and the mats.  They are addictive, as in, need more.  The great part is that they continue to improve over weeks, so you don't need more right away.  Looks like you have a primo set up--your PPT applications will bring out the best.