Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat

I will be moving into a new home in March/April and cannot install solar on my concrete tile roof (too delicate) plus the HOA doesn’t permit any solar panel exposure. So, if the Gate works as proposed, I could install it instead of solar and hopefully reduce my power bills that way. I hope I don’t need a dozen the Gates as I do E-Mats. That would be expensive. I don’t see a change in my power bill using E-Mats, only audio and video bliss from them.

@elizabeth Those sticks you call them, Hallographs, are made of three woods including ebony, quite expensive.  Try buying some premium quality and then machining them.  I've used Shakti Hallographs since they were invented and so do my friends who are mastering engineers, Robert Pincus, Better Records, Tom Port and Oregonpapa.  Don't knock them until you've tried them.  I have poorly focusing speakers (Legacy Focus which is a misnomer) and after using them, my speakers focus and have an expanded soundstage like a $50,000 pair.  

As to the kitchen magnets, I tried six of them and they are worthless as to affecting my audio and video systems.  On the contrary, the E-Mats, full size, one dozen, greatly improve my sonics.  Just one on the main power box significantly improved the video picture with enhanced color and brightness on my 75" Sony 940D.  My wife does not want me to remove it.

I've always enjoyed reading your posts.  Why knock these great products?

I know for a fact that Hallographs are not cheap to manufacture. The wood costs about $175 to $200, as stated nice pieces of ebony aren’t cheap. They are not made in huge quantities so machining them costs another few $100s. Probably a 3X to 4X mark up. Compare that to Synergistic Research tweaks-there’s a big markup. Also many of their products are worth the money in sound enhancement value. The Hallographs are the most important acoustic tweak I have, more than the SR HFTs and the PPT E-Mats. Without Hallographs, I would need better speakers (better imaging ones).

P.S. Robert doesn't read Audiogon forums, so he doesn't know what Frank does to alter his system sound.

Just one E-Mat on my main power box improved the Sony 4K 75" picture and associated sound components.  My wife said the E-Mat is a keeper in not those words.

Actually, we are leaving our home for a larger home, one with a dedicated listening room with only equipment and seating and another separate room for media storage (plus a 120 sq ft Tuff Shed for at least another 5,000 LPs unsorted and unheard).  I am trying to sell 2,000 NOS 1930's-1940's classical 78s and about 2,000 LPs too.  So, I am limiting my buying to mostly CDs, no more 78s or LPs unless they are really cheap or very desirable and affordable.   

The home also has four times the size kitchen, three times the closet space and bathroom space.  My wife appreciates the purchase.  

I'll need more E-Mats because there is a large 400 amp mains and four subpanels (well, the pool/HVAC aren't getting an E-Mat) and I'm using 3 now.  

The proposed system-wide device could eliminate the need for more E-Mats.

No, I told her and I purchased a dozen of them. She loves the improved bass and dynamics on the TV system. as well as cleaner sound with greater depth of image. We enjoy season opera tickets and an occasional heavy metal recording of hers at home on the big audio system now that it has Omega E-Mats.

My LPs and 78s in my permanent collection are housed in seismically secure custom built wall cabinets mounted to 2X6s on 8" plates, 2X 5/8X drywall and 6" 3000 lb. engineered slab.  The CDs are housed in Can Am steel drawer cabinets.  

I've sold or donated 18,000 records in the past 25 years.  I have a rule, if I don't want to hear a recording more than 3 times per year, out it goes.  

I am not a hoarder.  I have/had local collectors of 1 million to 1.5 million records (Tom Chandler, Music Man Murray, etc.) who hoarded records relative to their stores and then there's the esteemed record producer Tom Null, who also has 1 million recordings but listen to them.  

That should have read, Tom Null does not listen to his recordings, just continues to collect them. He prefers unique and obscure recordings for his collection.  They are not in his home so his home isn't like a hoarders,  Neither was Tom Chandler who had warehouses for his records.  Rod McKuen who lived 2 miles away reportedly had a million or millions of records but had a staff to manage them.  

Then there is the hoarder of records who purchases a million records at a time, the Braziliian  Zero Freitas who reportedly has 8 million records and a full time library cateloging staff.  U.S. record collections end up in Brazil.  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-...

You don't believe people with 1 to 8 million records isn't a hoarder?   Compared to me, they were/are hoarders.  Tom Chandler had all of his records available for sale.  Music Man Murray liked to ask what you would pay for it, then not sell it.  Weird.  Tom Null and Zero Freitas just warehouse them.

Okay elizabeth, I’ll tell that Tim gives discounts on purchases of 18 E-Mats.  You should try some on consignment.  First on your power panels.  Also, if you watch TV, see the difference.

I posted this on another forum.  Elizabeth in private chat is very amiable.  I don't know why she doesn't want to try an E-Mat for free. 

To others: I've tried the thickest, heaviest magnetic kitchen mats and they do zilch, nothing, nada to the sound or picture. Go ahead and experiment as I did. It cost me bupkis to try a half dozen. One E-Mat on the main power panel-wow! Try it, I recommend it (instead of TC at half the price) as it is refundable/returnable.  

It is not transformative in my system with even a dozen mats.  It is comparable to adding two pairs of Hallographs or superior cabling, or even superior speakers.  It is additive to my system's already great sound (well, very good without the mats).  That's without TC, just the mats.  On the high end big screen TV, it is also additive to both picture and sound, not transformative.  Much more enjoyable.  

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Basically, the BBB extorts A ratings from businesses.  Puck had no comments or ratings by customers yet only received a B- BBB rating.  BBB is unreliable. 

I just realized that Audiogon could be doing posters/forum readers a favor by permitting us to block out posters from reading their comments like Yahoo Finance.  I don't need to read trolls comments.  They are annoying and a waste of breath
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I suggest that the Omega E-Mats and my other power filtering considerations such as my Bryston BIT 20 isolation transformer work mostly on the last mile type of power pollution, those emanating from the equipment themselves.  I'm hoping that the GATE is a huge success too.  The dozen Omega E-Mats certainly are for my audio and video systems.  

I put two on the power sub-panel and one on the mains power panel.  That was a really winner in my system.  The others include 3 under the pre-amp/phono pre-amp, 2 under the CD player and 2 above, 2 below the Bryston BIT 20 isolation transformer spread out instead of stacked and one under the turntable (not that much difference-VPI TNT VI).

Enjoyable, yes.  Audiophile quality, no.   There's more than loving and enjoying music to being an audiophile.  There's a lot of music you are missing at the near bottom end (pricewise) of music reproduction equipment, you either don't know it or don't care to know it.  

This forum is not meant for you.  It is irrelevant for you at this time (or maybe forever).