I’m curious about this product from Perfect Path Technologies and would like to hear from those that have experience with it. I’ve bought and used the Total Contact enhancer and like what it does for my system so I’m interested in hearing how this Omega E mat performs.
I myself have not yet the Omega Matt but have the Total Contact & all I can say is OMG! This treatment has changed my entire system! It taken it to a hole new level, the noise floor is dead quiet, transparency is like I’ve never experienced before! Individual voices and instruments show an extraordinary clarity greater resolving and separation than I’ve ever had! This is no snake oil, this is the real deal and there is no downside to the product! My only wish is that I had the spare change to buy three or four of the Perfect Path Omega Matt’s
And there’s another rave review from a "private" reviewer. To the naysayers ... how much money did the above poster get to make his claim? Is he a snake-oil salesman? A shill? A con man? Did he get the product for free? Surly, there is something nefarious going on here, right????
ajourney ...
Thanks for the nice words. Tim deserves every bit of the success he’s having with his products. As you can clearly see from your experience, there was no hyping going on. Glad you’re enjoying the TC. The Omega E Mat not only works well with the TC product, but combined together, they will bring an audio system to the point of suspending disbelief.
PS: You only "think" the noise floor is "dead quiet." Wait until you get the Omega E Mats. :-)
I usually check out any recommended recordings on Spotify before I consider buying them. Many of these recommendations occur here from A'gon members. While some are really good, its always surprising how many "audiophiles" prefer music that sounds like its coming from inside a cave. I guess if the professional reviewers recommend something it must be good. :-)
I myself have not yet the Omega Matt but have the Total Contact & all I can say is OMG! This treatment has changed my entire system! It taken it to a hole new level, the noise floor is dead quiet, transparency is like I’ve never experienced before! Individual voices and instruments show an extraordinary clarity greater resolving and separation than I’ve ever had! This is no snake oil, this is the real deal and there is no downside to the product! My only wish is that I had the spare change to buy three or four of the Perfect Path Omega Matt’s
Many reviewers select excellent music for comparison, well recorded acoustical music, jazz and orchestral and they list their choices. However, an equal number of reviewers use the "crap" recordings as Frank says that I hear at audio shows. Patricia Barber, Diana Krall, et. al. are not recordings I want to use to base my audio opinion on and I don't want reviewers to use them either. I'm sure there are some posters who like that type of recorded music but they shouldn't be using it to make definitive decisions concerning audio equipment.
oregonpapa The magazines very seldom have anything negative to say about any product reviewed. The rave reviews go to the manufacturers who pay for ads in the magazine.
>>>>Huh? There are perfectly good reasons why the major magazines generally won’t post negative reviews. Please give me a break. It has nothing to do with honesty. That’s an old wives tale.
Another thing to be aware of is the music the "professional" reviewers use to evaluate the equipment being tested. If you check their music out on a source such as Spotify, so much of it is drenched in artificial digital reverb. Its crap. It leaves you wondering how a reviewer can hear what the equipment really sounds like.
>>>>What? Never heard of that before. Got any examples? It doesn’t make sense. And if it doesn’t make sense it’s not true. It certainly does not (rpt not) have anything to do with honestly, anyway.
As far as honesty is concerned, I'll take the word of the folks who have taken the time to post feedback on the Perfect Path ad site over that of a "professional" magazine reviewer any day.
The magazines very seldom have anything negative to say about any product reviewed. The rave reviews go to the manufacturers who pay for ads in the magazine.
Another thing to be aware of is the music the "professional" reviewers use to evaluate the equipment being tested. If you check their music out on a source such as Spotify, so much of it is drenched in artificial digital reverb. Its crap. It leaves you wondering how a reviewer can hear what the equipment really sounds like.
Most of my evaluations are the results of listening to recordings (CD's) burned directly from master tapes, or recordings that have natural sound with little or no processing. It makes a big difference.
oregonpapa (Frank) - Thanks for the cordial response. I don’t think receiving a product for free obligates the receiver to post a favorable review but if the person wants to establish a relationship with the manufacturer and keep the freebies coming they would naturally be inclined to give a very positive review. I would hope a person wouldn’t be dishonest just to get free product but full disclosure allows a reader to make their own judgments.
We see this all the time with "professional" reviewers. They review the same companies over and over consistently spewing-out positive reviews. Toss-in the "reviewers discount" they usually get, the free meals at shows, the in-home delivery/setup/consultation and you’ve got to wonder if the relationship is a little too cozy.
A big reason I like reading "non-professional" reviews is because you assume the person actually bought the product and is not being "paid" in anyway for their time or effort to write the review. This is especially true when a money back guarantee is involved - they have decided it truly was worth investing their own money and didn’t return it.
As to my positive comments on products, I can assure you I’ve paid for all of them except for the Burson Audio cables I reviewed which I now agree Audiocircle correctly nixed.
”Painting” TC on the mats? And just about every other piece in your components and electrical panel ?
No UL listing.
Every proponent wants you to except their hearing and opinion as unquestionably honest and Oh so right.
Granted, I have lumped TC and Mats together; So have the proponents.
First it was a tweak, then equal to a component, then “dubbed” an accessory; now back to a tweak.
Are you guys Sure now? What is it?
First, it was to be placed under your component. Maybe magnetically to the bottom of the component. Now on your electrical panel. Seems to benefit “Digital gear” the most.
I am am now waiting for the UL listing and 2-3 reviews in the “rags” by known reviewers.
david_ten, I will be using the Omega E Mat not on top of the Synergistic Research Tranquility base but on top of the component such as the Pass Lab amp.
I agree with Frank that the power panel is where I would start first. This will have a positive effect on all your components, rather than targeting just one. I would then put one under whichever source component(s) you use the most. If, like me, you listen to CDs, and have a separate transport & DAC, I would put one under the transport first, and then the DAC.
I see a 49 post thread on the E mat with content questioning intensive on forum advertising disappear overnight and suddenly my BS detectors start twitching
I payed the full amount for the Omega E mats that will arrive Friday. My amplifiers, SACD players, DAC, and Oppo 203 Blue Ray Player are all on Synergistic Research Tranquility Bases. I am looking forward to hearing if this new product will improve my system. They are sold with a 30 day return policy so the cost to try is only postage money. The first one will go inside the circuit breaker box, and the second will initially go on the Pass Lab INT- 60 amplifier.
Frank, Are you saying that you have paid full tote for all the "tweaks" you have personally promoted, (red, black, blue) fuses, (TC) coagulating fluid, black and blue plugs, now an Omega E mat, of which I have not found any description or image.
Your system must be very bad, or you live under high voltage transmission lines, or perhaps next to a nuclear power plant. With every tweak, your sound floor goes further down, and verified by 'ole mate "Robert". Your sound floor must be way down in the earth where it's pitch black by now. Really? The credibility is starting to stretch a bit thin...
If a manufacturer were to send a product "free," or at a reduced cost, would that obligate the "tester" to post a positive review? The suspicion that it does is the only reason I can think of for anyone asking the question you did. Its a valid point.
Another thought ... Nothing is free. Some price must be paid. The same question was addressed to me in the TC thread. My point there was, hey ...if you think that the time spent testing three incarnations of the product, spending countless hours waiting for a break-in to occur, taking copious notes, and then writing a review that goes on for paragraphs isn't payment, then I'd have to ask what you do for a living. Is your time and labor worth nothing?
And by the way, questioning the payment thing, or even a discount in return for a favorable review, is in a way suggesting that the "tester" is being dishonest. In my case, if anything I reviewed turned out to be bunk, I'd either say so, or I wouldn't say anything at all.
Also, in reading the last paragraph in your above post, you say the following:
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I have Tranquility Bases under all my equipment. They are highly effective for a number of reasons but they don't use magnets in any way."
I have to ask ... were you paid for that review? Did you get the Tranquility Bases at a discount? Did you get them for free? What motivated your positive review?
Not dissing you in any way. Just trying to spread a little light on the subject.
Hi all - I see that the Omega E mat thread has had a "reset". Please don't go berserk but I think its only fair to the reader if you tell us whether or not you actually purchased the mat at full price. If you were sent mat(s) free of charge or at a reduced rate with no expectation of them being returned that should be disclosed. For instance, tommylion the 4 mats you discuss you paid $2,400 for and you are not returning them?
About a year ago, Audiocircle had a similar issue come up. Burson Audio was sending people cables free of charge with no expectation they be returned. A number of favorable reviews were published which ended-up being taken down because the board facilitator believed it was a form of payment to the people who wrote the reviews.
t_ramey - I have Tranquility Bases under all my equipment. They are highly effective for a number of reasons but they don't use magnets in any way. Check-out my system page.
Great question ronrags. If I was to get just one mat where would the most benefit come from? I have everything in my system on star sound platforms so I like that the Omega mat is magnetic so if it’s not possible to put on top of a component with tubes it could possibly go underneath. I’m guessing either my DAC or power conditioner that has everything plugged into it would be a good spot. But the panel makes sense too...
I’ll try to further clarify my impressions of the the Omega mats in my system:
They certainly bring a substantial increase in resolution, transparency and clarity. What makes them so remarkable, though, is that this doesn't come at the expense of the life, energy and vitality of the music. Often, it seems, one of these sets of attributes is traded off for the other. If you've been in this hobby for a while, you've probably heard a system that has plenty of resolution, transparency and clarity, but is lacking in life, energy and vitality (or maybe vice versa). Having both at the same time, which, IMO, is the ultimate goal, can be quite elusive.
The addition of the Omega mats has greatly enhanced my system's ability to play music with both sets of attributes.
I have one Mat on top of my resolution audio opus21 CD player and it has dropped the noise floor dramatically while making the music more dramatic, impactful and engaging throughout the frequency spectrum. The soundstage is the first thing I immediately noticed after it was installed. The dynamics etc... came one day after it was installed. I will not be removing it.
I thought that it sounded so good that I ordered a second one for my office system dac.
Thanks for the replies. I’m down to my last little bit of TC and I haven’t done everything I wanted to yet with it so I’m contemplating ordering another tube before trying the mat.
This mat reminds me of the Tranqulilty base from SR. Wonder if anybody has any experience with that. The Omega E is much more affordable though.
I now have 4 Omegas in my system, that has also been extensively treated with TC. I have one on my main power panel, and one each under my CD Transport, DAC & Amp. It's hard to describe the extensive positive impact they have had. I think the best way to say it is, while listening, I frequently find myself thinking (or even exclaiming out loud); “That sounds so real!” This happens with a wide variety of instruments & vocals, across a wide variety of recordings and musical genres.
The increase in engagement with, and enjoyment of, the music has brought many a smile to my face 😁
I have ordered two Omega E Mats. My systems are already extensively treated with Total Contact- circuit breaker box, power cords, interconnects, wall outlet connections, and inside most components.
This will be a fun and educational project. They come with a 30 day trial so there is ample time to get a feel for how they affect an already tuned system.
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