Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’


Having been a music lover and audio enthusiast for more decades than I care to admit to I’ve had the privilege of owning some tremendous components over those years and thought I had attained a level of musical enjoyment that would be difficult to improve upon without spending more money than I could afford. Then along came The Gate to turn my audio conceptions on end. 

While I was quite skeptical of all of the positive proclamations regarding the Perfect Path mats, cards and contact enhancer ( how could they possibly bring about such sonic improvements?) I took the plunge and purchased a nano bundle to see what the hubbub was all about. Much to my surprise they not only brought about improvements to my systems’ ability to recreate a more musical sound but did so in spades. 

When Tim of Perfect Path Technologies asked if I wanted to try his new product, The Gate, I jumped at the chance thinking it would be a nice addition to what the other products provided. I wasn’t prepared for the quantum leap The Gate brought to my music listening pleasure. As much as the other products brought about a much lower noise floor, greater detail and delicacy, improved dynamics, richer tone and more realism The Gate does so in magnitudes difficult to describe. The best way I can describe its affect is unreal purity leading the most realistic musical sound I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing.....outside of a live performance obviously. It has me listening to all of my CD’s as if for the first time again.

I have no idea how The Gate actually works or what it does I just know it’s the most dramatic tweak to my system I’ve ever experienced and I wouldn’t think of being without it. As to how it’s implemented, it’s installed in the electrical panel with one lead connected to the common buss and the other to a breaker ( preferably 220). Hope I got the terminology correct.....I’m far from being an electrician!

At $4,999.00 it’s not cheap but worth every penny to me as I’ve spent more on components with less sonic improvement. 

Lastly, I realize some will scoff at something they can’t understand and I get not understanding it as I don’t, but I would hope people could keep their skepticism healthy and civil. I am not here to promote or sell, nor do I have any affiliation with PPT. I am only sharing something that I’ve found to be transforming in my system. Sorry for the lengthy introduction.
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Mahgister thanks for you recommendations and suggestions. Since it’s so reasonable it would be good to try. So again you confirm that this sort of device is best used only on the mains.
NOT on dac, amplifier or cd player...It will compress the sound....You want a better timbre without compression... 😊

Anywhere else, for example behind the speakers near the cable connectors...

But to begin with try the power conditioner....Or the main electrical box in the room or house or the computer main router....

Good luck and report in my thread:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/miracles-in-audio-by-luck-by-good-choices-by-design-or-by-tweaking


I have many PPT mats in use in my system. They are their best and most active and effective when they are first placed on a large magnet or a dead large speaker. Not sure why this is the case..you can also " precharge " on a electrical panel. 

I have never encountered a negative reaction with the mats on equipment..except maybe on a cd player and only when I stacked 2 or more mats. I firmly believe the negative is derived from the added mass damping and not from the materials used in the construction of the mat. Fine line between no damping and to much before it harms dynamic structures. Tom
What is The Gate exactly? A noise filter?

Since the company is no longer, I can't find out any information. Thanks.
What is The Gate exactly? A noise filter?

Since the company is no longer, I can't find out any information. Thanks.

I am not exactly sure what's the tech but can tell you that it lowers the noise floor to vanishingly low levels. Even my Panasonic Plasma pops out with more contrast and clarity. After the result of one in the main panel, I bought another one for the secondary panel but for most of us just one at the main panel was good enough and did most of the goodness. I also have 2 emats on the panels as well.
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What is The Gate exactly? A noise filter?
No, it is not a filter. What it is "exactly" is very hard to say. What I can say for sure is it is not a filter. In the normal sense of the word, a filter is a screen of some kind that allows to pass more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. If that sounds obvious well, you’re the one who wants to know exactly what it is. Sometimes all we can do is tell you exactly what it is not. It is not a filter. Nothing goes through it.

It does however seem to behave as if it were a filter. It sure sounds like the power is hugely cleaner. If you have ever listened late at night and loved the sound, well this is like that only about a hundred times better.

Everyone wants to know exactly what is going on. No matter how many times or how clearly it is stated we don’t know- and wouldn’t tell you if we did! Only thing more frustrating than that is when I DO tell people as best I can what I THINK is going on, nobody cares. So I am about THIS CLOSE to telling you all to STUFF IT!

ONE LAST TIME!

The signal is not what we think it is. The signal is not electrons traveling down wires like water in a pipe. Yes this does happen to some degree but nowhere near enough to account for what we hear. The vast majority of the signal is the fluctuating electromagnetic field created by and surrounding these same electrons.

Because the signal is a field emanating from and around electrons in a conductor, and not merely within the conductor itself (or along its "skin", or any of that malarkey), then all kinds of things placed within this field are going to affect the signal. Study physics, the field radiates out to infinity. I seriously hope you are paying attention, bookmarking, studying, because seriously getting tired having to explain this. Okay not explaining, actually like that part. It’s the nobody getting it part that’s getting old. See my post from April last year. One full year explaining I think is quite enough, and we are just about there.

Now, we all know about all kinds of cool new materials that have fascinating properties like superconducting at room temp. Most of the attention is focused on computing and things where micro-precision is required and so a lot of this research is still in the lab. But the same principle can be used in a gross general application like improving signal transmission in wires. Hello? Beuller! Right.

So you take some of these incredible materials, put them near a wire, the fields interact, and the transmission integrity of whatever is in the wire improves dramatically.

This is exactly how this stuff works. Near as I can tell anyway. This is why it works in an electrical panel. And I am not gonna tell you more except to brag and say I figured a lot of this out all on my own right from the beginning even before getting one and using it. Simply knowing it goes in the panel ought to be enough for you to figure out what is going on. It was for me. Sorry if you’re not up to it. I am. Deal with it.

All this stuff is more or less the same too. This is why Total Contact works even when painted on the outside of caps and transformers and wires. It is much more than a nano-arc reducing contact enhancer. Read this post over and over again until it sinks in!

This is how eMats and eCards work. This is why the empty suit moron is such an unspeakable moron he can’t understand its nothing to do with shape or manufacture or magnets or any of that. The freaking label- ITS NOT THE LABEL!!! And yes some of it we call "filters". This is totally to do with the inability of people to get their mind around what I’m saying. You ask, we explain, yet still you do not understand. So we like space aliens try to put it in terms your limited intelligence can comprehend. Like go watch Star Trek until you figure it out! https://youtu.be/9463hBWy0ig?t=20

This is why Mats work on the outside of speakers. Get it? This is why they work under and over and near all kinds of components. Get it? This is why it works even in a panel way out in the garage. The signal isn’t in the wire, and it is not just in your house or your system either. The signal is a fluctuating field that goes out in all directions and it extends - you can look this up in the physics books - to infinity. And beyond, as Buzz Lightyear would say.

Get it? Got it? No? Too bad. Done anyway.

Almost. One more thing. Just get one. Get a Gate from Tom, if you can. Or whatever else you can. Just do it. Read what Frank says. Read what I say. We are not kidding. Just do it.
It is easy to verify that a field around the amplifier interact with all the pieces in the amplifier...

Take a piece of shungite put it on the amplifier and you will hear a compressed sound, at best more dense sound...

Take a piece of quartz put it at the same place you will hear a more decompressed sound at worst harsher...

One of my series of experiments begins with that....

You can make the same experience with cables...

I tried 30 kind of rocks with varied results always different and very specific....

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« A piece of rock is not a piece of rock»-Groucho Marx

«Do you listen to music or to rocks?»-my wife

«Bread and rocks are only musical sounds, it is the reason why Christ transformed them in one another»-Anonymus Smith

«Do you know that you have some rock in your ear?»- Unknown encyclopedia

«Rock walk eat and sleep but too slowly to be seen by the eye»- Quantum physicist after a LSD trip

«I like all rock except rock’nroll»- Harpo Marx

« What is the soul of our clock? No more a spring but a singing rock» - A swiss salesman

«The only way to touch time itself is to caress a rock born many billions years ago»- Any geologist speaking

« Touching rock unbeknownst to you is caressing remnant of stars»- a Cosmologist

«My prefered rock is a crystal of water, his hexagonal shape make me orgasm»-A mathematician thinking about all the primes congruences modulo six.
"This is how eMats and eCards work."
We are just waiting for revelation of the word "this".
mahgister and millercarbon make some good points. Any material in close proximity to the signal will change the sound for better or worse. Identical electronics with cases made of different materials will sound different. Different mats, feet, platforms and furniture materials will change the sound. One needs to experiment with this in order to understand what materials work best.
Einstein ain’t what he used to be. 🚬🥸
Einstein is exactly what he used to be. A golden ear audiophile who can hear the difference when suspending his cables with rubber bands but not, according to himself, the difference when tube rolling in his tube integrated.  How is this even possible?




Here's something that I don't see addressed nearly frequently enough.

The optimal humidity level in the listening room.  The humidity % is evidently going to affect all the components, large and small, in the system, as well as the air through which the sound waves are transmitted before they reach your ears.
Interesting.... I bet we must try to keep our room to at most 50 %....Mine is....
I love it when people lacking much more than a basic understand of electricity of physics speak so confidently about electricity (or physics).  I reminds me of this meme:

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/let-me-interrupt-your-expertise...

Electro - MAGNETIC.  Super simple here, but voltage sets up an electrical (electrostatic) field, causes carriers to move, moving carriers generate a magnetic field, . While the field is predominantly outside the charge carrier (wire), the wire heavily impacts the charge carriers and hence the magnetic field, and its effect dominates at low frequencies (in most cases). While the field theoretically goes on forever, the field strength is far far higher between the conductors and close to them. Hence things that are between the conductors and really close to them have an effect, things farther away very very quickly stop having any effect.


When you take a lack of understanding of electricity and couple it with a product of unknown functionality, you end up with all kinds of creative explanations, but at the end of the day, you have resistors, capacitors, inductors, and throw in some active circuits.  Sure there are memristors, but those are contentious already and not applicable. What I am saying is what appears are magic to some, could be but simple circuitry to others, and it probably wouldn't take long with some basic circuitry to get a pretty clear idea of what it does (or does not do).
The optimal humidity level in the listening room. The humidity % is evidently going to affect all the components, large and small, in the system, as well as the air through which the sound waves are transmitted before they reach your ears.

How important this is would be a factor of room size and what your settling time is for higher frequencies. Not sure I would want to use low humidity to address slap-echo though.  If you have a larger room, it could definitely make a measurable difference.  It also makes a difference in what you hear in a live performance especially in a large venue non-amplified like the symphony.

@mahgister Your irony detector is malfunctioning.
Absolutely not, i know first hand that you like sarcasm about any "tweak"...

But sometimes your sarcasm propose an involuntary evident truth...
Your sarcasm machine was under performing.... 

Humidity is not a good thing for any electronic device.... This is common sense...I keep my audio room to 50 %...

Try common sense +sarcasm....

And use other qualification than "thin foil hat"....Try be be an adult....
Sound waves travel slower thru more humid or dense air to some of you and travel faster thru dry and hot air again for some of you. Tom
And for the rest of us that live in a place where normal rules of physics apply, the sound will travel faster when it is more humid.
Electronics components work better and more safely at constant humidity level and that was the point.....

Twoleftears wanted to mock people like usual and not knowing that he speak out of his 2 left brain about silly audiophile  people measuring humidity...

The speed of sound will not be a determinant factor between 40 and 75%....in an audible way....

This point was made by me for the best conservation of electronic pieces....Stay calm....

My mistake got my hot and humid reversed..the more dense the air the higher the speed. Tom