Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat

@fazee - just based on how speakers, phono cartridges and hard drives (many music servers have hard drives) work I would suggest keeping a magnet away from them. Maybe Perfect Path Tech doesn’t think its a problem though.

@fazee yes the smaller one should be fine. The magnetic strength I am pretty sure  will not affect a hard drive. I have had a full mat on my Mac Mini, small card on my I Phone for weeks. no problem at all.

Listening now--was away from home for three days and am enjoying my return to music more than ever since placing an E Mat under my Wadia player, a large unit that also contains a pre-amp. Two E Mats could fit under this player, which is now 3 inches off the granite deck because it sits on vibration damping footers.  Question:  Does the E Mat exert its effect pretty much straight up and down, or is there also a horizontal field of effect that is treating the entire 16" X 16" unit? Also, how does a side-by-side placement compare to a stacked placement under a component?  
    

jafreeman ...

I've tried stacking three mats under each component. The effects are cumulative. The noise floor drops significantly with each mat. Is there a limit where the SQ diminishes? Who knows? If so, I haven't found that limit yet. 

I haven't tried placing them side by side. 

I found that having the magnetic side facing up toward the bottom of the component gives a slight improvement in SQ. 

The above comments refer to my system only. I suspect that Steve Fleischer is doing some experimenting. Maybe he can add to this. 

The clarity brought about by these mats is astounding.

Frank 

I have not experimented with the E Mat magnetic side down, away from a component or panel breaker box.

However, I can confirm that I tried stacking one pair of E Mats under equipment and in the panel breaker boxes only (I couldn’t use the E Mat under or above my mono block amps). There was a subtle but noticeable improvement stacking them under my thin bottomed preamp/phono stage more so than doubling at the breaker box panel, the isolation transformer or the CD player. Doubling E Mats improved the sound in all locations though.

I am witholding full comment overall until I have a few days trial with the E Mats because I don’t want to sell them short. The 24 hour improvement was significant. The 1 hour improvement was very important because initially, despite the previously noted improvements in resolution, transient response, frequency extension, dynamics and pacing, there was a glary, bright upper mid-range and a subdued, reticent sounding lower mid-range when initially installed at six locations. I found a simple solution to eliminate the bright/subdued mid-range problem by moving my SR HFT 2.0 side wall speaker locations down 1/4", which brought superb balance back (down to warm, up to brighten).

Now, as I indicated, I need to give the E-Mats time because it is usually the mid-range that adjusts last and I may have to restore the SR HFT 2.0s back to the initial pre-E Mat installed positions (same with breaking in new cabling).