Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat

jmolsberg:
Congratulations on improving your system. For a Christmas present to yourself, I hardily suggest the current Synergistic Research special of - buy a SR Blue wall outlet and get a Blue fuse for free.

Who needs another ugly sweater for Christmas.

David Pritchard

I must admit that I was quite skeptical regarding the Omega mats and cards. How could placing these innocuous looking products near our equipment possible do anything positive to the sound? Just didn't make sense to me. 

I purchased a nano pack and it arrived last Friday. Day one I was very positively impressed with a larger soundstage, blacker background and more air around each note. It created a very musical sound. The next day that effect was greatly diminished and I had almost given up on the mat and cards.....until this morning. Everything I heard on day 1 was not only restored, but restored in spades. I have no idea how these things work but my system has never sounded better. 

I have quite a few upgrades to my system ( Matrix IC's and PC's, new cd transport and major amp upgrades) coming up in the next few weeks that will add very positive benefits to my systems but I can't imagine them providing what these thin mats and cards have......but I'll be thrilled if they do.

 I can understand how many will scoff at such experiences as mine, I've been there myself, but you're only doing yourself a disfavor by not giving them a try.

I haven't even mentioned or tried the TC.....yet.

Thanks to everyone here for sharing your results, without them I would have never given these amazing products a chance. 

Tom

David, and where would you place that fuse? Pre amp or amp? 

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.