Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat

yoby

I very carefully placed Omega E-Cards in certain locations inside the components, like on top of transformers and such. This is easy in my system as I leave the lids off of the components.

Then I got the bright idea of putting E-Cards inside of the wall outlets.

I removed the wall plates and found that there was just enough room to slide the cards in on both sides of both outlets. They just barely fit on the outside of the outlet’s internal box.

Things are still "charging up" but my initial reaction is very positive. The noise floor continues to drop, revealing more infinitesimal details that were not evident before. Bass control is much better too.

I’ve spent the entire morning listening to both female and male vocal recordings that I know very well. Voice inflections are improved, and the personality of the singers shine through even more than before. Backup singers and accompanying musicians are more clearly delenated too ... and I thought I had that in spades before the E-Card experiment. Who knew? *lol*

By the way, both of these outlets were treated with Total Contact a couple of months ago. So the E-Cards are a further improvement over the TC.

My friend Robert is coming over tonight for a listening session. I didn’t tell him about the placement of the E-Cards. He has a good ear and knows my system very well. We’ll see if he detects the improvements I’m hearing.

Stay tuned ...

Frank

Keep letting us readers know about the changes in the sound and where you end up placing the E-Cards for maximum effect.  I've only put the PPTC on all my contacts and need to repast several ones I have taken in and out of the system in the past couple months.  Will be getting 1 E-Mat to put in the breaker box and about 10-12 E-Cards to do most of the system and things like Core Power Tech 150's, along with the inside of cabinets on my 2 cabinets per side speakers.  Through in 'The Gate' and I will enjoy my system to the fullest for as many days as I have left on this earth.  Could be a lot.  My dad died about 4 years ago at 106.

@dorkwad 

Wow 106 that is great for him and hopefully for you too. I spoke to Tim over the holiday weekend and ordered  a pack of E-cards. I see they are expected to come tomorrow but I am not sure yet how soon I will put them in my system. I just moved to Tampa, from cold, windy and cloudy chicagoland, a few months ago and I had to reapply the PP TC enhancer to my entire system. When I first got here I connected my system with the original TC on all my connections but the sound after a few weeks never got anywhere  close to how it had sounded before the move. Upon stripping off the old TC, from the  now broken connections, with alcohol, and reapplying new TC the system made a big jump in sound quality very quickly. I am currently about 41 days out from the reapplication of the TC and might wait until I sense the 8 week jump in sound quality has been realised before I place the e-cards in. Tim said the e-cards pretty much their full potential about 3 weeks after placement.

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

I just want to share some of the spots that I've used TC, though most are a rehash of what others have suggested, done already, or contemplated... 

I started with the breaker box.  First was breakers to bus and wire-ends to breakers + neutral/ground wire ends.  Also disassembled ground to copper piping connection, Emory cloth cleaned the connectors and the piping, TC'd and reconnected.  Nice...  
Outlets as part of system were next.  However, I found some benefits from doing outlets and plugs not on the system.  Not huge gains, but every little bit...  I figured (maybe faulty logic?) that doing this on outlets/equip that is notoriously noisy (microwave, fridge, computers, etc...) might limit some of that noise or junk put back onto the lines.
Interconnects, speaker cables, binding posts, and plug-ends were next.  very nice gains.  I took suggestions from DavidPritchard (sp?), GK, and oregonpapa by opening the connector ends of my interconnects and pasted the soldered connection points - that worked really well!  Breathed new life into ICs that I had placed on the shelf as potential sale/trade-in's.   Also, I have made numerous cords, so I removed the plug & IEC ends, trimmed & restripped wires, applied TC, applied a crimp fitting, TC'd that, TC'd the connection points on the inside of the connectors, and re-terminated.  Another WOW! 

Opening the lids on my amp, pre, and conditioner yielded great results as well.  I cannot believe how cheap so many of the crimp connectors are/were in there.  Regardless, I purchased some small brushes from Amazon for painting tiny designs on finger/toe-nails so that I could hit only the very specific spots I wanted and not get any where I did not.  Work like a charm.  I may trim the bristle length to firm them up.  I made sure to do all power/crimp connectors, I pasted not just internal fuses, but the compression tabs to hold the fuse - all the way down to the board and over the solder point.  Ribbon cable ends and others were also done.  Very happy!
I did similar with the cable box, connectors, and such for the television, Roku, etc... 

I have done the binding posts on my speakers, the connection points to the drivers, and am in the process of doing the crossovers.  I realized that I did not remove the terminations on my speaker cables and do that yet...on the list. 

Those of you that have TC and think you've hit all you can - there is likely more possible...  I have not tried the wall-plates for outlets or on the external plug shells, yet...my tube gear is tucked-away for the moment, so none there, yet. 

All-in-all, I am quite pleased with TC (and the mats/cards).  I really like how the clarity improves, but the tonality (I think that's the right term) doesn't shift...  Using Walker SST Extreme and similar in the past lent a 'sheen' or 'sparkle' almost immediately, but seemed to go downhill from there.  I've only been applying TC for about 9-months or so and have not noticed any degradation of SQ.  Hope this helps some...and please share other 'discovered' locations for TC, cards, and mats.  Oregonpapa, thanks for the card on the outlet box suggestion...I've not tried that, yet,  but I have used velcro wire-ties to wrap cards around power-plug-bodies...not bad at all  ;)  Also, I placed cards in between the 4 binding posts on each of my speakers since I haven't re-popped the drivers out to TC the crossovers.  I'll move them to the crossovers at that point.
Happy Friday-Eve to all!Doug