New Omega E Mat from Perfect Path Technologies


Many of you own or have read of the highly-regarded PPT Omega E Mat, one of Tim Mrock’s revolutionary signal-enhancing accessories. Just prior to his untimely passing, Tim had finished developing a new generation of his Omega mat, soon to be available. Krissy Mrock has asked a few of us to introduce this new mat, here given the working title of The Double Omega.

In distinguishing the Double Omega, we know the original Omega, herein called the single, as a 7.5” by 10”, rather heavy and somewhat pliable mat, a bit more than 1/8” thick and with a vinyl-like feel. One face is glossy white, displaying the PPT logo and Omega name, while the other is black, smooth and magnetized. Sandwiched between these faces is the active material that causes components to reject the EMI that saturates everything in our surroundings. The Double Omega is much the same, with one important difference: the magnetized face has the finely-textured feel of around, say, 220-grit sandpaper. This texture, it is presumed, comprises yet a second active layer of EMI rejection. Presumed—because working details of the Double Omega are not well understood—better yet to know how to apply it.

With the understanding that the single Omega E mats generate field effects from both faces, mats have typically been placed under and over components and vertically over circuit breakers. How you apply the Double Omega will depend on best use and experimentation. In my case, I have removed two single mats, lying side-by-side, from the top of my large Wadia CDP and have replaced those with two Double Omegas. The Wadia is a one-box player that contains a pre-amp, so I wanted that second, strong field effect exerting downward as well as upward. I also have several singles placed underneath, just as before. Going straight to amps, this player is my only source, so I want it fully protected from EMI. Your priorities will differ.

As of this writing, I am only thirty-hours in on placing these Double Omegas, and I can already tell you they are powerful in their prevention of EMI within my digital source. Yet another veil has been lifted—all instruments and voices are even more sorted out in the aural space with new information heard within that space. There is much more decay heard against a new silence behind and between the musicians. I am already so pleased and excited about what the Double Omega E mats are doing. As Krissy told me, Tim was really stoked to have these new mats available. Rather than wait for the the fourteen-day window of improvement, I want to get this intro out so others can relay their experiences sooner.


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These guys latch onto me like some kind of wolverine from the Skeptics Society or the subcommittee on controversial audiophile concepts of AES. What did I ever do to them? I’m just trying to raise global consciousness. Is that a crime?
How about starting your own thread? This one is about the Omega + Mats. Thanks ...
Pretty sure this has now devolved into "who has the biggest d#$k"
To reinforce Frank’s post.

This thread is for discussion of the Omega Plus mats.

NOT The Gate.
NOT mu metals.
NOT EMI/RFI shield or absorbing sheets.
NOT brow beating and chest thumping.
NOT empty convuluted posts containing no substance or relevance to Omega Plus mats at all.

Yes this is a free forum but can we please get back on topic.
Thanks.

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We are talking about the Omega mats. GK got off on a tangent about it being mumetal, which highly unlikely that it is.

See GK, that time you came back with an ad-hom in a little over 15 minutes. That’s the spirit. It’s almost believable when you do that. Great show old chap!

OregonPapa, putting my engineering hat on, as GK did for a few seconds, while I don’t see much value in the Omega mat as used, products with likely the same function, i.e. EMI absorption, or absorption with a reflection layer do have value inside equipment. They are regularly used for this. They are used to reduce the emissions from microprocessors into sensitive equipment as GK stated. They usually are not used for shielding sensitive analog as custom metal shields are used for that. They are placed around ribbon cables carrying high speed signals to be reduce EMI both inside and outside the enclosure. They are used over specific traces on PCBs to reduce EMI in the same way. They are used with RF receivers to control reflections and reduce background noise.


Mumetal like steel and other magnetic materials must be used very carefully near transformers. While it has shielding properties, it also becomes part of the magnetic circuit of those components, plus magnetic EMI components. For something like a power transformer, that could be beneficial. For an output transformer that is carefully designed, that is bad.


Uberwalz, given you don’t know how Omega mats work, and don’t seem to have any interest in finding out, what exactly are you planning to discuss? One post of I tried it and it works seems to be enough? If you knew how they work, then you would have a much better chance of applying them to their maximum effectiveness instead of just guessing.

I apologize for GK’s lack of self reflection. One would think his 18,500+ posts, many irrelevant to the conversation would give him pause that he is attracted to other posters, not the other way around. Nothing I can do about that unfortunately.
Obviously atdavid is in need of a check up from the neck up. I’ve already opined what I think the mat is. I never said I thought the mat was mu metal. Poor reading comprehension on atdavid’s part. Or just a lie. It wouldn’t be his first lie. It was actually atdavid who went off on a wild goose chase with his mu metal baloney. I tend to think he’s probably just some high school graduate, at best, who learned how to cut and paste from Wikipedia.