Perfect Path "Solutions" (PPS) eMat

Golly, that is an awful room, awful loudspeakers too. It seems that Dr Toole has a lot of knowledge but terrible ears or maybe he does not earn enough in his profession to be able to afford the good stuff and I am not saying that in a bad way, it is true for a lot of us. We do the best that we can. 
We should all be proud of our systems but I do not understand this constantly "tweaking" business. I will go years, sometimes a decade before doing anything and When I make a change it is always a big one like new speakers or amps. I kept the same turntable for 40 years although I had some others over the past decade. My version of a tweak is a new cartridge. I've had the same room for 28 years and it was treated acoustically from the start and has not needed any additions. Now with new speakers coming and new more dense carpet things will change a little so I will have to take new measurements and maybe adjust crossovers. I suppose making digital changes is a sort of tweak but I can see exactly what is going on. There are no illusions here. I am programming the system to do exactly what I want.
I hate to say this but, I think people with less elaborate systems are constantly looking for inexpensive ways to improve their systems and fall pray to marketing hype. That does not explain the Hallograms at $1600. I suppose that is cheap relative  to an $85,000 amplifier.
@audio2design, now you are not only harsh but politically inappropriate.
You don't need to beat people up because the have no idea what they are doing. Just notice the group of comedians lined up against you.
It is the old science vs religion conundrum. So, keep up the good fight. It is a lot of fun watching them squiggle around the facts. They can not get their heads around the fact that some of us do not have to hear an item personally to know it does not work. Guys, it is just knowledge and experience. It is very easy to take advantage of those that have neither.

I missed millercarbon's last comment. We need to get you a soap box millercarbon. Better yet a TV show! You would make a great preacher. That says a lot coming from a atheist:-)

@glupson, Hey, it is time for you to make a comment! 

Einstein, why don’t you take a quick look over in the Crazy, crazy, crazy thread under Audio Clubs. You will find that the predominant theme there is that no one even wants to have a drink with you.

Audio2design is a pleasure to read compared to you. I hope you get that. I wonder what other audio site kicked you out that you stumbled here.

Color me not a fan.

Search my posts over the last 19 years, you will not find me having said a negative thing about anyone before.

oregonpapa-

millercarbon ...

• "Frank, you are too kind. He is the one, probably just about the only one, I would have to disinvite."

Not me. I’d love to have the guy over for a listening session. Within the first few notes, he would have a look on his face as though he had just eaten a crap sandwich. No doubt he would try to save face by finding fault with the system, but once the session was over, he would leave and never be able to forget what he had heard. And the best part? He would try to match the sound somehow but would fail miserably, and would be chasing it for the rest of his arrogant little life. :-)

By the way Miller, I still laugh every time I think about your late-night phone call when your greeting was ... "Frank ... I had to call someone who understands!" That was truly a classic.

Frank.

That's the problem in a nutshell. All these different things we try, everything from components and cables to HFT and PPS, they all improve the sound in ways that we talk about in very similar terms. Imaging, detail, dynamics, extension, etc. But they also improve the sound in ways that are also somehow different. The Gate and Total Contact are very similar in character to each other, and sort of similar yet very different than the improvement brought by anything else.  

There really is no explaining why. We can hardly even describe how. But we sure do know it when we hear it! It's that spine-tingling sensation of a reality. Lately I've been using Townshend Pods and they do get me some of that. But there again the nature of the change is somehow subtly different.

The beauty of it is they all go together. Nothing clashes, everything adds.  

Nor do we have the problem so many others talk about, where they think the system got better but then complain how certain records all their faults are revealed and they are now hard to listen to. Every single one of my records sounds so much better than before it is hard to believe.  

I know it. You know it. I know that you know it. Pity some of these so-called audiophiles can't get that. Question is, the one in particular, are you really so sure he would even know it when he hears it? Would he even hear it? I don't think so.