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Eons. Then again you are pretty heavily negatively charged.

lemonhaze ...

• "process of elimination I have to assume its the TC responsible or out of date TC"

The TC was an interesting product. Upon application, it seemed to go through phases. For example, I put a ton of the stuff into my power conditioner. I used almost an entire tube to do the job. I even did the entire inside of the lid. The result? I entirely lost the mid-bass. I called Tim at the time and told him about it. He said just wait and let it cure. Well, it was pretty bad for about three weeks, at which time, everything came back into focus and was better than ever. I’ve described the whole scenario in one of the TC threads. At no time did I ever detect a "brash, unlistenable upper mid-range" as you suggest. I’m at a loss in trying to figure out what happened in your case ... unless you didn’t leave the TC on long enough to allow it to cure.

I’m curious ... was the TC in your tube hard (set up)? Or, did it come out a silver color instead of the normal dark grey color?

So you have eight mats and are only using three? Try taking the one out from under the computer, and get some clear packing tape, and tape two mats onto the back of each speaker right in line with the drivers. See what that does, if anything. Mats taped to the speakers have done good things for me.

Frank

jetter ...

• Regarding Frank, I know he is and always will be a dyed-in-the-wool salesperson, just as I am and have been a Certified Public Accountant for ions. He sells, I ask questions, it’s in our blood.

I couldn’t have said it any better myself, jetter. :-)

Do you remember the comments I’ve made in the past on the basic personality types? That is definitely in play here, for sure.

Frank

willgolf ...

• Question - Do the PPT Emats lose their potency or go bad over time?

I was one of the first to get them, and I have a ton of them. They seem to still be doing the job for me. At this point, I have seventeen PPT E-Plus Mats covering my floor-standing speakers. I wouldn't think of taking them off. Yes, they look really weird, but then, I don't look at the speakers, I listen to them. Putting the mats on the speakers really improved the SQ by a large margin. I know others did the same to perhaps a lesser degree and reported good results from doing so. 

Frank

I love those things! When you told me about the speakers I thought that was nuts. They would have to work on the drivers, the magnet or something like that, and from so far away? But it worked. Just one. Ugly as hell though so....

Removed the drivers, cut some Mats up into strips, zip tied them along side the wires and around the driver magnets. Improvement? My wife who hardly pays any attention asked what made it sound so good? She doesn’t know one word of audiophile lingo but she knows when it sounds more like real natural music.

Then you told me about speaker cables. So I laid one Mat on each speaker cable. Sure enough. Now I know to cut em up, made em into tubes, they work so good that way!

I’m sure you remember Frank, this is for the others. Recently what with all the moving around for Chuxpona we wound up with some of these laying around and sometimes like last night I will put another one or two back on a wire somewhere. The tubes I made are different sizes so depending on what we are talking about could be anywhere from 1/3 of a Mat to 1/6 or sometimes even less. Even this small amount, still very easy to hear. To answer the question then no, it does not go bad over time.