I’m curious about this product from Perfect Path Technologies and would like to hear from those that have experience with it. I’ve bought and used the Total Contact enhancer and like what it does for my system so I’m interested in hearing how this Omega E mat performs.
Tom At least I would agree your suggestions could hold some water(sic!) until proven otherwise. But I do also agree that if these mats do have this type of effect on other electronic devices than hifi then Tim should be hammering on every door of every utility company in the world right now!
In the case of a heating element inside a wet tank there maybe a change in the conductive material when the applied voltage is preconditioned in some way. This preconditioning may also alter the chemical build up of deposits on the heating element that may affect the efficiency of the element and its heat transfer to the water held in the tank. The same may be true of the bimetal reaction of the thermo sensor/coupler that may alter its reference calibration range. There may be more examples of such change in other devices..The fact that these examples are being reported should not be quickly dismissed. It's always good to know more today than yesterday..even the search may teach us more. Tom
How would you explain the necessity of turning the refrigerator temperature up three different times to keep it from freezing the vegetables in the vegetable crisper, which is the bottom drawer in the fridge?
Also, how would you explain that what used to take two minutes to complete in the micro wave oven now takes 15 seconds less time? (popcorn in the bag).
Nine days ago I placed 3 Emats in my friends system. 1 Mat each on the breaker box 40 ft from his audio system and the others on his dac and transport. The system was on when I arrived and he told me it had been spinning for a couple of hours..I had listened to these same components many time before and was never at ease at how the music made me feel. I brought music that I had just listened to on my home system and then listened to the same music on my friends system prior to placing the Emats as stated above. Same physical sensation...not at ease and not relaxed.
After placing the mats and playing the same music..within a minute or two I was now relaxed and at at total ease. Wow the turn around in how the music made me feel was amazing. No longer were my eyes and head moving around nor was body aimlessly wandering around on the chair in search of all the musical parts coming together. Now what I saw and heard was in much better alignment and symmetrical form. And yes I was toe tapping..but in no time at all I found myself nodding off..all of this with new found details in the music. Amazing how the Emats enhance the musical experience almost as if I were surrounded by calm waters at the Captiva beach.
Okay that was day 1 now to day 9 or even before. My friend called to tell me his wife and daughter took notice that the 3 TVs in their house were much brighter and more colorful and less grainy than before the installation of the Emats.The only Mat of the 3 that could have made an impression on the flat screens was the Mat on the breaker panel .They also made positive comments on the sound system and one was caught playing air guitar..never before. Next day after that visual was announced the same 2 women complained to my friend that he needed to turn the electric water heater down as the water was way to hot. An Emat placed on an audio component would have no impact on an electric water heater but may if there was a Mat attached to the breaker panel. I think there will be many more common devices and surfaces that will benefit with the placement and use of the Emat.Tom
I placed my one E-Mat to the upper half of my 200 amp service. Is there any significant benefit to putting an E-Mat to the lower half of the service where the breakers are located?
rc ... I'd do mine all at once. That way they can break in together, plus you'll get the maximum effect all at once in the SQ department. That would be fun.
Back to audio. I am thinking of placing the new “Smaller” pads, when released, on my 2 power strips and 2 power conditioners on each system. My question is, do you think I should do them all at once or in any particular order?
FYI, my fridge IS maintaining a colder temperature. The fresh vegetables froze two weeks in a row. I did not put the Mat and freezing together initially but I thought I remembered an earlier post and you were right. I will raise the temperature, like you suggested.
For those of you who have the Omega E Mats ... put one under your power conditioner. I did just that last night. Initially, it degraded the sound ... there was less there there. Upon listening this morning, everything was back and then some. Wow!
I have now placed 11 E-Mats in my system. It's strange that when I placed 1 additional E-Mat after 10 under my CD player, subpanel box and power transformer, the sound became slightly muddled. I decided to leave no.11 on top of the power transformer, with one under and now two covering the large top. After 1 day I listened again and the muddled sound was absent; instead, replaced with even more focused sound, more of what Kedoades heard with only his 2 mats. Amazing!
So I now have 9 days on my 2nd mat and there is more improvement. The 1st thing I noticed after a few hours of placing the 2nd mat there was more bass. Gradually after a few days of the mat settling in I have noticed that not only has the soundstage again gotten a little taller and wider it has also expanded to where it sounds like it is going farther behind the speakers and my rooms walls. And yes even more detail in the music and more natural sound. I love these e mats.
I have tried and owned several Bybee products for my Audio system. I do find the Omega E Mat to have a greater positive effect on my music enjoyment. Like several other posters on this thread , I have found the Mat to improve the sound over the course of several weeks. I also agree that several Mats placed in a system adds progressive improvement.
Over the course of the last two years of careful equipment evaluations, I have found that major audible improvements can be obtained with upgrading to Synergistic Research Blue Fuses, Synergistic Research wall outlets, Total Contact, and finally and importantly the Omega E Mat.
The magnitude of improvement using these devices is significant and is greater than when I switch out my Pass Lab Amplifier for the Art Audio Tube Amplifier.
Wow! What a concert! That was a real tight bluegrass group. The place was packed and every foot was tapping. Nothing like live music to get things into perspective.
I removed the VPI ring outerclamp soon after I got it. It dulled the sound. I kept the VPI heavyweight clamp though on my TNT VI. LPs sound better with it. More focused and solid sounding. I want to try even more elaborate clamps such as Stillpoints. I traded for a copper ring outerclamp from a Canadian manufacturer whose name I forgot. It is better than the VPI but similar overall effect except on truly warped discs. I use it on those discs where it has a marked benefit.
Frank and my LP tables are as different as night and day. His is a well tempered with associated arm, while mine is the mentioned TNT IV with an modified SME IV.
Uh, I’m thinking that maybe all record clamps may be "crap." How would one know unless the noise floor was lowered to the point where you could actually hear the "crap?"
Look, I’m not talking about a small reduction in the noise floor here, I’m talking about a DRAMATIC reduction.
Hopefully you’ve read Fleschler’s last post by now.
These Omega E Mats are cumulative in nature. Its not surprising at all that certain things are revealed by them as the noise floor drops to a more DRAMATIC level. That would include the removal of a turntable clamp. Oh, and the clamp is hardly "crap" as you described it. Are you still indulging in the Christmas cheer? :-)
I feel the same as you. After tweaking the system over the years with a multitude of tweaks, nothing has even come close to what Total Contact and the Omega E Mats have done for the SQ. The improvement has been DRAMATIC. :>)
This has been some of the most fun I have had with all the tweaks I have tried and purchased. There seems to be a synergy with all existing equipment and tweaks in both of my systems with absolutely no negatives.
I installed 4 more E-Mats several days ago (paid for 12, have 10 now installed). I doubled the direct equipment only power panel, doubled the Bit20 (with one on top and one under), doubled the EAR Acute CD player and tripled the pre/phono under. For the first 20 minutes, I wasn't satisfied with the sound, jazz was sounding too forward and just not right. After an hour, the sound calmed down and then I began noticing the difference. First, the dynamics and soundstaging grew bigger. Unusual miking of instruments on one CD had a triangle hit outside of the mix to the left of the left speaker, like it was added later. It was always in the mix within the soundstage previously. Separation of instruments and singers is greater. Percussion and bass are cleaner/more detailed. The music sounds more organic if there is such a phrase applicable to the sound. While I could easily live with 6 E-Mats, 10 are better, just like 12 were better at Franks' place.
The price of an early pressed RCA LS of the the Shafran Shotavovich/Schubert LP has been $1000+ I didn't think my latest CD copy made it sound so special that it was worth anywhere near that. After the first 6 E-Mats were installed, I was thrown for a loop. The CD sounded spectacular. Now I can understand why the LP garners such high prices. It's that way with the several dozen LPs and CDs I've heard since installing 10 E-Mats. More spectacular sound from previously good recordings that did not show their true quality.
Drastic is not really the word you were looking for. Perhaps dramatic. Perhaps another synonym of dramatic. Perhaps pronounced. But not drastic. Besides, by your own words you’ve been using that crap record clamp for what, like forever? Hopefully, most people would not (rpt) have to invest in red fuses, black fuses, blue fuses, TC, and umptyump mats before they could hear how crappy their clamp is. I certainly wouldn’t admit it. Carry on. 🕺
"The drastic lowering of the noise floor? Whoa! Dude!"
You’d have to hear it to believe it. Send a PM to Fleischer and ask him what his results have been. "Drastic" is a very appropriate term to describe what these two products will to for an audio system.
Has anyone heard an update on the mini mees? Tim intimated they would be 1/10 size, effect and cost. Really would love to try some but not sure what the product release date is.
With the drastic lowering of the noise floor due to the TC and the Omega E Mats, I’ve discovered a couple of things that improved the system even further.
1. I now leave the record clamp off of my turn table. Its more open and dynamic without it.
2. I have a large built-in curio cabinet in the adjoining dining room. If I leave one of the doors to the cabinet open, I get a more transparent open sound with an improvement in bass defintion.
None of the above was revealed prior to using these two products.
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Rc, congrats on bringing out the best in your system. I agree with all of your descriptions. There is such a quiet background now that reveals the reverberant decay of vocals recorded with the ambience of a large hall.
It has been more than three weeks since I placed the mat on the rear of the breaker panel door and the only word that comes to mind is WOW 🤯 The music is just beautiful.
Notes are more fully fleshed out. Details that we’re uncovered at the beginning of the TC and the first mat are now much more integrated into the musical whole.
Dynamics are also incredible and more life like without turning up the volume. Having said that, I did turn up the volume ever so slightly and the music became more powerful without any strain to the system. This has been recently reported and I experienced the exact same thing.
A huge and clear soundstage with the afore mentioned detail also opened up further.
It it has also been reported that even marginal cds are sounding good. That has been my experience as well. I hear more musical detail, that I thought was irritating noise, that is now better defined and part of the performance.
To me, these two mats have been incredibly effective in making the music much better in my system for a very reasonable cost.
That was a wonderful post all the way around. Thanks so much. We have to be careful with the emotional stuff though. Before you know it, we'll have Geoff spewing his Budweiser all over our monitors. :-)
By the way Geoff ... friends don't let friends drink Budweiser. *lol*
@tommylion Thanks for the explanation of how reviews are selected in the mags. I suppose it makes sense that we, the consumer, pay via elevated prices on products for the manufacturer to pay a mag to review a product. I would have thought a review for public benefit or interest would have been an inclusion, but flipping back through the odd audio mags I read while "on the pot", it seems the only public interest is the letters to the editor.
@nkonor I sympathise, and empathise with you. I am so sorry to hear of your plight. It amazes me to read posts by individuals, try to imagine what they look like, but never think of their personal wellbeing. I hope/pray your condition does not worsen. I would be able to afford a few mats and some TC if it wasn't for the cost of the drugs and constant stays in hospital!
@oregonpapa Do not go too close to induction cooktops. These ARE powerful and CAN effect pacemakers and some metallic implants. It was my own specialist who warned me after I joked about it. He was very serious.
I recall visiting my grandmother who lived 500 miles away, just after my end of school exams, and I was as nervous as heck about my pass mark so I could go to Uni. She was a lady of the land and she said "Worry is like a rocking chair. It keeps you occupied but does get you anywhere".
A very wise old lady who I miss. My own parents just turned 94 and had their 70th wedding anni. I hope I am able to emulate them as Jen and I have just had our 40th. 30 to go!
I've been a follower of this gentleman most of my working life in sales. I hope you explore his teachings and get as much out of it as I have over the years.
To answer your question ... nope, I’m not going to tape an Omega E Mat to my chest.
The older I get, the more I realize that life itself is terminal. Human life is a natural cycle. None of us is getting out of it alive ... and we all leave life in our own way.
I look at my four grandchildren, and my three great grandchildren and realize that we old duffers have to get out of the way to make room for the new generations. Nature takes care of that for us. Believing in a glorious afterlife seems to help. :-)
The key is not how much one acquires in life, but in the quality of the relationships one leaves behind. Also important is to lead a disciplined life. Why? Because discipline weighs ounces ... regret weighs tons.
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