Another ozzy Review


Another ozzy Review

I must say that I have been a long time tweaker, and I have tried most of the raved about tweaks, including cables, footers, and power products. So, so many…

If you look up ozzy on Audiogon you can see my long history, and you can also find some of my negative reviews and comments. And yes, I have posted some negative comments of the Perfect Path products. Some of my posts got deleted. Yes, I was a skeptic, very much so. The claims of its performance seemed highly exaggerated. With no technical explanation provided? What the heck can this thin mat possibly do?

Well, I now have tried the new Omega + mats and I must say that I am now a totally Perfect Path Technologies convert.

I placed 2 of the Omega + mats in my circuit breaker box and sure enough within hours the picture quality of all of my TV’s in the house started looking better. That is, better color, sharpness, and contrast. In my audio system the sound stage became much deeper and vibrant in tonality. There is a “realness” to the music. Other than equipment upgrades this has been the single biggest improvement in my audio system. Awesome! Congratulations Krissy!

The only place where the Omega mats did not work well was under my tube amps. The soundstage narrowed. Interesting, was it the tubes? Or the fact that the amps are handwired with little if any modern electronics inside? Perhaps it is just my amps? I dunno…

I have read claims that the Omega Mats can reduce electric bills and when I heard that, I thought what a crock…

But now I think, if it can clean up the picture and audio throughout the house (as it does), it doesn’t take much more to imagine that it is cleaning up the AC. Perhaps eliminating the distortion in the AC that I was paying for. I actually now do expect that my next electric bills to show a reduction in Kilowatt used. But only if I play my audio system about the same amount of time as before. The way I am going now with such improved / increased sound quality that may not happen, its on all the time!

Along with my order for the mats, I also received a few of the Alpha cards as well. I then placed these cards in areas that I had Bybee Signal Enhancers and the Bybee IQSE enhancers. And wow again, I could instantly hear the benefit of these small cards over the Bybee’s. I just sold off the Bybee’s which included the Signal Enhancers and the IQSE versions. They were pretty easy to sell, but I don’t regret it. It should give me more money to buy more of the Perfect Path products! I also previously sold off all of my High Fidelity MC-0.5’s, they didn’t cohabitate with the PPP well. That is; there was a rough sharpness to the sound quality with the MC-05’s in the system.

The claims for these products do seem to be outlandish, and at first, they seem a little pricey but the improvement obtained would cost so much more in equipment upgrades. I’m still not sure what sort of technology is being used but boy I am highly impressed; you will be too!

ozzy


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I own a Tascam HR recorder. This unit uses SD cards that records HR files from Qoboz. Once on the SD card I then transfer the file to my external hard drive. Nice way to build up a HR collection.

Anyway, since shoulder surgery I have been limited in my activities. Yesterday, I tried using the Tascam which also has a Omega Mat underneath and I found that the Tascam kept giving error messages about device error. After I removed the Omega mat it performs fine.

So, is it the magnetism of the mat or the mat itself that effected the Tascam?

ozzy 
^^^ I have a Teac CD burner that is the same as the Tascam. I have two original E-Mats under it with no probems.

Frank
The difference may be the usage of the SD cards. Or it might just be the Tascam electronics.
 I guess my concern would be getting the mats too close to a hard drive if the magnetism is an issue.

ozzy

Since I started this review, I have tried to update the effects so that others thinking of trying the mats would have a reference point. These updates are with my equipment and my ears, and as they say, “YMMV”.

Frank had previously suggested using the mats on the back of speakers. Not wanting to affix anything that would mar the finish on my hi gloss speaker cabinets, I was reluctant. So, I placed a couple of the mats stacked on top of my Focal Sopra 2 speakers. It was a minor improvement to me in sound quality but nothing to get excited about.

So, yesterday I decided it was time to fully experiment. I moved the Omega mats that were on top of my speakers to the back of the cabinets. I used electrical tape to secure them. One mat was adhered to the top back behind the mid and tweeter section and the other was placed behind the woofers.

Well first opinions can sometimes be dangerous and whereas this was the case, the soundstage collapsed and the music lost its upper end frequencies and the soundstage was pushed way back sounding sort of mono. I wanted to remove them immediately. I turned off my stereo and then went to bed to deal with this another time.

About 20 hours later, I was really surprised as to the transformation that took place. The once collapsed, center sounding, mono sound now sounded glorious with a much clearer soundstage. And even better dynamics than before the experiment began! Much more detail, that is; in the sound of instruments and vocals. Now this is with using the original E mats, the + versions may be even better.

It’s funny though, some places these mats work right away, but in this case the sound quality actually degraded before going full circle and beyond.

Krissy, you should try to market these mats to loudspeaker manufacturers. Or put me on your payroll and I will. LOL.

ozzy


Ozzy .,.

 
  •  I guess my concern would be getting the mats too close to a hard drive if the magnetism is an issue.
I have a pretty impressive bedroom system for what it is. Just a desktop PC with a pair of powered Audioengine A2+ speakers. Considering that I have a Gate installed in the circuit breaker box, that largely contributes to the good sound that comes from this system. However, I do have 20 Alpha-E Cards magnetically attached to the outside surfaces of the PC and a few more rests on the modem. To date, no problems with the hard drive on the PC.

By the way, Ozzy, I want to share this with you...

A friend of mine, a well-known cable builder, put together two rather elaborate filtering systems that plugged into my power conditioner. At the time we installed them years ago, it was a definite improvement and took care of system problems that existed at that point. 

Two days ago, I decided to try the system with the filters removed. Well, to say there was an improvement would be understating the situation. It was like a wall of smeared glass was removed from the sound-field. 

I have two audiophile friends coming over for a listening session today. They are very familiar with the system, so they are going to be shocked. 

The point is, if anyone has PPT products in their system and is using plug-in filters of any kind, try removing them and see what happens.

Frank