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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Most people think that upgrading consist in buying better electronic components... And simple tweaking of the multiple embeddings (acoustical, vibrations-resonances, electrical ) of an audio system seems to them too beautiful to be true... But the reality is that, upgrading by exchanging an already good component to a so called better one is an illusion and an elusive course...

Any real upgrade consist first in the revelation of the true potential of what we already owns, without knowing yet what is able to do in the first place the audio system we listen to for years...

Omega Path technology seems to simply gives a real upgrade to what we already enjoy and after that making us able to forget about buying anything else...

It is my experience with my own tweaking... No need of LSD to awake to a better sound...Simply: takes care of the multiple embeddings, the acoustical and electrical one being the most important...


Without these embeddings cares the most costly system will sound bad, or at least not at his peak level at all and sometimes atrocious... At this moment yes to forget this fact, LSD or Scotch is a good idea :)
Ozzy, they are tubed amps, eleven in each, and they are way over their traditional life of 2500 hours.  I have new sets of KT150 tubes to put in, but I just can't stop listening.  
jafreeman,

Thanks for the reply. I tried the mats under my Bob Carver mono blocks and I did not like the results, too forward sounding. But perhaps I didn't give it enough time. Did you notice an improvement right away?

ozzy
With the E+ mats, yes, I noticed an improvement right away that became more of an improvement over days. At first, the sound was a bit much in the low end. Over time, the sound refined to a very satisfying performance. Hard to say what you should do. Maybe put them somewhere else and add your next order of mats to your amps? May I ask, where are you in overall mat usage--not so much in numbers, but in distribution?
I now have some E+ mats around components and quite a few regular mats spread around, eg, under each Maggie speaker, over breaker switches, under CD player, under and on top of a transformer. The E+ mats under amps were the last placed--did have regular mats there, though. Those four regulars were able to go elsewhere. So, wondering if my amps responded so well to E+ mats because other areas had been treated first?
I am looking forward to your results either way.  
You have a great system!  I have a feeling there are more mats in there now than I am seeing in your pics.