New Tweak --- Its Fantastic


THE NEW TWEAK

Over the good part of this past year I’ve been beta testing a new tweak, the name of which is "Total Contact." Its a hi-bred graphene contact enhancer that is different from all other contact enhancers that have come and gone for one reason or another. I’m not new to these contact enhancers, having had quite a bit of experience with a product developed by the late Brian Kyle and his "Quick Silver" contact enhancer. The "Total Contact" is different ... a LOT different.

"Total Contact" is graphene based and is not a vibration control. It eliminates micro-arching between two contacts. Micro-arching, much like Micro-vibration smears the sound in our stereo systems. Its the type of distortion that we don’t know is there .... until we eliminate it. There is no break-in as we know it. The sound is improved right off the bat, but what you hear is only a smidgen of what’s to come.

I tested three generations of "TC," each of which was an improvement over the previous incarnation. The final mix was cryogenitically treated and made for a more effective, much smoother application. It comes in a large hypodermic needle type plunger containing 1.5 ml of product and includes a instructional DVD and an application brush.

The application should be applied with a very thin coat to all of your electrical connections .... from your cartridge pins to your power cords. I did my entire system, including the ends of my fuses.

Upon initial application, you will notice an improvement in clarity, correctness of tonal balance and a more overall organic sound. But ... that is just scratching the surface of what this magic paste does. As it cures, the improvements become more apparent. Much more!

There are two real break-through events that happen almost to the day with "Total Contact," one at four weeks and another at eight weeks . At four weeks, you’ll get a real jump in clarity and overall improvement. That’s only a taste though of what’s to come at eight weeks. At eight weeks your system’s focus will make a jump in SQ that is so real - its surreal.

After 40 years in the hobby, and a total tweak nut, I have never heard anything that does what this graphene paste does. The see-through clarity at eight weeks becomes simply amazing. The "paste" eventually cures into a kind of polymer plastic and it seems that the sound improves with each listening session. So, its important that you leave your contacts alone for the duration. If you’re the type of person that continually switches wires in and out, you’ll have to re paste until enough time has elapsed to get "the cure."

The only problem I had was with the first batch and that had to do with shorting out a tube pin in the line stage. Use the "TC" very sparingly on tube pins, if at all. I only had problems with the line stage tube pins. The Amp, CD Player and Phono Stage has had no tube pin problems at all.

Tim Mrock, one of our fellow A’goners, is the developer of the product. Its taken Tim 15 years and several patents to get it right. Tim has "pasted" every electrical contact he can find in his audio system, all of the switches in his circuit breaker box, every contact in his car ... and has used it in commercial applications such as hospital circuit breakers, surgical lights ... and other places where efficiency and long life of electrical components are deemed important.

This product is highly recommended to anyone who truly wants to get the most out of his/her audio systems. There’s enough product in each tube to do at least two audio systems as it just takes a very thin coat on each application to be effective. The last tube was enough to do my system twice and then a friend’s system this past weekend.


Frank

PS: There were a couple of other A’goner beta testers of this product as well. Hopefully, they will chime in here with their experiences for comparison. I "pasted" both of Steve Fleschler’s systems a few days ago, perhaps he will comment on his results too. We forgot to paste Steve’s power cords though, so there’s a lot more to be had from Steve’s two fantastic systems.

Frank
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WillemJ
[ In Europe, consumer protection agencies have gone to court in comparable cases to argue that this is consumer fraud....I have no idea about US law]

I only know a little about US law but a statement claiming that a product that you know nothing about is "fraud" based on some misunderstanding on the nature of the manufacturer's claims would be argued to be libel in a court of Law. 
Randy-11
[ you don't have to use heroin to know what it does


and it is very easy to know what something can NOT do (except for the few antiVAXers and others who deny physics and electronics) ]

Still at it are we? What do you know about the product? It uses Graphene (an established and well understood Molecule) mixed with other substances in a polymer (the polymer has not been specified as far as I know).
So based on this information (i.e. the 2 facts above, what do you know in can NOT do? Can't improve the conductivity of connections perhaps? (refer the links I provided). Can't reduce oxidation  maybe? (ditto). Can't provide an interface with almost zero resistance ?(links, Randy, read the links).
Seriously, making a statement like that proves a few things IMHO:
1. You don't understand or want to understand that this product can work based on solid scientific research. (Physics!)
2. Your intent is to crap all over a product that you have no idea about, no experience with and obviously no understanding of.

Respectfully (!), Donny McCaslin will be at the Village Vanguard later this month (and so will I) and you can ask him about the forehead experiment. He’s gonna deny it ever happened. Also, "There certainly has been evidence offered here that the product works as advertised." Don’t confuse opinions packed with hyperbole with "evidence." For those who don’t know what that means, I offer: "Hyperbole, derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting,” is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis." If the goo works, it allows a better electrical contact…that’s it…the miraculous transformation of your gear heap from whatever it was to an uber revealing sound reproduction miracle is resulting from better wire contact? The wires remain the same, the gear is the same, the contact points have goo on them...and the rest is hyperbole…although now you know what that means. You’re welcome.
geoffkait
Everyone should be treated with respect, even the pseudo skeptics.

You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. - Old audiophile tweak manufacturer axiom

to which oregonpapa OP replied,
^^^ Yeah George, but what do you do when you have several people constantly crapping in your honey??

Frank, please don’t start confusing me with George. 😛
Geoff is off his A-game.  He hasn't inquired if TC is applied with brush strokes only in one direction, back and forth, or in a circular fashion.