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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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@oregonpapa,

Now!

Your question "since when have you been willing to be incorrect" is really invalid. OK, I missed it. You want to make a federal case out of it.

Again, you let your passion get ahead of whatever guides your posts here. (You really hold a grudge, don’t you?)

(for the record, I answered (now) to Frank’s question as to whether I could admit to being wrong)

I did not find it hard to do. I expect the same going forward.
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I just applied TC and want to add my impression to these discussions. Before applying, I contacted Tim the other day concerning application to the various contacts. Tim was most informative and very genuine. We spoke at least 20 minutes and he answered all my questions so I felt quite confident prior to the application.

Application went very smoothly on all my components which took about 2 hours. This included 10 power cords, both on the male pins on the cables and in the components IEC sockets; 7 RCA/ SPDIF cables and the outer socket shell on the components; 4 fuses; speaker spades, SR XOT banana pins; 6 SR power warts and connections. I did not apply any to the electrical feeds to the receptacles which I may do later. I did not use the supplied gloves but it was easy to wash off with soap and water. I used approximately .5ml TC on all these contacts so there is enough for 2 additional systems.

Now to the sound. My dedicated sound room is 13x18x7 with a suspended acoustical ceiling, area rug and acoustic panels placed at specific locations. The speakers are approximately 4’ from the front wall and 3’ from side walls and 7’ apart. My listening position is 8’ from the speakers. The first thing I noticed was a larger soundstage which also extended forward. There is also more pop in the music. Voices and instruments were cleaner and clearer. Digital glare on poorer recordings was reduced. This is truly a great product and tweak to my system. I’ve tried various tweaks throughout the years and not all have made a difference or improvement. I’m looking forward to any further improvement over the next 8 week break in period.

BTW- I want to thank Frank for starting this post and responding to my personal questions.
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What...? no quips??? Frank,, what's going on? You must be taking a nap?
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slaw sez:

  • Again, you let your passion get ahead of whatever guides your posts here. (You really hold a grudge, don’t you?)


Grudge? Not me Junior ... I just call 'em as I see 'em.

Go back and re-read all of your negative posts in this thread from the beginning, slaw ... then tell us how trying your best to derail the new product has failed. Utterly failed.

Tell us how sorry you are, slaw. Then after that, apologize to Tim about your destructive behavior. That's what a REAL man would do, slaw.

For the life of me slaw, I cannot imagine why you continue to return to this thread, other than to continue to interject your negative BS ... especially in consideration of all of the very positive reviews starting to come in.

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By the way ... for the positive thinkers ... Grover modified a Pioneer Elite DVD player for me a couple of weeks ago. New caps and a beefed up power supply. I've been using it as a CD player. This is one hell of a player. It was treated with TC upon bringing it home two weeks ago.  Had to get an adapter so it would accept the SR power cord.

Robert came over for a listening session last night and commented on how much more coherent everything was compared to when he listened last, three nights ago. I attributed it to the TC starting to set. I only pasted the power cord and the IC's. A fantastic product.

Frank
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