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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Hey wolf,

Those articles are a bit of an eye opener.  From what I can understand you definitely do not want to be cutting sheets of graphite yourself, as some have suggested.  Best left to the professionals.

Have you two knuckleheads given any consideration to ingesting some Graphene to see if it really is toxic? Maybe a blind test.  Then you can report your findings. Assuming you survive, obviously. 🤡 Oh, plus it comes in a syringe. 💉 Doesn’t that give you any ideas? 😬
Day 7

On day 4, I pasted pins on the cartridge. Again, SQ went slight downhill but recovered after playing about 10 LP. Yeah, it took it’s sweet time. Other stuff took only about an hour and opened up nicely but not the cartridge.

In last couple of days sound of my system did changed. I will try to break it down.

First, like others said.....noise floor is DOWN. I am not dreaming. How..?? I Don’t know. Ask Tim. Considering how many tubes I have in my system, it is more silent for sure. And I think because of lower noise, music is cleaner, clear more transparent. Not by much compared to pre TC.....but it is bit more transparent.

HF is effected by lower noise the most I think, I hear more of it. That’s all I can explain it. Not harsh or bright. Same smoothness as pre TC. Is lower noise=more air? There seems more air(space) to me.

Mid (mostly voice) was little recessed right after but got better within an hour and continued to improved. Now, voice of the singer is back to where it should be. Also, whole mid range has more meat now. It never sounded lean before but little fatter now. Again It’s not a day and night difference. Just a bit more.

Bass...is great. This is what I notice the most. Not boomy or loose or too much. How can I say this......It doesn’t go lower as I first thought but pumps out more of lowest frequency limit of my speaker can go, about 30hz. It is tight, fast and musical bass.

My soundstage also has changed. Before, stage started from little bit behind the speakers and expand to front and outside of the speakers. Now, it floats further front the speakers now. Like, whole stage has moved forward a foot. Stage is not any bigger though but just, I feel, the soundstage is more between the speakers and myself than between the speakers. And you know what..? I like it and hope it stays that way


If I went away for a week or 2 and my friend pasted all my stuff with the TC and never told me, I may not be able to tell you I hear something different. Least not right away. It is not like I’m listening to totally different system. It’s more like , how your system sound like 3am compare to 3pm.

As of today, I like the changes TC made to my system. Nothing big but I think It’s heading right direction. Also, I Don’t think TC has done anything to degrade the SQ at this time. I think that is just as important as positive impacts.

I know this isn’t much but That’s for now. My apology I didn’t go into great details but there isn’t whole lot to say...lol. Again, It’s been only a week since TC took over.

Hummm.....I think soundstage is getting bigger............




Geoff, why not just admit that in all the chatter about graphene, it was wolf that brought up the concern first about a potential safety hazard if it is used incorrectly.  You will notice I did not bring it up about TC, I discussed cutting it from its sheet format, as do the articles. 

Wolf did not discuss its application, he discussed potential consequences from inhaling it when removing the application, using a rather tongue in cheek delivery.  So I am not sure why you took such objection to the rather informative posts.