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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wesheadley & wolf-garcia ...

Here's an excerpt so that you guys won't have to look it up:

"Anything political seems to be off limits here .... and for good reason. I absolutely love politics. In addition to music, literature (especially political history), my children, grandchildren and yes, my great grandchildren, politics is my driving force.

With that said, I don’t mind sharing with you guys that I used to belong to another site (not audiophile related) that had a politics section. I was a moderator on that forum. I thought it was great fun at first, but it soon denigrated into friends becoming enemies. In today’s political climate, it would be a lot worse. Therefore, as much as I would love to debate politics with some of you, I support the mods on this forum to keep the politics out. I think we should all respect that."

Frank
randy sez:

" Even asking simple questions and foolishly expecting rational answers to them can result in being labeled a "troll" or "negative nancy"

So randy ... what "simple questions" haven't been answered at this point? Name them.

Frank
His philosophy is to give customers their money’s worth. At various audio shows in Los Angeles in the past two years, about a dozen exhibitors allowed him to use his ICs and sometimes his PCs (we tour the shows together). They all wanted to keep them for the remainder of the show they liked them so much. Those using Nordost and Transparent Audio wouldn’t try them. http://www.groverhuffman.com/home Even his IC connector’s are designed and manufactured for his own line using pure copper coated with 20mil silver and low mass. He also has a 60 day full refund return policy (with about one return in about 200 orders).
Wolf_garcia
[ …question the efficacy of certain seemingly "faith based" tweaks at your peril! Even asking simple questions and foolishly expecting rational answers to them can result in being labeled a "troll" or "negative nancy" ........Golden Eared Uber-Qualified sophisticates who shamelessly promote certain things are "real serious" magic hat rack and directional fuse wire aficionados with money to burn. $300 contact enhancing goo that takes 80 hours to ultimately work its Complete and Astonishing System Improvement magic....should be accepted on faith as, after all, what the heck do YOU know anyway? Just order the stuff, smear it on your wires........]



What "questions" that have you been asking about the product? I can’t see any questions in the above statement for sure.
Do you consider you comment " Golden Eared Uber-Qualified sophisticates who shamelessly promote certain things are "real serious" magic hat rack and directional fuse wire aficionados with money to burn" to be a question? If so, you need to have a think about what the word means.
Perhaps pointing out that it costs $299 as you and others have done? No, that’s not a question either and it reflects an underlying assumption, and it in no way questions its efficacy, just its affordability. Or how pointing out about the fact that it takes 8 weeks to really take effect - is that question?

Derogatory statements - put downs, slagging-off, pi**-takes whatever are not "questions". Calling into question whether it is too expensive or takes too long to work (which is not a question!) has nothing to do with its efficacy either.
Essentially the "negative nancies" have decided, in advance that this product for whatever personal reason, can’t / won’t work. And that’s just being intellectually lazy.
I note that there has not been one technical objection to the links that I presented. So either people didn’t read them, didn’t understand them or simply feel that taking cheap shots is somehow an appropriate response when they are presented with information that they can’t incorporate into their world view.