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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Guys, I always hesitate joining such discussion as my experience with TClargely parralel those of Tom, but I know virtually no one has most of my equipment. My amp, line stage, and phono stage are all of Roger Paul's innovation at his North American H-Cat shop, my speakers from BMC, my grounding unit from Tripoint that is very labor intentsive and expensive, and my ICs, PCs, and speaker wires from High Fidelity Cables, in the Tripoint's Troy grounding unit, and in a Avari DAC, a DSD music server runnind Synalyst software, and finally a Ikeda Kai cartridge on their 407 Long arm and a Nantais/Lexon tt.

I have an essential tremor in my right hand and am right handed so I have been hoping it would go away to allow me to paint the signal cables and PC spades.

I have heard high end and bass end improvements with my treated speaker cables, but nothing with my treated grounding connection of the Tripoint grounding unit.
    
Anyone else experiencing the 4 week jump in performance? A couple of you are approaching the 8 week jump too. Don't forget to post your results here. 

Thanks ...

Frank
When I treated my system, I delayed doing my digital cable because I was nervous about painting XLR pins. When I finally got up the courage a couple weeks later, I realized it was no big deal, and felt silly 🙄 I believe tube pins will be the final frontier for me. I definitely want to treat them, but I've got over a grand invested in 6 tubes 😱

Anyways, my DC is behind the rest, and passed the 4 week mark a couple days ago. Another nice bump up in TC goodness. What stood out to me was how the overall presentation got even more relaxed and airy.

My system will be passing the 8 week mark (except for that pesky DC) next week, and I am really looking forward to it. Not changing anything in it for this many weeks feels like a real accomplishment 😉


It’s a fine bunch of nervous Nellies we have here. I painted the pins of my Audioquest Carbon HDMI Cable a few weeks ago. I used the brush. No problem. Faint heart ne’er won fair maiden. 💃🏻
Almost forgot, I passed 4 weeks treating the power cords on my TV (low end 55” Samsung 4K LED) and cable box. Picture is amazing.