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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My "panel service" was finished yesterday.  An electrician and the power company met at my house at 9am.  The power company opened the meter and we went to town disconnecting the utility service, removing the conductive grease, pasting the TC on the outside meter connections, and doing the same inside on my electrical panel.  It took about 1.5 hours.  The power company technician treated the incoming utility lines and even the meter.  I went back to work afterwards. About 5 hours later, I listened to my system and played the same 6 recordings that I'm using the evaluate the TC product.  All I can say in Tim's words is "WOW" ... lol.  The monoblock tube amps I'm using are known to have a muted transient response as compared to my $28K reference solid state amp.  I had improved it over the last five days by replacing the stock fuses with SR Blue fuses and treating all contacts on the monoblocks with TC.  When I listened last night after the panel service was complete, the last hint of transient response deficiency was gone.  The transient response of my tube monoblocks are now on par with the ss reference amp, I'm hearing much deeper into the recording, and the front to back layering is of a much higher density.  The piano which can be a difficult instrument to accurately reproduce is fleshed out before my eyes.
I finally switched out my office system’s powerstrip from a Office Depot powerstrip, with a simple Eichman powerstrip and Crimson power chord (given to me by my dealer/friend). He felt sorry for me I guess. I proceeded to treated all new and existing power chord ends with TC. I thought it would make a positive difference while suffering a major setback, since I had 10 weeks of TC curing beforehand on the Office Depot strip. However, the positive  effect was way beyond what I thought possible with my office system. Now I can look forward to the 4 and 8 week TC curing period. I will report back when I reach those curing periods in the office system.

This product keeps making everything better.

rc


^^^  That's one of the most interesting things about TC ... .it just seems to keep getting better over time, even past the 8 week jump. 

Frank
Finally, time to chip in to this discussion. I’ve had an audio plan that has taken about 5 years to finally come together where I love the sound my components along with cables are putting out. That part is now done unless something breaks.

A friend of mine had extra TC left over from his system and let me use part of it. I felt pretty confident that all changes were now done so it was time to do a little painting of the connectors. I did my WHOLE system at once taking about 5-6 hours. Figure there was over 210 contacts to paint if you count the individual pins on tubes. I did the tube pins, fuse ends, RCA pins, IEC blades, AC plugs, banana plugs, spade lugs, and the screens covering my ribbon tweeters along with the plastic jackets that cover the bananas--Tim said this would make a nice difference. After pulling all my components from my Sistrum racks, painting, and replacing them in the rack again, I was beat and just relaxed the rest of the evening.

Today, I gave it 30 minutes to warm up and then listened. Already, there was more definition, more precise images, and the biggest change so far, more articulate and powerful bass. I purposely listened to some very mediocre sounding albums to see if I was gaining or losing the desire to listen to MORE music. The answer, so far is gaining. EVERYTHING sounds more involving. After about 5 whole albums, I put on a couple that are excellent recordings. They were spectacular.

It’s going to be a fun ride to the 4 week and then 8 week jumps in performance. And Tim says there will be gains for up to 1 year. And I now have to do NOTHING to achieve these. It’s going to cost approximately $60-80 each to do out systems. How good is that?

You’ll be hearing more from me fairly soon.
Bob