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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well said

Graphene is the new buzz word...

I expect to see Graphene anti-vibrator speaker stands pretty soon
dynaquest4,

Trolls run down and ridicule things they have zero experience with, and no real interest in trying, in order to stir up controversy for their own amusement. That's exactly what you’re doing here, and have a history of doing elsewhere.
Funny again, tommylion. I have no experience with a lot of scams and useless, ineffective tweaks. That I have no experience likely says more about my smarts than your gullibility and risk taking.
This thread (I’ve read all 9 pages) has been a shambolic and quite horrible waste of time for all concerned. Yes, there has been a lot of trolling but the way that it has been responded to has been quite disappointing also.
There has been, in the middle of all this cr*p, some genuine requests for information and answers have not been forthcoming for whatever reason. That doesn’t really help the cause of the product regardless of its merit.
The best thing for the vendor to do and for the genuine enquirer might be to stop the endless to and thro and wait until the 15th (or whatever date transpires) to put a full suite of information up on the interwebs for all to see.
P.S. I own a tube of Mad Scientist Graphene solution. Yes it is messy as hell, but that is simply a bi-product of the fact that it is in an oil solution and you simply work around that in the same way that you use common sense when painting or soldering or other potentially messy activities.
It has been on parts of my system for the better part of a year with no degradation (To answer that concern). The most significant use I put it to was on the end ends of some Dueland tinned copper speaker cable that I then clamped solid copper spades on to (compression fixing with grub screws). The results were, on a purely subjective level, very positive. I noted that when I set up the cables with bare ends, after about 2 days the sound went from very detailed to very muffled. Presumably this was due to oxidisation of the tin - I live in a semi tropical climate which is about 15kms from the sea. I applied the graphene and it was initially a little bit bright sounding (subjective). After about 2 days this settled down and over the last 4 months I now have a lovely sound from the cables (again subjective).
No DBT or other measurements of this I’m afraid. I am thinking about getting a multimeter that can read very low resistances and doing some before and after tests just to inform myself about whether there is any measurable difference after the treatment. It would be nice to find some change as I think I can hear a change - and I hope it can backed up in some way with measurements. I do trust my ears and those of my friends but I always like to have some datum to have on hand so that I don’t get whacked over the head by objectivists.
randy-11 - Graphene is attracting a lot of attention due to it’s inherent strength, its ability to provide lubrication whilst providing a highly conductive interface and its very high conductivity. I think it shows a real lack of intellectual honesty to write-off graphene as a technology just because you disagree with the merit on one audio-tweak product that at this stage you have no experience with.
The fact that industry giants are investing billions in developing and investigating graphene worldwide makes your comments look like a cheap shot and on top of that makes them look lame as they deliberately ignore the facts.