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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oh Geoff you ass ume everyone else is ignorant..We made our own mats years ago that address many issues no others ever did or have since. I treated my entire PS audio transport tray and laser housing long ago with paint and AVM

>>Mats are exactly not (rpt not) what I’m talking about. Don’t you read comprehensively? Still no answer on the subject of the invisible light. I guess you decided to ignore the question. The AVM stuff is irrelevant as it doesn’t address scattered light.

If the laser is ever so slightly out of alignment or focus their will be refraction of that light ..Are the pits on the disc optically perfect in shape? Will a scratch on the disc not refract light? You understand refraction the same way you don’t understand shear waves in solids. Just forget IT.

No need for anger. We all understand your shear waves. 🙄 I don’t scratch my discs. Besides, that’s a silly argument since the whole issue involves light reflection not refraction. It’s the reflected scattered light that gets into the photodetector. It’s reflected light inside the transport that makes it glow red. Duh!
Back to the Total Contact experience..

Yesterday while listening and enjoying great sound I was trying to describe what I was in the midst of.  The sound was emanating into a real acoustic space as if the notes were coming from real instruments in a music hall.  Imagine one note being launched from a single point but as soon as it leaves the instrument in total focus it becomes spherical in shape and the content of air around that single note fills the room. Now image the content of a whole selection of music containing those point sources that are nearly 360 degrees round of the real event..For now that is my best and most accurate description.Tom
theaudiotweak wrote,

”The tray assembly and surrounding parts have been treated for years. My comments were to color not just the tray but all the other surfaces that refract light. The whole damn innards of the chassis if possible.”

>>>>>Tom, no offense but you are confusing the terms diffraction, refraction and reflection. Refraction occurs when light passes through a different medium such as when light passes from air through glass. Diffraction occurs when light strikes a slit or sharp obstacle such as a diffraction grating. Reflection occurs when light strikes a flat surface such as a mirror or when the CD laser strikes the flat metal layer of the CD. It’s the reflected light that enters the photodetector. Obviously it’s a little more complicated with the pits and lands. The CD red/infrared laser undergoes refraction passing through the CD polycarbonate layer, and changes wavelength, the light changes back to its original wavelength when it leaves the polycarbonate and reenters the air.

You still haven’t answered the fundamental question - what about the invisible light? You can paint the entire CD player turquoise and the majority of the CD laser scattered will not (rpt not) be absorbed by the turquoise color. It’s invisible!
  I am interested in this product but will probably hold off until I hear from some of the others who have tried it.
Treated the AC plugs of my CD transport, DAC and amp last night (pre is passive), and am enjoying the fruit. As I said previously, the three words I would use to describe my experience so far with TC are: transparency, clarity and musicality.