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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Geoff 

The metal topper is painted with AVM on top..so thats blue grey. The inside and lip that covers the top and surrounds the lip is painted green..I still have a few of these and the tint of green makes a subtle difference. Tom


So the green may absorb the refracted light bouncing around under the cap and case. The refracted output of 780nm becomes a different wave length when refracted and green is absorbing that newly minted wavelength? Tom
So if you can reduce and or absorb the amount of refracted light in the case then you will have fewer false positives for the error correction to mishandle and make a mountain out of a mole hill..Less correction needed the better the sound. Tom
Geoff

With all our words exchanged it seems to me that those of us who still use a cd player or a transport should consider painting the inside top lid green or any other internal chassis surface they can comfortably recolor.
Your thoughts on this color swap? I also have found that the same color with a different paint finish affects the overall sound inside a room and so I think a flat green finish will sound different than a satin or gloss finish inside a cd player.

We recently adjusted the spectral balance in one of our Energy Room’s by changing some painted wall sections that were flat to an eggshell finish. This after some different flooring was installed. Nice tweak out it was.

I have my transport lid off now as I have been using Total Contact on connections and allowing those to air dry and acclimate. Now may be a good time to paint. Tom
Geoff

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
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
Take a quaalude and a shot of grain alcohol and forget about this whole darn wild and crazy dispute thing.  Tom

I can tell you as my breaker cover has been off for 10 years so I know how it sounds by now. Need to have an electrician over so he can remove the breakers and I can treat the ends. Tom
The box is in my sound room and as I have done many times for audio guests it is a quick A/B switcharo.to remove and replace the cover. I dont need to leave the room for another and move a dresser and then the panel cover and then return to the listening space. It is a few seconds at the most. The improvement is immediate to anyone alive. Tom
So the sound stream in a audio room can never be isolated because the particle motion in every solid and in the air contained cannot be stopped. Tom
Total Contact dulls nothing.. I have the latest version the same as I understand Frank is now using and is the subject of this current thread.
Frank stated he had tested 2 previous versions that he pasted and easily removed before the application of this final version. I never heard the older versions.  The latest version I have sounds wonderful and is easy to work with. Tom
I agree with Geoff and have performed some of these applications..
Screws and nuts and bolts can also be a benefit for treatment. They act as antenae for signal to re enter the pathway creating interfering energy. This treatment benefits all metal fasteners steel, aluminum and even brass. This treatment also benefits screws and fasteners and even metallic bezel plates and screens on loudspeaker frames...Same thing a reduction of energy re entering the point of signal wave launch..less interference mingled with the intended signal. Tom
Sucks doesn't  it..A single person trying to get something for nothing..using duress as a pry tool on a hobby forum. Tom
Is there an episode of attempted extortion being played out in this public forum? Tom
Look at the photos you can see where the graphene was added on the sides and on some screws..there are other safe places it could be applied for even greater resolution.

One of the first things I applied the product was on the end caps of standard glass fuses. Made something really good out of nothing.
This product is of great value and is more than just a tool. Tom
Easy to hear improvement on my cables which are terminated wth Shadow rca's Tom
This is more than the UFO stuff you propose in your library..well actually you have products that rest on surfaces but you have not described why they work have you? Tom

Over the last several weeks myself and a few others who post here have discussed their experiences with using TC applied to materials and surfaces that are considered "not to be in the electrical conductive path" such as described and experienced by "fleschler".

While the evaluation of such applications are somewhat difficult because of the curing cycle of this product...it none the less shows promise as I heard today..I am really excited about what I saw and heard this afternoon..Yea what I saw with my mind's eye.  The surfaces I have treated are far away from anything electrical..but of course everything is conductive in some manner.
 
There are many small products that sit on the wall or hang from the ceiling that may provide a benefit to an audio experience but I have never read of any that detail why they really work. I think we are about to understand the why and the how such surface treatment and placement can better describe why different materials and shapes interact and coexist to the benefit of all in the audio community. And probably other places. More to follow...Tom






Geoff in your years of belief and copying of Peter Belt ideas and many of his products you have failed to understand why some of those actually work. Re read your notes to self and scratch the surface north of your posterior and reflect. Well you may see your true self. Tom
Yea my wife says I'm cute but no one of your age or stature has ever said so. Tom
This was posted previous and relates to the product shelf life..it is being returned to Tim for evaluation.


perfectpathtech131 posts02-21-2018 1:13pmI am pleased to make a announcement regarding longevity of Total Contact. I originally stated I would guarantee at least 6 months.

In all the years I have been making contact enhancers, I have never offered a product for sale. I always made up what I needed as I went along. I only started putting it in a syringe after a friend recommended it.

I had sent a tube to a friend many years ago, and while recently talking.
he mentioned he still had it, and it was still good. He received it from me in early March 2014. He is sending it back to me to analyze.

So it looks like 3-4 year shelf life easily.
Tim


Personally I opened my product sometime in November and have treated 2 complete stereo systems plus materials and surfaces that are conductors of shear wave interference..I still have 2/5s of the original tube and its still has the same original consistency. Tom
When TC is applied to normal everyday objects in an audio room that are not electrical in nature..and after a cure time of about 7 to 10 days you will have around you an enhanced audio experience..something new and into the mystic. Tom

nkonor

At the show Batman asked Superman to use his xray eyes to see inside speakers and equipment chassisez so as to reveal what fuse, glass or Gucci replacement may be hidden from sight.. He has not compiled the results ..Truly out of this universe would be a magnet treated with Total Contact. As for Total Contact in use, how would you know what it looks like after application as you seem to have never used any. How would you know if it was applied to something already plugged in? The application of TC when applied to internal circuitry can be an intensive labor of love not offered up as a standard consumer option...but maybe for a standout highly refined showpiece it could. Did you look?  Tom
Show me a maker who displays their parts lists and sources for those parts on the entry door of the sound room. Do they list their preference for tubes and maker at the show and hand you a print out of the tubes in use and other parts.

Both fuses and tubes are in the signal path so why would one matter and the other not? They both have a conductive filament..Fuses come well before any other device in a circuit..Fuses are maligned by some just as were power cords 20 years past. Fuses or breakers are hooked at the end of a mile long feeder cable coming into your home. An 8 gauge 5 pound power cord banging the heck out of a filament made of mostly terrible conductive material and some UFO solder how could that make an impact on anything after that fact? Would that mono filament present a bandpass or a compressive function along with noise injection on a select component on the other side? What about the differing transfer functions presented by the 3 or more materials contained in a fuse, noise may result..what about vibration of that filament?  

Pass labs does offer up info for all of their different output devices used in their many products for the consumer to evaluate. I know they use breakers on some of their products and thats very appealing.

If a vendor is using premium select parts that are not standard to their product then that modification should be stated. Tom
Geoff,

I had a method to virtually eliminate the RFI shield aspect of my conclusion. I will write a follow up post soon..Tom
All about a change in response where the compressive wave switches over to shear wave at the intersection of the plate and drywall. The treated plate becomes a speed and polarity shifter..More treatment places to follow. Tom
I painted all the shiny centers on the tops of 20 or more capacitors in my transport..Simple and easy pretty much an obvious bulls eye. Sound stage became even more coherent and much denser. One of the best returns of any of the TC applications I have performed. I had made several TC apps previous to this one in the transport ..Oh I also treated the 3 separate transformers at the same time...will flip the lids on other components soon.Tom
There are a couple of reasons for the tubes and one especially for a tin hat. You will have a change of impact if your soft in the head or a knuckle head where that head is located and what it is attached to and the results will vary and I am only kinda half joking..The real answer will bring out the flame throwers. Tom
Kenny I already did the 12 pack stack of chips of my dac tower months ago. Some simple things can make for a nice improvement for those users who are reluctant to go inside. Thats why I mentioned the caps.. Tom
Try painting the air molecules well pieces and parts that air molecules travels across. Tom
I actually have worked on a new fuse concept and when I called Littell Fuse with just a part of it..and I said I needed silver conductor and silver end caps...the dilbert on the other end of the phone asked why. My simple response of many things ..was same material coherency from end to end, low shear velocity..and it would sound better as a result..his ass blew me off...thee end ..They have no idea. Tom
Geoff I only expressed a portion of the concept and I know about the others. Adding other materials to the brew increases interfering energy..and poor mechanical integrity makes them much more directional..Go back to your shuttered room and your pig screen viewing.  Tom
Come out of your bat cave..
Why are they directional when they can be much less directional. 
Your in a 800 sq. ft. bat cave wearing your bat headphones glued to your pig screen just like fly paper and all the world at your finger tips..butt your not a part of that world are you.
Because of your recent dismissive statement my descriptive terms must have hit home in your bat cave.
The benefits of removing a polarity of shear which reduces interference can be seen with FFT..and easily heard with ears. Tom
Geoff
I didnt get a 10 th. of the way thru any disclosure. What I stated was the obvious the rest would have followed after a NDA .

Are you wearing your bat phones over top of your bat mask.You can’t go out like that..well U mite after sunset.
With a reduction in micro arcing you will also have a reduction in shear wave interference that will return to the source and become part of the signal. Tom
So what? There has been more disclosure and 1st hand reviews than any other product in recent memory. No snippets of info as on most websites, only pages of descriptions here. Save for the dilberts and know nothings wearing blinders and ear muffs. They contribute nothing.  Tom
I use Flitz polish on all my brass endpins parts I make for cello and bass. They sparkle afterwards..final cleaning of debris and polish is completed with 91 % alcohol. I also use fine bronze wool to remove the tough stuff. Steel wool particles left behind speeds tarnish advancement. Removing the tarnish on an endpin makes for a better sounding cello. Tom
Frank,

I tried an application of TC on the junction of 2 parts that screw together.
Like on audio contacts there was a period of curing that both I and the cellist could hear. After 3 weeks we liked the improvement..seemed as if there was less noise returning from the floor thru the rod and onto the strings. The player said the bow was more responsive..so to me that meant an improvement of efficiency..Both of us thought there was a cleaner sound less odd order distortion.

Many players need to remove one part from the other so just like in audio there would need to be a re application.. much more often than in an audio system.
To me the application of TC to mechanical parts confirmed what I heard in my own high fi. Lower distortion.

Always looking for an enhancement of my product line and TC could be used within a special version of my Acoustic Coupling Disc. TC in combination with other materials I now use would further reduce interfering energy.

I will soon try the Omega Mat in conjunction with this new Acoustic Coupling disc as I designed the disc to be highly reactive. While my pins and discs are pricey and then perhaps add the Omega mat to the total, not many up and coming cellists could afford this beneficial formula. Though I have had the soccer mom type make a purchase for their Johnnie or Sue to give them a much added boost for a cello competition. Tom
I tweaked one component of the cello endpin with TC..only one..well 2 that come in contact .875 in diameter. On a total component part that weighs about a pound. Very apparent difference under the ear and with the bow. A mechanical part only....this on a moderate priced cello about 15 k. Tom