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79 bucks. How much for the other lube?
79 bucks. How much for the other lube?
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
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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@oregonpapa Maybe so. I did a thorough cleaning of GE 12AU7 which are the signal tubes on my amp. Finally, cleaning with alcohol, wiping carefully with Q-tips and brushing with a soft metal brush, but also cleaning with small dental brush inside the tubes sockets, finally I got rid of this crackling. I don’t know if I will apply TC again on it. I really wanted to be able to use these GE tubes again, vastly superior to the OEM Electro Harmonix Gold, so now that they are fine again I’m not sure to re-dux the whole process. I don't get exactly what went wrong, since the second time I applied TC on the first 1/4-th of the pins length. No prob with KT120 power tubes though. Had first a return from Tim Mrock, then no words from him. |
This Total contact is amazing! I didn’t know how how far a tube would go , so I bought way too many! I think I have six extra kits! If you know anyone who needs one or two, I’m selling them at a discount. I used it on power cords, speaker cables and inter connects with incredible results.you can email me at macez101@aol.com |
kantx ... That’s why I asked if you were using tubes or SS. I had the same problem with the first incarnation of TC after I did the tube pins. The problem was with one tube in the line stage. I tried everything to solve the problem. I had extra tubes and selected a good one, then did as Geoff suggested and only pasted about half way up the pins. That solved the problem. No problems since and that was two years ago. All of my tube pins are pasted throughout the system at this point and the sound is wonderful. Frank |
Sometimes the problem is on the bottom glass portion of the tube or the surface of the tube socket. Clean with alcohol. When contact enhancer is applied too liberally or too far up the tube pins the material can get squeezed onto the glass and or the tube socket when the tube is pushed back into the socket. |
Yesterday my SACD player disc tray got stuck and stayed stuck. I finally watched some YouTube repair videos and it is either a worn belt or a worn drive gear. Hopefully fixable at the one repair shop still in my town. Got out the backup CD player not used in years. Upgraded it with an application of Total Contact to snap together pin connectors, capacitors, transistors, power cable input, interconnect output connectors, and grounding wires to the chassis. About 75 parts total. Fuses are the old soldered in type so not replaceable with Synergistic Research (SR) Blue fuses. So instead put SR ECT's (Electronic Circuit Transducers) on top of each of the 6 fuses. Also added ECT's at the power inlet and to the audio output connectors. A total of 10 ECT's. Have been running the unit on continuous play since installing into the system. After 10 hours it is already sounding very nice. No digititis!. The sound is relaxed, no noticeable grain, with a nice soundstage. The sound should get better over the next 14 days. In my opinion, the combination of Total Contact and the Synergistic Research ECT's is a major upgrade to components such as a CD player. I will welcome the New Year with wonderful music. David Pritchard |
Guyz ... This thread was started exactly one year ago to the day. Merry Christmas to all of you TC paster’s and Omega E Matter’s out there, and a special thanks to Tim Mrock and his wife Krissy for bringing us these game-changing products. They have opened up our musical enjoyment beyond what we thought was ever possible. Frank |
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kantx ... Here you go: https://www.audiogon.com/brands/perfect-path-technologies Forget the other stuff. Frank |
Discovering this thread. Never could find any place where to buy Total Contact… Only found this other product : http://madscientist-audio.com/presta/graphene-contact-enhancer/57-graphene-contact-enhancer-2ml-tube... So, where is Mrock ? |
Yesterday I turned my attention to the headphone system’s Maranz SACD player. It already has been treated with 11 Synergistic Research ECT’s, and 6 SR Blue fuses. Of course each fuse checked for optimal direction 😊. The player has two E-Mats on top of the player. Using the TotalContact product, I painted the tops of approximately 70 capacitors and transistors. It was interesting to hear the major changes in sound over the first 10 minutes after the application. Two hours latter there was a definite improvement in the 3D aspect of the sound. Overall the sound was neither darker or brighter just better. This was a most positive experiment. David Pritchard |
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Yesterday my system reached the 14 day mark after treating the crossover networks of the speakers and putting E-Mats inside the speakers underneath the crossovers. This is a very worthwhile upgrade to your speakers. Later yesterday I replaced the Synergistic Research Red wall outlet with a Synergistic Research Black outlet. This outlet is on the same circuit as my sound system but has nothing plugged into it. There was a significant improvement in the sound. Especially the 3-D aspects of the soundstage. David Pritchard |
^^^ Pasting the crossovers allowed for a very nice jump in SQ. For some reason, TC has a way of initially degrading the sound (in my system) in one way or another. That held true with the crossovers. It takes a day or so to settle in ... and then everything that was enjoyable returns, except it returns even better than before. As marqmike noted above, it continues to improve over time. Last night’s listening session with my friend Robert was pretty darned cool. Robert dug deep into his vast record stash and came up with almost an entire collection of mint copies of Les Baxter and Arthur Lyman LPs. Now that the TC pasting of the power conditioner, the crossovers, and the signal tubes have all settled in, these records are an audiophile’s delight. Drums, birdcalls, vibes, marimbas, all spread across the room, jumping out in front of the speakers and way back to the rear wall. Amazing sound and musically cool too. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313.TR5.TRC0.A0.H0.Xles+baxter... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1312.R1.TR11.TRC3.A0.H0.Xarth.T... Be sure to look for the stereo copies. Frank |
It is now 11 days since I treated my speaker's crossover networks with Total Contact. As each network is mounted on a board and sits on the bottom floor of the speaker cabinet, I also put an E - Mat underneath each crossover network. The sonic improvement is quite satisfying. There is a relaxed feel to the music, but the emotional content is not diminished, but is increased. Simply put it is just more fun to listen to the music. David Pritchard |
I pasted about 4 weeks ago. The initial few days it caused me to think, 'hey this is really nice' and 'I cannot believe what it does'. As time went on I was enjoying the upgrade a lot on my system. Then a few days ago I go' Whaaat', 'how can this do what it does?'. I think it turned my very good solid state system to sounding like it has the great qualities of tubes added to it. I have noticeably more transparency along with more body and articulation and dynamics. There is no downside as far as I can tell. I have to agree with what most everyone says about how good this stuff is. |
For the not so faint of heart ... So, five days ago, I pasted all of the glass portions of my small signal tubes with TC. Initially, it degraded the sound. What was a totally involving musical experience, became musically uninteresting. The next day, everything returned in spades and was more enjoyable than ever. I just cannot get over how low noise the system is now. So seamless, so transparent, so holographic, so real ... and so enjoyable. And, I still have all of the switches inside of the circuit breaker box to do. Frank |
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Two days ago I applied Total Contact to the last major piece of equipment in my system- the crossover networks for my 3 way horn speakers. TC was applied to 40 wire connections, the bodies of 8 capacitors and 2 resistors. I then placed E Mats underneath the wood blocks the crossover networks are mounted on. Project took about 3 hours from the time the first speaker was removed to get access to a crossover to everything reinstalled and ready to turn the amplifier back on. Immediate first listen was interesting in the amount of sonic change heard. Dynamics were increased , blackness was increased, imaging was less precise. Relisten at 24 hours using the same music the imaging was now precise with a sense of relaxed blackness between the instruments. Instrument timbre was correct and rich in nature. Vocals were more alive. Even after previously treating my electrical panel, wall outlets, cables, and amplifier with Total Contact, I was estatic with the further improvement my system has obtained. David Pritchard 575-644-1462 |
Every time I think my system is "fully optimized" it gets more optimized by another tweak ... especially with TC and the Omega E Mats. Example: I've had two E Mats in my outside circuit breaker box for a long time now. I had completely forgotten about a small secondary circuit breaker in the master bedroom closet. So ... I put another mat in there and Walla! Another drop in noise, and more enjoyment from the music presentations. I can hardly wait for the next "optimization." :-) Frank |
celander626 posts I don't think TC would work in systems already fully optimized. >>>>Obviously, the alternative reason, and the most likely one, is the system for which the contact enhancer doesn’t work has severe problems. Who knows what problems? I’ve been to the big shows. After a couple hours nobody knows what the hell they’re listening to. And those are the industry pros. Besides, there is no such thing as a fully optimized system. It’s a never ending mission. There’s not enough time left. If you could hear what I’ve heard with my ears. An ordinary man has no means of deliverance. |
@1markr Hi. The best practice is to inspect the connection, and any areas that are missing TC, lightly touch up those areas. <3 That's really the best way. <3 If a connection is left long enough so it's fully polymerized or dried, it's very tough and may not need touch up at all. This is typically about 3 months. Hope you enjoy the enhancer! <3 Please call Timmy with any questions you have. <3 He loves to talk to customers! Best, Krissy |