Music Thing: Altmann Tube-o-Lator

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment:

Musicians and studio geeks love to laugh at audiophiles. We'll chortle as they spend $30,000 on speaker cable to reproduce sounds that started life in a $200 synth running through a $4.99 jack lead. Still, we're not totally immune to expensive snake oil, lusting after $40,000 vintage Gibson guitars or $6,000 Neve pre-amps. So there was a slight edge of interest this week when people discovered
Altmann Tube-o-Lator.
It's a classic piece of audiophile nonsense — a tiny, now out-of-production, €59 test-tube of black gunk (99.5% carbon and oxygen) which you're supposed to paint onto op-amps and A/D converters.

They claim it "electromechanically balances the resonance-spectrum of the plastic chip package and semiconductor itself" which, supposedly: "Transforms transistor sound into tube sound. Transforms cold and harsh sound into warm emotional sound." But be careful! "Experience has shown, that power transistors in certain circuit topologies CAN over-react to Altmann "Tube-o-lator" lacquer.
Over-reaction will lead to a dumb sound (that will make you feel sick), because too many overtones are filtered"

It's nonsense.

But wouldn't it be cool if it worked...