Do cold temperatures damage audio equipment?


One would shudder at the thought of placing a $3000 CD player or amplifier in the freezer for a couple of days. I would think that they would never be the same again.

Isn't that what we do when we ship equipment in cold weather? Sometimes it's colder outside than in my freezer.
peet

Showing 1 response by consttraveler

I've found both of the above comments to be correct. Last year I moved from Alaska in the dead of winter. The temperature was -15 F when everything was packed into a steel box which went by barge to Seattle, then trucked to up-state New York.

All of the components were given a day in their new home to thaw, I checked closely for condensation, plugged them in, and had no problems.

Dave