Freezer Cryoed Cables...

Jjmali,

You made me laugh so hard I had a seizure.

Stop that,

I have to admit that about 15 years ago, I put a B&K amp in the refrigerator for a few days (wrapped in plastic of course). I let it sit at room temp for a day before hooking it up. I have to admit that the sound did change for a few days, but it did revert back to its original sound. I think it had something to do with the grease in the caps.

As far as freezing cables goes, there might be a short term change in sound. Maybe, it effects the dialectic in the jacket. I doubt that it's a long term change. A lot of tweeks in this hobby escape explination.

Enjoy,

Is there any downside to freezing caps? Could it effect the grease in them? Those with electrical experience please chime in.

Thanks,

Tireguy,

Patrick has a cryo unit right next to the freezer. He has compared CD's, both cryoed and frozen, through his high resolution system consisting of a vintage Sony receiver, sound dynamics speakers and a Bravo DVD player.

Quote of Richard from hometheatertalk.com:

"Scott, I have a vintage sony str-v5 receiver with Walker Audio: super silver treatment on everything inside, some Sound Dynamics rts 9 speakers with gr-research gr-t2 tweeters and Sonicaps caps with super silver treatment, Bravo D2 DVD player with super silver treatment on everything inside, Dakiom feedback stabilizers with super silver treatment, hook up to everything, Mi-Rollers under everything"

This system is hardly "hi-end". The Bravo D2 DVD player has gotten ripped, both here and in the press, for it's incredible bad sonic performance. IMO, Sound Dynamics speakers are mid-fi at best.

In addition, on www.hometheatertalk.com, you indicated that you took apart you speakers and froze the drivers. This can not be good for the rubber surrounds.

Richard, I do believe that you are here differences after freezing your equipment. The constant temperature changes have got to be doing a lot of damage to it.

Also, on www.hometheatertalk.com, you said that the equipment doesn't matter and that you could achieve "hi-end" performance from tweaks alone. IMO, you can spend the rest of your life tweaking your equipment, but its going to take a lot of tweaking, a whole lot of tweaking, to get this system up to "high-end" standards. It would be cheaper and easier to just go out and buy some better equipment.

I agree with Slap Happy Pappy. For now on, you will be know here as Thick Skinned Richard.

Too 1960's Batman.