The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered

Let see you respond to that C

Does the following passage from the article give credence to the claims of hi end cable and power conditioning manufacturers?

 

The answer is NO!  Hell No!!

@glennewdick - It was the comments in the articles you linked. No evidence seem to suffice for those who are sure of "their senses".

Don't worry, I am sure a group of audiophiles will reject the science, even if it makes a clear measurable difference, and if it does not, another group will laud it and claim everyone else has bad hearing.

Did you read the comments @glennewdick ?  ... Funny, but predictable.

No they don't @petg60 , but some of us are not engineers, but material scientists. No not all materials would benefit from cryo treatment whether done right or wrong. Especially an assembly of multiple metals may not, it could quite possible destroy delicate surface features from temperature change shear of metals with different expansion expansion coefficients.

Of course, we are talking electrical properties as well, not mechanical properties. Precise alignments, diffusions, vacuums, etc. any number of things could be negatively impacted and when you are talking about the basic conductivity of a metal, small differences will be inconsequential no matter what.

Revolutionize audio ... How.

There are tradeoff w.r.t superconductivity and bandwidth. This may also not occur at room temperature and or under highly application restrictive conditions.

The common definition today is self awareness.

The soul is just a construct of those afraid to die, permanently.

If you are using a transformer for audio signals, then the least of your worries is conductivity of a wire.

Magnets are not superconductive. The conductors in electro-magnets can be, but they are not treated to create superconductivity, they need to be cooled to cryogenic temperatures to be superconductive. We are a long way still from room temperature superconductors. If you think skin effect is a problem now, try it with superconductivity.  Fixing one problem does not fix all problems. It will not fix inductance either or capacitance.

In audio, the conductivity of wires except perhaps in speaker voice coils (from another topic) is far far down on the list of issues impacting sound.  This is just grasping at straws to try to justify wrong preconceived notions.

@moonwatcher , our "experts", as communicated in the article, fully expected this result. They were never able to prove it till now.

I have no doubt it will be useful at some point in the future. I also have no doubt that it will not be in the field of audio reproduction. I also have no doubt some cable company will claim to use this effect even though it is totally untrue. I also have no doubt they will provide no proof they are actually using this effect, and I also have no doubt they will provide no proof if does anything beneficial to the sound.