Cryogenically treated cables

What's really funny is Geoffy's favorite directional wire manufacturer, Audioquest, does not use cryo treatment. 😏

P.S. Autocorrect made that "directional wife manufacturer" 😂

Actually, Jay Jay, AudioQuest’s explanation is absurd. It sounds like something you would say. Oh, well, nobody is expected to be great at everything.

Advice to all AudioQuest users - send cables off to the cryo lab immediately if not sooner! I cryo’d my AudioQuest Truth interconnects and they were far better after cryo.

“This is an old technology that has proven itself for certain metals when utilized in certain conditions (it’s standard in high-performance race engines). Unfortunately, its efficacy for audio products is inconsistent. We have found that many have over-used this and many other popular modifications and treatments. The idea that, “if it works here, certainly it will work everywhere,” is simply not true. In fact, this treatment can seriously damage many materials such as the polymers used in many audio, video, digital, and filtering components. Cryogenic treatment is typically -300° Fahrenheit, and, in a way, is the reciprocal of high heat (flame forging). Either technique could help a knife, but would you subject a piece of plastic or polymer to a flame? Cryo is no better.”

@geoffkait 
Actually it's not something I would say, as I don't agree with them. I just found it ironic that your seemingly favorite wire manufacturer thinks so.

Oh come on geoff, you must have been exposed to thermal analysis for cold temperatures in your Nasa days? I know I certainly had to do some crash course schoolin when I had to put something in space.

Space is of course much worse due to rapid heat/cooling, but at cryo temps, you are going to induce microfractures (feel free to Google), and can break bonds between dissimilar materials ...not to mention no guarantee of changing properties for good or bad.

The quote above is nonsense. But especially this bit

Cryogenic treatment is typically -300° Fahrenheit, and, in a way, is the reciprocal of high heat (flame forging). Either technique could help a knife, but would you subject a piece of plastic or polymer to a flame? Cryo is no better.

Right. To subject a piece of plastic to cryo is no better than to subject it to high heat flame forging. A dazzling display of logic, as Spock might have said. Or the Red Queen.

No one in their right mind would subject a piece of plastic to cryo!

Oh wait, what’s this?

Oh, its just a stack of CDs I had cryo’d.

Oh wait, what’s this???

Oh, just a whole CD player I had cryo’d.

So....

Right. The quote above is nonsense. Cryo is not like flame forging. In fact it is the furthest thing from it. Might not be the silliest post ever, but will give a lot a run for their money.