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| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? Mceljo - It's certainly understandable that one cannot conceive how Cryo-records could make a difference. I suspect until one actually tries these things for himself, in his own system, with his own ears, the preposterous nature of things like cry... | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? Mceljo, of course it's true there is such a thing as the placebo effect, who would disagree with that? But the placebo effect can be rather eliminated as a cause of the effect through careful listening tests. After all, if the placebo effect could... | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? Well, the best answer to your questions is that the cryo process must work on LPs since they do sound better afterwards. Folks question cryo for wires, CDs, tonearms, electron tubes, CD players and cross-over networks, too. | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? The cryo process doesn't actually result in compressing the atoms of the material - the atoms compress during the freeze cycle then expand during the thaw cycle. The result is a more homogenous arrangement of the atoms. The stress relief aspect of... | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? Of course, it should be pointed out those who doubt the whole cryo thing never are the ones to provide measureable data. That would be too, uh, contradictory. :-) | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? The only thing that I can think of would be that a cryo-treated LP would somehow resist vibration better, but generally a more uniform material will resist vibration less.Bingo! The same with metals, e.g., why a steel rod will vibrate or ring less... | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? "Geoffkait - Unless cryo treating changes the physical shape of an LP then it should sound identical."It doesn't change the physical shape of an LP any more than it changes the color. Cryo treatment doesn't change the physical shape of brass, silv... | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? Mceljo -The process reduces stress in the materials and makes them more homogeneous; thus, a cryo'd brass trumpet sounds better, a cryo'd golf club hits the ball farther, a cryo'd LP, well, it just sounds better. I was one of the first in the US t... | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? Uh, noone said it improves all known materials. But it's very well documented that it improves, steel, brass, silver, gold, aluminum, copper and plastics like vinyl, polycarbonate and telfon, you know, things of that nature. | |
| Cryogenic treatment of an LP? Cold fusion is slightly superior to cryogenics. | |
| vibration control An electromagnetic field is subject to a number of things, including as you suspect, static electric fields. But we have learned that the electromagnetic field - the audio signal carried through wires and cables is also subject to magnetic interfe... | |
| vibration control It seems pretty clear than any wire or cable or electronic element such as a capacitor or resistor is subject to vibration. Tonearms and cartridges as well as the platters of turntables are also subject to vibration, since they resonate at their n... | |
| Are there any albums you consider perfect? Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed and Clash's London Calling. | |
| Vibration Theory - Isolate or Drain? I'm not referring to damping the capacitor, I'm referring to isolating the component from structureborne vibration. So I suppose one could say your argument is a bit of a strawman, if you know what I mean. Furthermore, most of the energy in the co... | |
| Vibration Theory - Isolate or Drain? The problem is all frequencies are coming up from the floor to the component, not just selected frequencies. Of particular importance, obviously, are frequencies in the range 8-15 Hz, the resonant frequencies of such things as tonearms, cartridges... |