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In Reply to: RE: Oyaide R1 outlet update. posted by bcowen on August 30, 2016 at 04:57:18
Hey, Bill....if you're still using the original 2.0 version, it will be 16 years old in December! I looked up your invoice. Extremely happy it's still going strong. :--}
Your "routine" as far as conditioning times is spot-on. With some variance for wire gauge and amount of dielectric materials, your conditioning times are very close to the general guidelines on my FAQ page. The greater the wire gauge & amount of dielectric material, the more Cooking a cable will need.
While I don't think that a full two weeks is necessary for a duplex, it couldn't hurt it, as the materials will need to settle in regardless. A brand-new unit, with the improved circuitry and Extended Frequency Sweep, would do a better job overall, but that's another discussion.
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Wow, so that particular Cooker is from December 2000? That's even older than ours, which is from 2003. Again, one of my biggest regrets is that the Cooker was not yet invented, when I started out in cable madness in the late-80s and early-90s. On occasion, some audiophile will send me a wire/cable from as far back as the 60s. But as far as high-end audio cables, we do receive a few from the early-90s. It turns out that, without the Cooker, we were only getting maybe 25% of what each cable was capable of. IOW, those cables weren't as bad, inaccurate, or colored as we previously had thought or assumed.Anyway, our Cooker has been in pretty much constant use, throughout its 13-year lifetime. From throwaway patchcords to car-priced models, this Cooker has treated hundreds of thousands of dollars of products and bulk wire. Now we are on to Ethernet cables, such as the AudioQuest Forest RJ/E, above.
I'm not in the business of taking away anyone's pleasure. However, even if one is happy with his untreated cables, he'd be multiple times happier, if he'd Cook his wares.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
Edits: 08/30/16 08/30/16
If only I could get my wife to cook that much for that long, all would be right with the world. :)
Alan,
You have a FAQ page? I don't remember one 16 years ago. :)
Seriously, it's hard to believe it's been that long. Guess I need to see what's new in cooking land, huh?
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