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RE: Questionable Cable Choices

Posted by stehno (M) on January 22, 2015 at 22:56:25

In Reply to: Questionable Cable Choices posted by thebordas on January 22, 2015 at 17:27:10:

That's interesting because my only experience with MIT and Transparent cables were listening to others' systems at shows or dealer showroom where the cabling was in the $25k - $35k range and the entire systems were in the $150k -$300k range and I don't recall a single one of those systems that sounded musical in the least.

I've never tried MIT nor Transparent in my own system, nor really have any desire to. But I have owned a number of ic's ranging from $25 to $3500 per pair but my most musical ic's that I've settled on are a $300 pair of 8 year old BPT cryo'ed silver ic's that sat in my closet for 7 years because they couldn't quite match the musicality of my various copper ic's I had double-cryo'ed via the vapor method.

But last year, on a hunch I had a company known for their complete immersion cryo'ing method that takes the object down to liquid nitrogen's boiling point of -320.4 degrees F, treat these and eventually all my ic's and sc's, and ever since the silver BPT ic's have been my ic's of choice.

Though I've owned or auditioned numerous speaker cables over the years, my sc's of choice for 9 years now remain the Audio Tekne's which I had double-cryo'ed via the vapor method 9 years ago and last year were cryo'ed via the full-immersion method.

But to say only 2 cable mfg'ers are addressing real world problems (both of whom I think don't cryo-treat their cables like many mfg'ers do even though many may not advertise it), seems a bit closed minded IMO.

I've been sold on the sonic benefits of cryo-treating, both vapor but especially the full-immersion method for 11 years now for most everything electrical (even my Romex for the 4 dedicated lines is cryo-treated).

So much so, that I would take a well-constructed $300 pair of properly cryo'ed ic's over a $10k or $20k pair ic's not cryo'ed.

And not think twice about it. Unless of course I had the option to sell the $10k or $20k ic's for the money and use a tiny portion of the proceeds to purchase a well-constructed $300 pair of ic's properly cryo'ed.

Edits: 01/22/15

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