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In Reply to: RE: What ever happened to cryo treated tubes? posted by TubeAcolyte on April 4, 2014 at 07:38:52:
It only took one A/B comparison for me to 'buy' into the cryo-world, a pair of cryoed TungSol 12AX7 vs. a stock pair.
The cryoed pair sounded 'better' to my ears than the stock pair, better midrange density, better soundstage depth/width, better percussive tone...my comparison was done long term, I lived with the stock tubes for 3 months, then switched to the cryoed pair for a couple months, then switched back to the stock tubes, that's when the impressions were starkly in my face.
And since Cryoset sells cryoed tubes for almost the same price of stock, to me it was a no-brainer. Now my experience is limited to small signal tubes, dunno if the hotter power tubes yields 'better' performance, never tried those.I also had a power cord cryoed, copper wire with rhodium connectors, sounded terrible imo. So maybe cryo is not for everything. Cost me $25. for that lesson.
Tube tests took place in my CAT pre line stage. Was not triple blind, double blind or even just blind...so YMWV.
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