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In Reply to: Are we taking things alittle to far! posted by NEAR SOTA on November 23, 2002 at 11:42:56:
I am assuming its a cold soak of some kind?? Please fill me in.
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Cryogenicly treated Cables.What people are doing is sending their cables to labs that use either Liquid Oygen or Nitrogen to freeze their Cables which is suppose to improve the structure of the conductors and help in the transfer of electrons which inturn improves the quality of the playback.
Not as cold as liquid nitrogen but, its getting close. Discharge a CO2 extinguisher into a cooler with one of your cables inside, or interconnects. Pick your soak time but anything over a couple minutes will be meaningless due to the very low thermal mass of a cable (or any electronic part for that matter). Your cable will see approx. -110 degrees F during the blast. Not as cold as LN2 but close. Afterwards clean it up and try it. Or repeat the process.My opinion is that you will not hear a difference. Cryogenic treatments have more of an effect on alloys than pure metals. And even them I doubt it will make an audible change. Nevertheless the intent of this message is not to debate its merits.
If you don't think -110 degrees is cold enough then visit your local industrial welding store and buy some LN2. As one inmate stated, it is not expensive.
I have acess to a 10,000 Lb tank of N2. We do a lot of hi vac where I work. Sounds like a business oportunity to me. What do they charge for this??? I can charge $100 for a pair and be inexpensive compared to the other guys!! Im in!!! Think I will try my own first to make sure the insulation survives the plunge. Why not use dry ice?? Not cold enough??If it really makes a diference any of the cable manufacturer's doing wire reels in bulk?? Any military applications doing this?? Any research groups doing this??
temp cool down and warm up slowly with a computer controling the process etc.......
You can expose materials to those temperatures without some kind of gradual ramp in temperature both ways. You also need to do testing to verify that your process is not destructive.
in google... you will say yes thanks.... otherwise, ford won't cryo their tools for nothing...
I am just trying to find out about it.Has my attention anyways!
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