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Another Cryogenic Freeze Article HFNRR

Latest issue of British HiFi News Record Review has multi page article about deep cryogenic freezing of cables. Author
teams up with Townshend Audio (which sells cables) and take a batch of copper wire, deep freeze it, and then assemble various cables from it. Author was able then to compare
stock TA cables to deep freeze cables, to make a long story short he likes the deep freeze effect, and TA plans to market line of cables with cyrogenic treatment.

Mr Meitner, long time cryo advocate, also is given a page to
give his endorsement to cryo treatment.

This topic has been covered many times here and in previous articles elsewhere, I wonder why no cable company is actively marketing cables with this treatment? Some companies like Harmonic tech and Acoustic Zen use a process that modifies crystal structure of copper, but no one I know is marketing cryo treated cables.

Although many say it works, I personally am afraid to use this tweak, because it can't be undone/removed. Why are
the tweak happy cable guys not marketing this?
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albertporter
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The Purist Audio Design line of interconnect, speaker and power cables are currently, and have been cryogenically treated since 1989. Jim Aud was an early pioneer in applying this low temperature technology to audio cables.

RLS ( Radiant Light Source ) application for cable are his current "forward thinking" technology, and is often taken as lightly as the cryogenic concept was back in 1989. Surprising how long it takes for mainstream audio to embrace new technology, even when it proves of value in real world applications of listening to music.
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sugarbrie
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Stan Warren is a big believer in freezing. He told me we can all do it at home with some Dry Ice even though Dry Ice is not as cold as Cryo. He did a test with some friends at a local university near him (Oregon) who had a cryo chamber to freeze the cables. Some cables were Cryogenically frozen; some frozen in Dry Ice and some not frozen. In listening tests it was easy to figure out the cables that were not frozen at all. They could not tell any difference between the cables that were Cryo and the ones frozen in Dry Ice. So the conclusion was that Dry Ice is cold enough; the extra coldness of Cryogenic freezing is not necessary.

I believe Dry Ice is about minus 100 degrees fairenheit. Stan controls the freezing and thawing by using his home freezer as a intermediate step between room temperature both ways. Your home freezer will easily go to zero and probably colder if you turn it up some.

j_k
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I have done the cryo freeze with my AQ Diamond X3 and Diamond Extreme. Made the cables sound smoother with more "air and space". I used Liquid Nitrogen.....
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Albert, you are correct all Purist cables are Cryo treated
acording to website (can I borrow your proteus cables?). Jaica also points out some Jenna labs cables are Cryo treated, so a very few are being marketed now.

JK, please give us details of how you actually did your AQ
diamonds. Did you do this yourself, or contract out?
What steps did you take as far as gradual freeze/thaw?
Any info is appreciated.
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