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Cable Cooking/Burnin

I read this on KLE Innovations, http://kleinnovations.com/kle-innovations-klei-products/essence-gzero-ic/, and wondered what your thoughts on Cable Cooking/Burnin might be ...

Burnin/Cooking Time

We believe that the Burnin/Cooking process can be thought of as an extension/finishing of the Annealing process.

This is a practice that can dramatically/drastically improve performance and has been gaining acceptance from HiFi enthusiasts :) Usually, any listener will be able to identify a marked change/improvement in audio component performance within the first 100 or more hours of use, whether it be a cable, connector, component or loudspeaker.

Burnin/Cooking time is the process whereby electrical signal/charge gradually settles/corrects/aligns dielectric, electromagnetic, and material (metal and non-metal) issues that occur/result during the construction process. These aspects are often and usually found in Cables/Connectors and usually results in a brittle, bright, muddy, non-cohesive sound that lacks the Detail, Resolution, Timbre, PRaT, Harmonic Texture, Organicness, Naturalness, and Staging which is desired for music reproduction. Burnin/Cooking Time improves the way that signal passes through the conductors and dielectrics and it is the resulting changes in signal transmission that refines and defines the performance of the audio cables.

While it is most important to implement Burnin/Cooking Time, upon purchase, routine maintenance is always important, also. Cables/Connectors that have not been played, or left unused, for long/prolonged periods of time, may become stagnant and again require Burnin/Cooking Time.
yping
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Yping wrote,

""cryoing or freezing ANYTHING produces better sound. Even things completely unrelated to the audio system."

Maybe."

I trust you read between the lines that IF it's true, what I said, that cryoing or freezing ANYTHING is good for the sound it becomes harder and harder to attribute the reason to annealing or atomic structure reorganization or higher performance of the material in the traditional sense of the term: stronger, more ductile, harder, less brittle, etc. That is not to say these things aren't taking place. It's just that the operating mechanism is more mysterious.
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From personal experience I would suggest that gold should "NOT" be cryoed because I believe it will degenerate the sonics. That's what happened in my experimenting.
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Lak, I have the opposite results with cryoing gold.  I have cryo'd copper, silver, gold, aluminum, vinyl, plastic, ceramics, wood, brass.  All to good effect. There are some reasons why folks sometimes get negative results, not limited not waiting long enough to judge the sound after the item has been returned from the cryo lab due to the thermal shock involved that takes about a week to wear off.
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I cook my cables using an old CDP and an old 25watt integrated amp, where I can set the volume, into a 10watt 5.5R resistor using a couple of music CD's that I like for this process :)
This is how I burnin my cables, ie ensure my cables have uniform microstructure, which works for me :)

geoffkait, perhaps you can tell us how you do your home freezer method.   Especially as it is a permanent method :)
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The home freezer method is 1) place item(a) in freezer, 2) keep them in freezer for 48 hours, and 3) take item(s) out of freezer and place them in refrigerator section for 8 hours or however long it takes for the item(s) to reach the temperature of the refrigerator which is around 38-40 F. Then remove and place on a table until room temperature is reached.  If you are freezing CDs be sure and wipe off the haze that accumulates on the data side of the CD during the whole process. If you'd rather be safe than sorry repeat the entire process.  

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