For for those who have the Audiodharma Cable Cooker or any other commercial cable cooker: have you tried to find out what kind of signal is going through the cables? Even if you're not a DIY person, you can clamp a cheap full range speaker/driver (dont use a tweeter!) to the speaker or RCA jacks. I suspect a frequency generator that does frequency sweeps lies at the heart of it.
If so, it would be relative easy to buy such a device (under $60 shipped on Ebay) that you can feed into a el cheapo or unused receiver/amp with analogue out (for the ICs). The frequencies can be set for IC (audio range x3 i.e. upto the 3rd harmonics of highest range you can hear AND your amp can produce it, otherwise keep it simple to, say, 25-30kHz which may be out of spec for older receivers/amps) and PC, say 30-300Hz. Female IC connectors need to be DIY with a 10k resistor as load and SC be shortened with a 5 or 10 Ohm larger resistor to close the circuit. For the PC I would recommend to "condition" all 3 wires which means including the ground wire as well if that is used (so for those who use a ground cheater or on older tube amps). Banana plugs could be used from the audio out to the plug and IEC . I am not an IEEE engineer but have vague memories of some classes that I took many decades ago.
I would like to add another component in making cables sound better. Having good experience with products from Synergistic Research, anyone tried to burn in their PC with 220V (*) or higher? Analogous with Geoffkait recommendation to home freeze components, getting a bit closer to cryogenic treatment, I wonder if simpletons like us can get a bit closer to quantum tunneling by stepping up the voltage and/or current?
(*) a simple step up transformer ($50 or less) would do the trick. You need a Shuko plug/adapter ($5) for your PC and of course, a 220V load or put two high wattage 110V lamps in series.
SR claims to use 2 million volts and it sounds (pun not intended) pretty much but any Electro Static Discharge (ESD) that we've experienced in very dry conditions or walking over carpets and then touching a doorknob or something/someone has experienced what at least 3k (upto 30k) volts must have felt with minimal current of course (anything more than 50 mA may cause a cardiac arrest).
Easier than walking over static carpet on purpose with cable in hand, one could use a simple car ignition coil module that generates 7k V for the spark plugs or even venture to 40k V with a battery driven step up high voltage generator if you know what you're doing. I have just ordered one for $10 shipped.
/Geoffkait: re the home freezer method, would repeated freezing / thawing be beneficial?
And which cryogenic treatment service would you recommend? I have a slew of DIY and high end cables that I would like to have it done.
/vinylvalet: interesting you mentioned TG Audio (I am pretty sure Bob is not there anymore but Frank is now). They (still) make a very good power distribution box that supposedly beats the well respected Weizhi PRS-6, both boxes are machined out of aluminium.
If so, it would be relative easy to buy such a device (under $60 shipped on Ebay) that you can feed into a el cheapo or unused receiver/amp with analogue out (for the ICs). The frequencies can be set for IC (audio range x3 i.e. upto the 3rd harmonics of highest range you can hear AND your amp can produce it, otherwise keep it simple to, say, 25-30kHz which may be out of spec for older receivers/amps) and PC, say 30-300Hz. Female IC connectors need to be DIY with a 10k resistor as load and SC be shortened with a 5 or 10 Ohm larger resistor to close the circuit. For the PC I would recommend to "condition" all 3 wires which means including the ground wire as well if that is used (so for those who use a ground cheater or on older tube amps). Banana plugs could be used from the audio out to the plug and IEC . I am not an IEEE engineer but have vague memories of some classes that I took many decades ago.
I would like to add another component in making cables sound better. Having good experience with products from Synergistic Research, anyone tried to burn in their PC with 220V (*) or higher? Analogous with Geoffkait recommendation to home freeze components, getting a bit closer to cryogenic treatment, I wonder if simpletons like us can get a bit closer to quantum tunneling by stepping up the voltage and/or current?
(*) a simple step up transformer ($50 or less) would do the trick. You need a Shuko plug/adapter ($5) for your PC and of course, a 220V load or put two high wattage 110V lamps in series.
SR claims to use 2 million volts and it sounds (pun not intended) pretty much but any Electro Static Discharge (ESD) that we've experienced in very dry conditions or walking over carpets and then touching a doorknob or something/someone has experienced what at least 3k (upto 30k) volts must have felt with minimal current of course (anything more than 50 mA may cause a cardiac arrest).
Easier than walking over static carpet on purpose with cable in hand, one could use a simple car ignition coil module that generates 7k V for the spark plugs or even venture to 40k V with a battery driven step up high voltage generator if you know what you're doing. I have just ordered one for $10 shipped.
/Geoffkait: re the home freezer method, would repeated freezing / thawing be beneficial?
And which cryogenic treatment service would you recommend? I have a slew of DIY and high end cables that I would like to have it done.
/vinylvalet: interesting you mentioned TG Audio (I am pretty sure Bob is not there anymore but Frank is now). They (still) make a very good power distribution box that supposedly beats the well respected Weizhi PRS-6, both boxes are machined out of aluminium.
