Trying to find someone with a cable cooker in Metro NY

I will explain it anyway. The reason I mentioned Hydrogen is because a lot of people believe that the home freezer at -10 F or whatever is not sufficiently cold 🥶 to be effective OR permanent for audio related stuff. So, the question is, if the home freezer isn’t cold enough to be effective or permanent how low does the temperature have to be? Some people say just put some dry ice in the freezer to bring the temp down to -70 F or whatever. Is that cold enough? Or is - 300 F nitrogen cryo cooler required? If so, then the question is, is even colder better than liquid nitrogen? In the high stakes game of high end audio one can’t help wondering why nobody is using Hydrogen cryo coolers at -423 F. Are they not available? Are they too dangerous? It all comes down to what I intimated earlier - that the physical changes produced by these thermodynamic processes are NOT (rpt NOT) responsible for most or all of the sonic benefits.

insearchofprat,

"I would think this could be the Big Holiday Gift (LOL!) for the person who has everything and knows everything..."

This is a fabulous description. It gets to the bottom of existence of cable cookers and similar machines/devices/tweaks.

At the same time, if it is only $1000, I am surprised that you did not get any good-natured no-money-involved offer to try. This is the underworld where people talk about $5000 cables and $3000 phono cartridges as if they are a bargain. If this disputed cable cooker works, even slightly, it would be one of the cheapest things in/around some moderately serious audiophile’s music reproduction system. Where are they? What happened? How many people on this thread have actually seen one? Is it a Nessie in audiophile fog? Talked about, disputed, sworn it was there, but in reality missing in action.

I am not sure how it applies to any theory here, but in food preparation if you freeze something and then cook it, it is cooked. It seems that people, in general, agree that things taste better when they have not been frozen before. Fried ice-cream comes as close as I can think of to this "cryo treatment before cable cooker" procedure. Thankfully, many people like fried ice-cream so there may be something to sticking wires in the refrigerator before cooking them.

The fabulous system I was invited to participate in at the Tuscany Hotel in Vegas in 2002 used the Cable Cooker to burn in all the high end cabling just prior to the show. Now, whether that was responsible for the system getting Best of Show is anybody’s guess but it probably didn’t hurt. 🤡 Know what I mean Jelly Bean?

geoffkait,

Have you seen the actual machine, or you were told it had been done?