Trying to find someone with a cable cooker in Metro NY

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?

I know Alan and watched him do it. The cables were burned in on at least one machine for a couple of days. Cables and cords were by Jena Labs and the dude from NSA or whatever.

That means that such devices exist and there is, if I remember correctly, two people on this thread who have seen one. Not counting the person who constructed his own.