Trying to find someone with a cable cooker in Metro NY

" I never turn my integrated or my CD off: they are either in rest mode or playing music...

 Taking your other comments with a critical eye.

I think I'm gonna let the electrons do whatever they do...

But I am unafraid to try uncommon materials and methods:
Maybe sound is affected - just by my interior design 'intuition' of having several different types and sizes of crystals on the integrated amp, specifically (logistically?) placed above the power cord connection, and above the CD drawer... Or Maybe its my use of tennis bàlls in Tropicana Yellow Plastic Bottle Tops, for isolation with rubber and particleboard 2" squares below each equipment foot, on top of 2" Pink Insulation Foam Board. Speakers with the same isolation... My friend ( with the spectacular custom Italian speakers, All Naim electronics, top-of-the-line Luna cables, space-age-looking 200 lb turntable and rock-solid custom equipment table/rack = about a $400,000+ system) laughs at my puny wacko music maker - but it makes me happy. AND THAT TO ME IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT! "
  I think your real name is Jeff Medwin. However on to your reality. You do know all that stuff does not work right unless you have the same day of production on the plastic bottle tops. Cosmic rays vary each day and this effects plastic  while being molded so you need to date align them so they will be cosmic ray aligned for your system.  Also the tennis balls need to be the same type and manufacturer and come from the same lot number to be consistent.

  Have you tried concrete pavers on your speaker tops yet? It really dampens down erratic sonics emission from your speakers and will smooth out all the little jagged edges your sound has from cabinet resonance.

  You don't happen to have any pictures of your setup anywhere do you? I would love t see your work!!

mahlman

Thanks for the chuckles! - you had me laughing line by line... 

Who the $#%& is Jeff Merwin? Maybe he has a cable cooker I could borrow, or works in a cryo place? If you have contact info for him, I'll make the effort to contact him (and of course follow his recommendations to the letter...).

Believe that I have met most requirements as you stated - but in trying a paver on top of the CD player, it slipped and now have a jagged hole in the top (thank goodness its not a affected the tray mechanism). Cannot use pavers on top of speakers - speakers have a pyramidal shape and are difficult to balance them on top (tried shock-cording them, from top across the base - but with heavy drum solos they rock precipitatiously ). Would send pics, which would make You Chuckle - especially with the yellow tennis balls (Must Be New - and everybody knows that the Yellow ones hold the internal pressure better and longer) in the Orange Plastic Juice Container tops, on the Pink board insulation. Colorful and rather Post-Modern architectural looking (like a Portland Oregon building)... But the most important thing is IT SOUNDS REALLY GOOD!

...or at lease sounds good to me...

Back to thermal influences on food, electronic equipment, and humans.

Cable freezing, cooking, and simmering.

Most, if not all, of the things that surround us have their optimal temperature at which they perform their best. Ranges of optimal temperatures are frequently very narrow. With highly-sophisticated entities they can be within 3-4-5 degrees.

Why is there no talk about maintaining these optimal temperatures for cables, or whatever else (this thread is about Cable Cooking so let’s stay with that)? Would it not be beneficial to have some warming/cooling device that would maintain the cable’s temperature at optimum? That might be more effective than sticking a cable in the freezer for a day, two, or three just to have it warm up within a half a day that follows it.

What are the world’s greatest minds of audio reproduction doing? Where are the dealers? Where are the fans? Where are the threads on audio forums? It is 21st century. Possibilities are endless. Let’s get a little bit more sophisticated and caring than this stone-age approach of sticking a cable in ice. Cable that goes through the tube filled with fluid at constant/optimal temperature. That is what we need, Cable Simmerers, not Cable Cookers and freezers.

Well, of course, we do need to discuss what the optimal fluid for this application might be.

You missed your calling, glubson. You should have been a writer for the Pee Wee Herman Show. 🚴‍♂️

Moving right along, after such good luck with cables, what else can we freeze and get a boost in performance? 🥶 The answer may surprise you. 🤭 I have more tricks up my sleeve that The Amazing Randi 🐇 🐇 🐇