The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered

j-wall-

the cryo thing for tubes, cables and whatever  unfortunately is just another YMMV, subjective thread topic.

Check the archives.

I am relaxed. I’m as mellow as jello.

No need to point out to me the gist of the article.

Still doesn’t have anything to do with cryogenically treating anything, which is the implication you’re alluding to. None the less, an interesting article.

Just not for the reason you started this thread. I know my response seems curt and blunt. I’m feeling minimalist today and it’s carrying over to my writing style.

Perhaps a joke to lighten the mood;

What’s green and sings?

Elvis Parsley! 😆

@thecarpathian essentially freezing an item has to do with the way electrons flow through the item. That's exactly the point. I'm not a +60 year old audiophile like most here, so I found this article about metallurgy and freezing an item to have a scientific approach over an old "I heard a difference" to be interesting and engaging. All I'm saying is cryogenics seems to beginning to have an understand and could be interesting to see what happens for the future of Hifi. No need to come for someone who's interested in progress. 

j, I am not coming after you. I’m explaining that cooling a metal to the point that it makes it a better conductor while it is in that state of temperature has been going on for decades. It’s nothing new or cutting edge. It’s the entire premise of superconductors.

It only conducts like that at those extreme temperatures. It doesn't translate over to our room temperature systems.

Now, if you’re thinking is that cryogenically treating a metal somehow changes its metallurgical properties to where it makes it a better conductor at room temperature, therefore having implications to say a stereo cable, that is not at all what the article is about. Cryogenic treatment of a metal is used to harden that metal, anything after that and things get smoky. There are a lot of unsubstantiated claims made about it in the audio world. That’s it. I’m glad you found it interesting. So did I and I’m sure others will also. Thank you for sharing.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to take my Milk of Magnesia, do a push up, and cry myself to sleep.

I’d have a hard time believing studying cryogenics has been going on for decades. Possibly metalurgy, but not cryogenics. But you honestly believe that nothing new or cutting edge is in a scientific journal? A hifi website and a guy has already been down this road? I’m having a hard time trusting that one.

And going back to the article, what it is about electrons working like water at extreme temperatures ie freezing. To claim that those interactions don’t occur unless frozen is not what the article claims, that’s your claim. I don’t claim to fully understand their findings, but you claiming that you understand how electrons work under different circumstances is more farfetched than a scientific journal from some of the top researchers in the field.