Audiodharma Cable Cooker anyone share experiences?

Bob......some corrections to your statement.

I don't know where Mr. Brisson obtained his information, but the Cable Cooker does NOT put out *any* DC component in its multiplex signal. Period. The Cooker puts out a high-voltage, high-current, steady-state signal in addition to a swept square wave covering the audio band.

It may be that the capacitors in the MIT boxes are shorting the Cable Cooker at higher frequencies, causing the Cooker's power supply to immediately shut off. This is a built-in safety feature of the power supply. If it sees something it doesn't like (like a current or voltage aberration), it shuts off. Also, there would be NO damage whatsoever to the cabling.

Two Cooker customers had this occur to their MIT cabling. The LED's on the Cooker "blinked", as the unit simply didn't operate. They reinstalled the cabling into their systems and everything worked just fine. Unfortunately, no further conditioning could take place. Owners of Transparent cabling have no problem with the Cooker, nor does the Cooker have any problem conditioning Transparent Audio cabling. The LCR networks seem to benefit from Cooking, as do the cables.

alan m. kafton

Highly reccommened !!!. I have been burning in Cables for a few days now on my new Cable Cooker.

I own Acoustic Zen Silver,HMS,Zu,Electraglide Signature, Kimber Select and various other interconnects.
I have also burned in Power Cords from Electraglide Fatboy, Zu, Synergistic, JPS,Whale Elite.

All of these cables were burned in for 24 hours and the difference is night and day ...Outstanding!!!

Just for the heck of it I also burned in some RG6 cable for my Sattelite and Cable and the Picture quality is like I added a Amplifier !!!
I am really impressed !

Oz very interesting - never occurred to me that coax could be enhanced!
Alan I must have had the Dharma confused with DuoTech - that's apparently the one that kills MIT cables. I know he wasn't referring to the Nordost unit, although that might present complications as well (or not?).

The Audiodharma is one of those "components" that I would suggest everyone own. I was impressed, greatly... I now make cooking standard on some Virtual Dynamics products. Do yourself a favour, take the leap, this is one of those improvements "anyone" would call dramatic and be able to hear the obvious difference. I invested in one and have heard the result! I now understand there is no other way to get optimal performance from a cable. Expect more, you will not be disapointed. Great job Alan!

Rick Schultz

Thanks for the clarification, Bob. I recently had a chance to analyze the DuoTech with the Cooker's circuit designer. I've been wanting to do this for a couple of years. We found a very strange multi-square wave being produced, that looked like sharp "hash" on the scope. While we didn't put a great deal of time into it, the signal appeared to have three distinct square waves but couldn't nail them down individually without dismantling the unit. The voltage also seemed to sag when a speaker load was placed on it. Speaker cable break-in is accomplished via 2 small rectangular modules that plug into RCA's on either side of the main unit. It seems that the same circuit conditions both interconnects and speaker cabling.

There was little current to speak of, as the the DC wall wart powering the unit was only rated 500 mA. That's about it, other than a comment that the signal didn't appear to be very efficient or powerful.