Any experience with cryo'ed cables / IC'S ?

Thanks Bradz, I really appreciate your kind words! It looks like you're putting together a great setup, that Cary is a nice piece.

Actually, my goal when ordering was to swap out the AP9s for the Auditions first and compare just speaker cables, but that never happened. I had a single run pair of AP9s for sale on Audiogon and was using a biwired pair while waiting for the Virtual Dynamics to arrive. A fellow Audiogoner whom I dealt with before asked me if I had a biwired set available. I ended up selling both sets before the Auditions arrived so I couldn't make a direct comparison, and I didn't even have music for three weeks! However, once the Auditions arrived I did swap in only the speaker cables for a distant memory comparison, and my impression was that the Virtual Dynamics were both more resolving and smoother than the AP9s. This also happened two months ago, so I know that there's very little reliability here.

You might want to try putting the Power 3 on your amp for faster burn-in after you've had an inital listening session with it on your Cary of course. Hopefully, you'll end up liking it as much as a lot of us do. Good luck and let us know how it works out.

I've since also bought a power 2 cryo and am wondering how it differs from the power 3. Would the power 2 be better on the amp and the power 3 on my cdp or is it a matter of experimentation?

Bradz, try giving Rick Schultz a call, he's a great guy. In past conversations he's told me that if he had to skimp anywhere it would be on the amp. So I guess the place to put the better cord would be on the source, but question is which is the better cord. Power 2 or 3? I believe the Power 2 has a higher level of filtering so you might want to think about placing it on the Cary. Best thing is to experiment with different placement once they're both burned in.

Thanks Gunbei. Sounds like good advice. I'll give Rick a call to see what he recommends. The power 2 is cryo'd but the power 3 is not. My guess too is that the Cary would benefit more with the power 2. I'll let you know my results!