My experience is pretty much the opposite of Peter's above for what it's worth.
I've cryoed entire components, but mostly very cheap units as "experiments". Results were mixed: one DVD player seemed to benefit much more from treatment than another, but both were very cheap players and are no longer around.
There's also much more potential for damage with thermal shock with entire components due to the much larger numbers of dissimilar materials.
I would highly recommend treatment of all cables (power, IC and speaker) and receptacles with one caveat. If you are going to treat all cabling at once, I would strongly suggest you seek out some kind of cable cooking device like the Audiodharma or Nordost and have everything burned in post cryo.
If you don't be prepared for a fairly lengthy and nasty burn-in process that may take as much as 30-45 days and with all cabling done at once and reinserted into a system, the cumulative effects of cryo without burn-in will be quite nasty.
Receptacles may be burned in on something like the Audiodharma; alternatively, two or three weeks on a household appliance with a strong current draw, particularly with a compressor that kicks in like a refrigerator or chest freezer, using both halves of the receptacle, should get you most of the way there.
In my experience, movement or bending of the cables has not diminished the effects of cryo (I've had every receptacle that my system draws from, including those in my line conditioner, as well as every cable in the system treated and most have been in use since treatment for 7-10 years plus), nor should it. All scientific evidence points to a molecular change that is permanent.
I've cryoed entire components, but mostly very cheap units as "experiments". Results were mixed: one DVD player seemed to benefit much more from treatment than another, but both were very cheap players and are no longer around.
There's also much more potential for damage with thermal shock with entire components due to the much larger numbers of dissimilar materials.
I would highly recommend treatment of all cables (power, IC and speaker) and receptacles with one caveat. If you are going to treat all cabling at once, I would strongly suggest you seek out some kind of cable cooking device like the Audiodharma or Nordost and have everything burned in post cryo.
If you don't be prepared for a fairly lengthy and nasty burn-in process that may take as much as 30-45 days and with all cabling done at once and reinserted into a system, the cumulative effects of cryo without burn-in will be quite nasty.
Receptacles may be burned in on something like the Audiodharma; alternatively, two or three weeks on a household appliance with a strong current draw, particularly with a compressor that kicks in like a refrigerator or chest freezer, using both halves of the receptacle, should get you most of the way there.
In my experience, movement or bending of the cables has not diminished the effects of cryo (I've had every receptacle that my system draws from, including those in my line conditioner, as well as every cable in the system treated and most have been in use since treatment for 7-10 years plus), nor should it. All scientific evidence points to a molecular change that is permanent.