Audio Tweak gone bad...similar experiences?

I feel that in the interest of the 'brotherhood of man' I must divulge,without concern for my self interest,i.e 'profit',that I have found the most 'awe'some tweak yet.I have cryoed some conch shells that have been laying around in the household for years,(picked up during dives in the Keys).You would be truly amazed at the effect these things have on the sound characteristics of audio gear.I figured that since one can 'hear the ocean' in them then certainly they should be a cinch for making a mid-fi system such as mine sound much more expensive.Since not everyone lives near the ocean as I do,I would be happy to cryo some and ship them out,for a small fee to cover expenses!

I've found that the drunken penny is really the best way to go. Find a canditate of the appropriate vintage, and break it in by bathing it in pure grain alcohol for AT LEAST 24 hours. (I've found that vodka can also work well, but you'll need to break it in for at least a week if you go that route.) This way, even if you're so unfortunate to pick one with some spiteful karma, it'll at least be appeased and/or confused enough to not be aggressive. Trick is, you'll have to repeat the process approximately monthly or the little bastards can get hung over and downright mean. You really, really don't want that. It also helps to have two or three in the bath, more or less all the time. That way you can rotate one out at a time and always have a couple of backups appropriately sauced. Also, they seem to perform better for not having to drink alone -- so having a couple of backups is not just convenient, but also the key to being a good host. Treat them right and you'll hear the difference.

Many of those 1982's were machine stamped at the Denver mint at a time when that facility was undergoing quality control problems. It seems the Mint had outsourced to a foreign copper source which had questionable links to anti-American groups abroad. Much of that copper has been determined to contain nanotechnology (even before it was developed) that disabled electronic devices of any kind and has been unknowingly introduced into any products manufactured from that metal. Anyone in posession of such coinage or other copper products is in very serious personal danger as are their electronic posessions. You probably got one of the 'sleeper' coins programmed to cause American electronic devices to self-destruct at a preordained time. You may well have discovered the initial phase of a foreign attack marking the beginning of the first wave of a sleepers awakening to begin their attack on unsuspecting Americans and our very way of life.

Fortunately, have developed a disarming device for such subversively contaminated copper which is very similar to the flux capacitor and which operates on similar principals by channeling the nanotechnological particles into a time warp and sending them to a time before copper was invented thus rendering them ineffective. I can sell you this device for a very modest $199.95 (PayPal transfers accepted). Surprisingly, it looks very much like a Timex battery clock. But don't be fooled. It has subtle proprietary modifications I am not at liberty to disclose.

you should have cryoed the penny

Your problem was that you were one penny short. Just my 2 cents..........