Ha!  I'm guessing that wasn't a blind test.  How would that short piece
of wire impact audio performance?  It's connecting a household plug
socket, through the house wiring (of dubious quality if it's Inge's
house...) and the power grid...  and has a transformer on the other
side, presumably.

I'm guessing this is along the lines of the speaker wire a sales guy
tried to sell me one time.  It was 12 gage wire (overkill, but OK), but
he was very earnest in telling me that the wire was formed such that it
was optimized for electron flow in one particular direction...  

I'm thinking it's only applied to the AC power cord because anything
more complicated would not emerge functional.  Component failures aside,
what would that do to solder joints???    

regards,

Graham Collins
Process Engineer, 
L-3 Communications Electronic Systems Inc.
Halifax
(902) 873-2000 ext 6215

>>> [log in to unmask] 05/17/07 10:37PM >>>
There is a process in High End Audio which purports to enhance
equipment performance ,  called CryoTreatment. 

In this process the audio gear is subjected to a ramp down to -281F (or
cooler, but not below -320F), followed by a soak of 20 to 40 hours,
followed by a specific warm-up cycle back to R/T.

It is postulated  that the technical  explanation for the enormous
listening benefits  of the process is a re-arrangement or refinement of
the crystal structure of the conductor metals. The effect is so powerful
that objective listeners reported  a significant improvement in audio
quality when the AC power cord for a preamp was so treated.  I doubt my
aging ears are responsive to subtleties of this nature.

Anybody care to estimate how an electronic assembly, surface-mount or
otherwise, including  semiconductor devices, would fare thru  this
process?

Tom Stearns
3 Brander Court
Nashua, NH
03063

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