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Cryogenic application in music production/reproduction

To further this seemingly moot argument, some guitarists swear by Dean Markley's Blue Steel strings as being not only more durable (DM claims 6 times moreso) but also richer in tone and dynamics as well as easier to tune.

http://www.deanmarkley.com/htmlDocs/BlsMastrPg.html

Their claim (and that of many others that support cryogenics) is that "Cryogenic treatment realigns the molecular structure". I suppose if it does do this, it might provide a more stable and better cable insofaras construction goes.

Yes, a guitar string is a mechanical device rather than a conductor (well, it is capable of and does conduct electricity when used in an electric guitar seeing as how the ground wire is usually attached to the bridge and the strings are used to dump EMI and RFI that could affect the pickups to ground), but it's obvious that the general opinion is construction affects sound... otherwise we wouldn't be braiding, twisting, and knitting our cables. It could be considered that the added stability and molecular alignment might also give a better path for the electricity to follow as well (a straight as opposed to a winding road).

Of course it all boils down to personal preference: we could have all the proof in the world that cryogenics absolutely does make it all sound better and some people still wouldn't like it... some people swear up and down that copper is still better for audio cables even though silver has been proven to be a better conductor for many years. So why argue about personal preference any further than that?

That said, has anyone tried making identical cables, burning them in, and then treating one while leaving the other alone? That would seem to me to be the best test.


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