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Re: My recent experience with freezing CDs

You are absolutely correct Quint, your ears ain't lying !! 'Unclestu52' is also correct when he says that "It works on a lot of other things, too, including DVDs".

The people constantly making the challenge that freezing things cannot possibly be giving the significant improvements that those who have tried it are describing - particularly when they use the argument that the domestic deep freezer does not go down to the temperatures of cryogenic freezing are using both a 'truism' and a 'red herring'. A 'truism' because yes, obviously, a domestic deep freezer does not go down to cryogenic temperatures (you do not need a science degree to be aware of that !) and a 'red herring' because if EITHER freezing CDs, cables, components etc using a domestic deep freezer OR freezing at cryogenic temperatures can give the improvements in the sound which many people describe, then SURELY, the audio industry should be "knocked back on their heels" and should have been 'knocked back on their heels' over twenty years ago, when we first introduced the freezing technique using a domestic deep freezer to our customers !!

Just why is it so difficult for people to try the freezing technique for themselves ? It is a free technique. You do not need to experiment with your favourite disc/s. Everyone has at least a few CDs which they bought because they either liked that particular artist or liked the particular music but never now play the CD because they were disappointed with how it sounded. Or, alternatively, particularly in the UK, one often gets a free CD accompanying a Hi Fi magazine.

There are such benefits (soundwise) from experimenting with the freezing technique that this technique should have swept through the audio industry like a whirlwind.

I can only quote Ed Meitner's words (Ed Meitner was instrumental in introducing cryogenic freezing techniques to the world of audio over 20 years ago).
"There was never a failure. We treated tons of solid-state stuff, whole circuit boards, and the only bad thing that happened was that the electrolytic capacitors would lose their shrink-wrap. That was it. We even treated speaker voice coils. What I've found over the last 15 years of being in high-end audio is that most of the minds are pretty closed. And this is strange: it's the opposite of what you would expect."
Regards,
May Belt.



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