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Re: Pinging cheap-Jack: Morricab would like a word with you.

"This clown even calls me his "pal"!"

Ahem...him calling you "pal" wasn't really his way of trying to make friends with you but you seemed to take it this way. He was not really presuming anything with using that word. FWIW, cheap-jack is not my friend any more than he is yours. We debate on this forum, sometimes its fun and sometimes not.

I could really care less if you and Cheap-jack go round and round. I am trying to have a meaningful discussion with you because maybe, just maybe you know something about what I have to admit on the face of it seems a bit of a silly tweak. Now, I am not calling you silly or your experience silly, I am calling the notion of freezing an item and that making it sound permanently better a silly notion. So humor me and start at the beginning, I gather you have tested this many times, right? Under what conditions? Have you tried to repeat it in some kind of controlled manner? Do you have an idea for a working mechanism?

You have to realize that as a scientist, I am by nature a keen observer and skeptic about my own observations. Often my observations have led to interesting discoveries but they have also led to dead ends because not everything is as it seems...even to our extended senses (ie. instruments). Sometimes what looked like an interesting piece of data was, upon further review, a loose connection or picking up stray RFI. THis is why the first observation of a phenomenon is followed by the next 100 until it is sure the phenomenon is real and repeatable. That blip on the screen may be something unique or noise.

"You want presumption? I'll go further and say that I've probably done more tests on the domestic freeze effect than anyone on this forum (with the likely exception of Mr. Kait)."

Well you have me beat, I have only done some cryogenic treating (I have access to liquid N2) and bought some cryoed parts. Never had the time or inclination to put my DAC, cables or amps in the freezer (only the cables would fit anyway).

I tell you what, you tell me which objects in the freezer gave the most dramatic effects and I will test them out. I will put cds or cables in there or hell even a picture of myself. Or even of you if you send me one. As tweaks go I guess its cheap enough.



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