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A cheap test

Not as cold as liquid nitrogen but, its getting close. Discharge a CO2 extinguisher into a cooler with one of your cables inside, or interconnects. Pick your soak time but anything over a couple minutes will be meaningless due to the very low thermal mass of a cable (or any electronic part for that matter). Your cable will see approx. -110 degrees F during the blast. Not as cold as LN2 but close. Afterwards clean it up and try it. Or repeat the process.

My opinion is that you will not hear a difference. Cryogenic treatments have more of an effect on alloys than pure metals. And even them I doubt it will make an audible change. Nevertheless the intent of this message is not to debate its merits.

If you don't think -110 degrees is cold enough then visit your local industrial welding store and buy some LN2. As one inmate stated, it is not expensive.


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