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In Reply to: Re: Thats what I like to hear! posted by brobertson on August 11, 2002 at 17:48:20:
The smoother sound is what I like most in that when I am in the mood I can turn the volume up way high without having my ears pierced by the splintering trebles. Makes short bursts of high volume listening all the more enjoyable.
P.S. I don't like to freeze musical instruments anymore as I have found more often but not always, I prefered the original sound.
Here is some interesting background info from a couple of letters I have edited and stuck together from one of the pioneers of the freezing technique.In my opinion the "Cryogenic Compact Disc"
article by Robert Harley in the October 1990 issue of Stereophile is
one of the most significant articles in the history of audio. If
the readership of Stereophile in the late 1990s was in the region of
around 86,000, then that means that 86,000 or more people have read
that article and that quite a number of those 86,000
were "Professionals in the audio industry". So, why all the silence
until now ? This cryogenic article by Robert Harley in October 1990
should have stood the audio industry on it's head !!!When the subject of freezing comes up from time to time in Tweakers
Asylum and Audio Asylum and other Internet sites, the ridiculers step
in and argue that freezing cannot possibly have any effect - end of
discussion !! All the discussion usually centres around freezing
Compact Discs. The Compact Disc is the easiest thing for most
people to experiment with so why so many people actually refuse to do
experiments I can never understand. Everyone who listens to Compact
Discs and audio will always have a Compact Disc that they do not like
the sound of, that they never play because they are disappointed in
the sound - I would have thought such a disc would be an ideal thing
to use as a test freezing. No one is asking these people to
experiment with their favourite Compact Disc, there are many non
favourite discs that they could use. In the UK, from time to time,
the Hi-Fi magazines will carry a free CD on their front cover, so in
the UK we have a useful source of identical and cheap Compact Discs
to experiment with. It is 10 years since Robert Harley's cryogenic
freezing article appeared in Stereophile and yet practically the
whole of the audio industry is silent. The ridiculers in the audio
web sites are doing a marvellous job for the audio industry. Can
you imagine the devastating effect on the audio industry if someone
came out in the audio magazines describing how they had `frozen' a
Krell amplifier and it sounded so much better than an identical but
unfrozen one. Ditto the wildly expensive Wilson loudspeakers.
Ditto this exotic, expensive CD player., that exotic, expensive pre-
amplifier., that exotic, expensive recorder. From that moment, how
could any UNFROZEN equipment be sold ?
And, when the thoughts turn to exotic interconnects and cables. How
can any UNFROZEN Audioquest cable, Monster Cable, Kimber cable, etc.
be sold ?And, just to make matters even worse, when the buying public
gradually begin to do their own freezing experiments and realise that
after freezing their existing audio equipment, cables and
interconnects and can achieve an improvement in their sound, they
begin to realise that their existing (frozen) equipment now sounds
better than anything (unfrozen) which the retailer is trying to sell
them new !!! And this is before any consideration is given to any
P.W.B. treatments. Take those into consideration and the bomb just
gets bigger.If members of the audio industry had been seriously interested in
investigating the freezing technique further after Robert Harley's
article, perhaps now, some 10 years later, more people than Peter
Belt would have had to come to the conclusion that the beneficial
effect of freezing has nothing to do with `affecting the audio
signal' - that there is something else `going on'. This realisation
only comes about when one realises that freezing something which
could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be associated with the
audio system and yet one can obtain a similar beneficial effect on
the `sound' !!!May Belt.
11th August 2001.**************************************
* P.W.B. Electronics
* http://www.belt.demon.co.uk
* pwb@b...
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Follow Ups
- smooth sound and more - elwstar 08/11/0221:26:13 08/11/02 (1)
- Re: smooth sound and more - brobertson 05:09:32 08/12/02 (0)
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