ALo Jena Wire Cryo Dock vs Compact Silk Dock?

Originally Posted by Melletron

Yea, that 24 inch Cotton RCA Dock is just so very transparent, like the portable Cotton Dock. Each type, be it the Cotton, Silk, or Cyro, has their own slightly different sound sig for sure. But it's evident to me that those individual sound sigs will remain consistent throughout each product.

I also agree that the cotton and silk docks are not at all fragile.

Originally Posted by aluren

i've been waiting for the supermacro iv since july 13... its been awhile... but yeah, i wasn't planning on getting the silk dock... maybe the cryo, but i've read some posts in DIY that cryo cable aren't anything special and that the cryo treatment doesn't really change the properties of copper unless it stayed in that super freezing temperature. but i guess in the end if it sounds good, i'm good.

Originally Posted by From Audiolineout.com

About Jena Wire


I have personally searched long and far for a stranded wire to stand up to my cotton and silk dock cables. I really needed a conductor that could stand up to the rough and tumble environment of a truly portable line out dock cable. Silver sounded great but as we all know a solid silver wire is not the most durable solution. The problem was all the stranded wire I tried was simply trounced by my silk and cotton cables, until now. The folks over at Jena Tech gave me a sample of Jena Wire making grand claims and I thought "oh another stranded wire that is going to get destroyed by my Cotton and Silk cables" I was more than surprised by the Jena Wire. The wire is visually beautiful, a pink gold color exciting to the eye as well as the ear. I found its sonic signature to be so unique and having a flavor all its own. Easily going toe to toe with my best selling Silk and Cotton cables while being more durable than a solid silver cable.

Jena Wire is custom fabricated for Jena Technologies over seas in exacting laboratory conditions, using fifty 99.9999% pure copper strands to comprise the conductor. The 50 strands are compressed at high pressures in a Teflon dielectric that is specially void of fluorine which allows for greater flexibility and a dielectric minus fluorine holds up better during the cryogenic treatment. The cable is then cryogenically treated in Jena Technologies lab to exacting standards using a full immersion treatment process outlined below. This is the same conductor found in Jena Tech's award winning Pathfinder and Dreamdancer speaker cables costing thousands of dollars. What you get is the most uncolored and full bodied sound possible, a truly unique cable and the worlds first cryogenically treated Line Out Dock.

Cryo Process

All JENA LABS wire products are Deep Immersion Cryogenically treated as part of the standard production process. This treatment entails a cold chilling process culminating in the full immersion of the cables in Liquid Nitrogen, also known as LN2. The boiling point of LN2 is -320.4° Fahrenheit, [-195.77° Celsius] or about 400° F below warm room temperature.
In the liquid state as we use it, the LN2 is actually much colder than the vapor to liquid boiling point of LN2 (-320.4° Fahrenheit.)

* We use what is called a super cooling process that is between -330.° to about -345.° Fahrenheit.

* Additionally our LN2 is a validated medical grade liquid Nitrogen, which is just another plus for its purity.


What happens?

Exposing metallic objects to this extreme cold causes beneficial molecular changes to occur. As metallic objects cool, they shrink. With the extreme cooling and the shrinkage that follows in LN2 immersion, the crystal boundaries of metallic conductors align more closely with one another and become more conductive and quieter. Mechanical integrity is also improved. The improved molecular condition stays intact through the slow warming process and is stable at room temperature.

Benefits

When conducting an electric signal, treated wire and formed metallic parts will produce less micro-diode-effect noise, less impurity inclusion field disturbance and less 'slow field' transverse energy generation. The result is a cable or electrical device that is quieter in noise floor and more revealing of subtle musical nuances.

Difficulties

Working with LN2 requires very specialized and expensive equipment, and extreme care in process. It is very dangerous, as the cold is so severe that it can result in severe injury from accidental exposure to the liquid. The process of chilling and warming takes several days to complete, and if done incorrectly can result in the fracture and loss of the materials being processed. In every phase of the treatment, extreme care must be taken. We feel strongly enough about the musical merits of the treatment, that we gladly make the investment in the equipment, the time, and the safety procedures needed to make the benefits available to our customers.

Beware of others Cryo-Claims

Several audio writers, equipment modifiers, and so-called technologists have promoted refrigeration of cables and electronic parts by packing in Dry Ice. This is NOT cryogenic treatment. Clearly, dry ice has nothing to do with Cryogenics.

There are a few companies that are providing a service which employ gas bath refrigeration in a cold furnace cooled by LN2. If it is a circulation process these types of furnace's can reach down to about -180.° to about -240.° Fahrenheit generally speaking. With enough extreme and outrageously expensive effort (economically prohibitive for most providers) vapor circulation can get down to about -280.° Fahrenheit. For a circulation type of furnace that is 100% duty cycle of the gas inlet from the LN2 holding dewar. It does not matter what others are claiming getting vapor below -260.° Fahrenheit is exceptionally hard. Period. That will not provide a sufficient chill to our standards. Scientifically speaking, Cryogenics refer ONLY to temperatures at or below the vapor point on Nitrogen, -320.4° Fahrenheit. Our process involves temperatures that are substantially colder than this.

* We use what is called a super cooling process that is between -330.° to about -345.° Fahrenheit.

Only true Liquid Nitrogen Immersion, as employed by JENA LABS will fully and permanently enhance the musical behavior of metallic conductors.