[Ableza]

I generally go to the freezer, get my cables, then drop them into boiling water or better yet just use the microwave. Occasionally I will baste them and shove them in the oven. Oh wait, I think I was thinking of how I had to cook dinner when my wife was traveling for a couple weeks. Cables huh, cooked with garlic and slow simmered. Naturally they would have to sound better!

I've tried that but I was too sensitive to the sounds of them screaming in agony as they died.

 

[Paladin79]

It is like when you go out in your yard and cut flowers to take in to your wife to surprise her, and you hear each one scream as you cut them. That is so brutal. No wait, I think that was a Twilight Zone episode.

I did have a fisherman from the east coast offer to send me lobsters as a thank you for some cables I made for his boat. I was going to treat the employees but one gentleman was convinced they screamed when you dropped them in boiling water, and pretty soon other people were convinced so I settled on other sea food.



Anyway by the weekend I shall have a Lyr 2 to enjoy, I am looking forward to that and to trying a few different tubes. If anyone has favorite tubes to mention, please let me know.

 

[RCBinTN]

In the past I did some before / after and side by side comparisons of homemade ac power cables using 3 different metals for the connectors (copper, gold, rhodium).
I made 2 of each and had one of each cryo'd.

This gave me a chance to compare the same metal connectors using the same copper wire used for all 6 cables between cryo'd cables and non cryo'd ones.

Every time I compared these cables and in every single case since then the cryo'd cables were superior in detail, bass, inner detail etc.
The differences were obvious and immediate.

And an additional process I have found that also significantly increases those SQ attributes I look for is cable cooking.
I use The Cable Cooker https://www.thecablecooker.com/
Its an industrial strength device that is very effective.
It is rather expensive (≈1K$) but the results are most impressive, and this process compliments cables that have been cryo'd very well.

At this point both process are part of my 'standard' setup for any cable I use.

JJ

All right - the word on cryo cables from @johnjen ----
Perhaps the most HP-system modifying dude on Head-Fi. Seriously...check him out.

Especially...John's other mods - in particular the HD800 headphones...
You may be surprised by what he's done...and of his results.

ps. I am not an employee of JohnJen, Inc. Just an interested observer
pps. John - you got any job openings?

 

[Scott Kramer]

Finally tried speaker level inputs to get the amp flavor into my descent i's -- (always thought it was just a way to run subs if you don't have pre-outs) -- y2 bass -- jeeze, effortless and fun
...need to look for blown out bricks a few houses down haha.

Really easy to blend in now.

 

[ScottFree]

Finally tried speaker level inputs to get the amp flavor into my descent i's -- (always thought it was just a way to run subs if you don't have pre-outs) -- y2 bass -- jeeze, effortless and fun ... need to look for blown out bricks a few houses down haha.

 

[Paladin79]

I might be mistaken on this but there is an Energy speaker brand that is now owned by Klipsch, I ended up with several of those myself. Originally out of Canada I want to say.

Veritas is one series, Connoisseur is another. Unless they changed hands again, I do believe this is the case.

 

[RCBinTN]

There are people who believe all sorts of things. Knock yourself out if this sort of process floats your boat. But there is absolutely no scientific basis for it having any impact what so ever.

Right, I get that.
But, here is a Head-Fier who is stating he hears a difference...
I suppose measurements of some kind would "confirm" it.

 

[hearditontheX]

It's those screw**g pair of AudioQuest" drop out of the hole" atrocities so it can only get better.
Even burnt to a crisp.

I feel bad for the cookware.

 

[Paladin79]

Finally tried speaker level inputs to get the amp flavor into my descent i's -- (always thought it was just a way to run subs if you don't have pre-outs) -- y2 bass -- jeeze, effortless and fun ... need to look for blown out bricks a few houses down haha.

Really easy to blend in now.

I do believe I see Ontario on the speaker label and it should be the same company.

 

[Paladin79]

Right, I get that.
But, here is a Head-Fier who is stating he hears a difference...
I suppose measurements of some kind would "confirm" it.

Measurements can quantify some things, Double blind testing would show me if someone could consistently pick one wire over another. RCB if you make it to my place one day, I will show you just how hard that is to do even when the wire is in the signal path.

You cannot improve a signal, you can only do your best to maintain it.

 

[KoshNaranek]

Here is a Photo of the outside of Tolkein and Lewis' pub

And Here they are in their full glory as gargoyles at their beloved Oxford.

 

[Paladin79]

Very cool, I love such history. I will have to read the book about them. I have another book about a major contributor to the OED who was in prison the majority of time he helped out.

 

[Letmebefrank]

Nice. I have read Wheel of Time a few times as well. Have had a hard time getting into the Malazan series. More to do with available time than book quality. I am right now rereading Raymond E. Feist and am about a quarter of the way through all 37 or something books.

Feist is another of my favorites. Magician is one of the best works of fiction I've ever read though. I think I might try to blast through these last Malazan books so I can read Feist again, I still haven't read the final trilogy....

 

[OldRoadToad]

I absolutely love the Wheel of Time, despite it's faults and the drawn out middle section, it is my all time favorite fantasy series. I've read the full series 3 times and the Jordan-written books 4 times. I'm reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen right now and I'm on book 8. It's a great series but it just doesn't grab my brain like WoT does.

I got hooked on the series years ago abut lost interest after book 8 or so. Then the author died. I know that his widow commissioned another writer to finish the series and perhaps when my eyes are up to it, I shall pick up where I left off and finish the series. I really enjoyed that series of books.

ORT

 

[Letmebefrank]

I got hooked on the series years ago abut lost interest after book 8 or so. Then the author died. I know that his widow commissioned another writer to finish the series and perhaps when my eyes are up to it, I shall pick up where I left off and finish the series. I really enjoyed that series of books.

ORT

I very much recommend it. There are a few storylines in those middle books that are merely distractions because Jordan knew he was dieing, but couldn't figure out how to get to the ending he had already written. After he passed, his wife Harriet commissioned Brandon Sanderson, another fantastic writer with a similar style (highly recommend the mistborn series by him), to finish the series. He spent over a year just reading Jordan's notes on characters and places, which were longer than all the books he had written in the series combined. He wrote the last three books in the series, including some chapters that Jordan had written before he passed, and most importantly, the epilogue was written by Jordan himself and unchanged by Sanderson or editors.

Those final three books are incredibly good.