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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:22 pm
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Does anyone here use cryogenically frozen valves and if so do you recommend them?
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:27 pm
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I've heard a lot about cryo on several products lately from automotive brake rotors to electronics. The whole concept sounds a little like black magic to me. I doubt it has any benefit or actually improves these products but they are marketing it as such. 8)


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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:44 am
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I have heard of it. In my case it was used to make certain car parts (a differential) more durable/stronger. A mechanical engineers/friends comment was that it was a very marginable, at best, increase in strength/durability for a considerable cost. Hence, it was not done to the car parts in question.

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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:12 pm
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It's a huge crock of hype.


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63supro wrote:
It's a huge crock of hype.


I'll second that. Cryo-treated valves is just the brainchild of some dude who thought "what can I try to sell that people will fall for".

Makes no difference mate, I've A/B'd them and no change.


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It's supposed to align the magnetic domains or some such nonsense!


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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:34 pm
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Strataholic wrote:
It's supposed to align the magnetic domains or some such nonsense!


Yeah, I heard that, that the molecules are aligned with basically less obstacles for the signal/power goin through.

But has anyone used them ever? Is there a noticeable difference or is it just ''black magic''?

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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:59 am
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It's B.S. They want you to believe that by super cooling the materials they are somehow better because the molecules align and/or the magnetic properties polarize to north/south like a magnet. Last I heard the flow of electrons could care less about north/south, they just flow from positive to negative. 8)


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Leave super conductors out of our guitars.


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atolleter wrote:
Leave super conductors out of our guitars.
Exactly. Let the musician, not a circuit board, make music. 8)


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Yea, I was playing too fast the other day using some cryogenically processed strings and time stopped! LOL


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That's when Hendrix came by to sit on your shoulder.


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