My Stan Warren DVD Player Arrived Yahoo


Just wanted to let you guys know the Pioneer DV-333 DVD Player I sent to Stan Warren in early December came today. It was ESP also. I have never bothered him before, but I was curious how his back log was doing, so I decided to call him from my office. He was not in. Amazingly, when I got home it was on my porch waiting for me. I then called just to leave a thank you on his ansering machine and he was in. We talked for over an hour (glad for 5 cents/minute). FYI, he is out of his favorite CAPs, and has 5 machines waiting for the order to come in. Don't know what else he is working on. I'll try to post back later here or a new one and let you know how it sounds once it breaks in. He told me 100 hours will get it to 90% and a month to get the last 10%.
sugarbrie

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Stan had a tip. He told me to freeze (I don't know spelling "Cyrogenically"??) all my cables/interconnects. Get a foam cooler that will fit in the freezer and some dry ice. First put the cables in the fridge to cool; then in the dry ice in the freezer to get them down to -100 degrees. After freezing move them back to the fridge to partially thaw; then back to room temp. and then back on the system. He said I would notice the possitive difference.
Stan freezes the circuit boards in the players as part of his MOD, including the parts he rebuilds. That is how it came up in conversation.
Mike Vansevers freezes the electric outlets on his reference level power conditioners. He may freeze the plugs on his power cords too, but not sure. ---- Stan mentioned freezing CD's also in our conversation. He also said he a did a controlled test with someone at a Univerisity near him, where they froze cables using liquid nitrogen, which is much colder than dry ice. They also had control cables not frozen. They were all able to successfully identify the unfrozen control cables, but could not tell which of the frozen cables were liquid nitrogen and which were dry ice. Therefore, he is very happy using dry ice as a cheap and easy to get freeze.
Follow up on March 9, 2001 --- The CD Player was worth the trouble getting. It does not quite have the "heft" in the bass of a megabucks player, but the rest is excellent top to bottom. Considering the megabuck players are 5 to 6 times more expensive, the Modified Pioneer is impressive. Very good stereo image. My old redbook CDs sound better than ever.
It definitely needed 100 hours to break in. Stan related that 100 hours get it to about 90%, a month of decent use to get it to 100%. I guess I agree. The more it breaks-in the more "analog" is sounds.