Cryogenic treatment of tubes? Anyone with experience positive or negative?

Don’t knock these electronic engineers they designed everything your listening to, without them you’d have nothing but voodoo/Geoff to listen to.

Cheers George

georgehifi
Don’t knock these electronic engineers they designed everything your listening to, without them you’d have nothing but voodoo/Geoff to listen to.

Cheers George

Georgie old boy, this is simply a case where experience and education Trump someone’s opinion. That someone being your electronics engineer. Let me explain. Electronic engineers don’t get any courses in Materials Science, Engineering Science and Strength of Materials as do Aerospace Engineers and he obviously has zero experience in cryogenics whereas I have 20 years of experience. Therefore his opinion is irrelevant. Your use of his opinion is actually an excellent example of Appeal to Authority. For that you get a gold star.

I am aware of at least 2 speaker manufacturers  in the past and present that cryo(ed) the internal components/wires of their speakers. I can't imagine it is based on anything other than perceived improvement or possibly for the reason given by Glennewdick. His explanation is my understanding of the overiding benefit aside from having no benefit to NOS tubes, 1st time I heard that. I would say that sonically I have THOUGHT I heard differences, output tubes in an amplifier years back,  this would have to be revisited before I decide. My understanding that there are different methods and that not all cryo treatment is the same. Someone else with more experience might chime in on that point?

tubegroover
I am aware of at least 2 speaker manufacturers in the past and present that cryo(ed) the internal components/wires of their speakers. I can’t imagine it is based on anything other than perceived improvement or possibly for the reason given by Glennewdick. His explanation is my understanding of the overiding benefit aside from having no benefit to NOS tubes, 1st time I heard that. I would say that sonically I have THOUGHT I heard differences, output tubes in an amplifier years back, this would have to be revisited before I decide. My understanding that there are different methods and that not all cryo treatment is the same. Someone else with more experience might chime in on that point?

>>>>>Right. Not to mention high end electronics manufacturers who Cryo their components, e.g. Meitner, and most high end cable manufacturers, and many aftermarket fuses manufacturers who also routinely Cryo their products. I’m pretty sure Cryo Tube or some such company sells cryo’d tubes. Walker Audio used to Cryo tonearm and other parts for their $100,000 turntable, dunno if they still do. Hel-loo!