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Old 16th Oct 2017, 1:52 pm   #203
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Default Re: Audiophoolery. 'Cable Break In' - I never knew that!

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Originally Posted by Craig Sawyers
The background is that cycling to liquid nitrogen results in stress relieving. So at least the plausibility argument is that doing the same thing with a valve changes in some way its characteristics, at least audibly.
It is just possible that cryo treatment could modify valve microphonics. It won't alter distortion etc.

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OK - I hear you say "This is digital - it is 0's and 1's". Well it might be at one point, but I'd invite you to look at an eye diagram for the analogue output from the photodiodes in a CD mechanism. A CD mechanism is analogue through and through. Focus, tracking and data.
Error correction means that the data entering the DAC is perfect almost all of the time.
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