Cryogenic treatment of an LP?

Stop, please stop! You're killing me - I'm splitting a gut laughing at some of the comments to this post.

This is an example of our "superior" American education system at work. All of you who have never taken a high school or college physics class, please raise your hand. Hmmm, just as I suspected. OK, let's make it easy: the secret word is thermodynamics. Go ahead and Google it, we'll wait...

But back to the OP. In a nutshell, (so-called) cryogenically treating vinyl records is a bad idea for several reasons; but mainly because PVC, like most ethenyl compounds, contain some small amount of asphaltenes that are prone to stress fractures under low temperaures.

Question - what do your LPs ave in common with your driveway?

Answer - ask anyone who lives in Minnesota about how their asphalt driveways look like after a few cold winters. (Hint - not so good)

Class dismissed.

"Well, with over 105,000 casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I think it's pretty safe to say that the atomic bomb is real."

Yes, I suppose that's true. But it's also true the use of the atomic bomb prevented 500, 000 casualties. So, one could say the atomic bomb is a real lifesaver.

Geoffkait said:

the preposterous nature of things like cryo-records, wire and fuse directionality, tiny little bowl resonators, coloring the edge of CDs, crystals, Mpingo discs, demagnetizers, ionizers, extremely low frequency generators, things of that nature, there will be a lot of skepticism to overcome. I guess you could say the same about black holes, the big bang, relativity theory, teleportation and the atomic bomb

but he left out "calling someone up on the telephone to make his system sound better"...

Yes, I suppose that's true. But it's also true the use of the atomic bomb prevented 500, 000 casualties. So, one could say the atomic bomb is a real lifesaver.

And just what does that have to do with this discussion?

"I guess you could say the same about black holes, the big bang, relativity theory, teleportation and the atomic bomb - the preposterous nature of such things makes it extremely difficult to conceive they're real without proof or demonstration." - Geoffkait

The audio world has a lot of BS products that consumers lacking scientific knowledge happily purchase. Some of the products you list fall into the category and others have potential, but I think cryo-LPs takes the cake.

As for black holes, I don't claim to have any knowledge on the subject, but I'm skeptical that we really have a solid understanding of a lot of things in space. I believe the Big Bang to be total BS, but that discussion has nothing to do with audio so I'll leave it alone. Do some reading on origins and you'll find that the Big Bang isn't really the best explaination even from the perspective of evolution. Teleportation isn't a reality and I highly doubt it will ever be. Finally, including the atomic bomb in this list is just plain ignorant.