The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test


Some have wondered about the Cryo'd outlet test that this skeptic has agreed to do, thanks to the generous loan of an outlet by another member. The situation is that the outlet, and its non-cryo'd twin have been breaking in for several weeks and I think we can agree they are ready for evaluation. Performing the tests will involve littering the room with various amps and speakers with the associated wires strung around, so, and I am sure you understand, I need to wait for a free day when my dear wife is elsewhere occupied.
A report will be made.
eldartford
I hate to contribute to these never-ending threads, but...

With all due respects to HDM, no matter how many times you repeat it, I think it's obvious that continuing this debate is yielding very little. If you personally hear dramatic changes in an outlet every few hours, or few days, or 2-3 months, then knock yourself out. Heck, even if you enjoy your music better sitting on a cryo'd couch, then who am I to say otherwise. I think your position on cryo is clear and people can judge for themselves at this point.

FWIW, I wouldn't say science can explain 100% of everything (and scientist do disagree); however, you have to give some (if not more) credence that it could all be in your head.

Psychology and emotion are often more powerful than science and logic. Look how many people believe in ghosts, UFOs and Elvis being alive. We're all guilty of it to some degree, so their is no shame in admitting it. Even the venerable JGH failed a DBT test many years ago that was publicized in Stereophile (take heart Stehno).

Look, the Jedi Mind Trick works just as well on Earth as it does on Tattoine. It's called being gullible and almost every industry tries to exploit it. If you don't acknowledge that possibility at all and maintain a level of professional skepticism, then you run the risk of losing credibility when people actually hear things for themselves (like Stehno did) and came to contrary and embarassing results.
Yes, I will pack it in Labtec, but, with all due respect, I have never in 2-3 years of posting about outlets said that I hear dramatic changes in an outlet every few hours, or every 2-3 months, so please don't put words in my mouth that have never been there. Debates rage about DBT as well, and you certainly could not describe the experimentation I've done as DBT. If Stehno identified a difference, then it is only a partial failure as compared to Eldartford's complete failure, but as the naysayers say, it is all psychological anyway.

That's it, I'll sign off on this issue and refrain from posting anymore.
I would like to try cryo treatment on Audiopoints and Sistrum platforms. Devices that are reactive within a known environment, unlike an AC outlet, a device dangling within a know environment but being much controlled from a variable outside environmemnt. Perhaps the points and the Sistrum would be even more reactive to vibration like the trumpet that has gone thru cryo treatment. Tom
Stehno: No 'disgrace' at all in taking on the risk of an experiment like this in public (would Maxgain?). And I wonder, philosophically speaking if you'd ultimately feel you really gained more at the end of the day, had you happened to choose the correct outlet instead?...