ABOUT ME
My name is Steven, an audiophile and the owner of a cryogenics firm. For the
last thirty years I have spent many late nights building and tinkering with all
sorts of exotic hi fi equipment. After years of going to various shops, trading
in my superceded equipment for the latest and greatest, to get only a marginal
improvement at a ridiculous expense I decided there must be a better way. I
started to build my own equipment. That was the turning point. What I built
absolutely annihilated anything I could buy in the high end shops.

MY EQUIPMENT
A zero oversampling non digital filter phillips 1541 crown chip DAC, with valve
output stage (Amperex bugle boys 6DJ8s). The amp, a single ended classA triode
RCA 245/2A3 monoplates. Output, 1.5- 3 watts depending on the tube - no
electrolytic capacitors anywhere in my system. Speakers - Goodmans axiom 80s
full range speakers (no speaker crossovers) in horn loaded boxes.
Every time I changed a cable, wire, capacitor, resistor or valve, there was an
audible change, but not always for the better.
What I did ultimately was always an improvement, but never so much as when I
cryogenically treated my first group of valves (6DJ8s).

CRYOGENIC EFFECTS
There was a stunning improvement in every perceivable parameter. What struck me
at first was the blackness, lack of grain, hash and noise between the
instruments.The voice appeared to be so much more realistic, as a person right
there in front of you, coming out of an absolute black background. It was like
real music, rather than artificial. At first I couldn't believe my ears. I
swapped back to a standard set of bugle boys 6DJ8s and confirmed that I'd never
be able to go back to an uncryoed tube again. I knew I had to do all my tubes.
I was sold. Since that time I've spent countless hours perfecting the process
of cryoing tubes and the results are stunning. Some of the popular tubes I've
done are
6SL7 6SN7 6J5 GZ32 GZ34 5U4 U52 300B 2A3 45 245 EL34

THE PROCESS
The Valves undergo a specially developed proprietary Deep Cryogenic Treatment
followed by a heating post-treatment.
I found that the key to the process was the temperature that the valves were
taken down to. My experiments have shown that significant sonic benefits are
achieved with temperatures below -160 deg C. So normal cryo chambers that went
to - 135 deg C were not good enough. The valves had to be taken down to a
minimum of -180 deg C to gain the full effect.

My System uses custom designed cryogenic chambers and internals which ensures
that -180 deg C is achieved. (Commercial units can only cool down to -135 deg
C.)
This is a time consuming process taking 2 days, where the material is slowly
cooled to -180 deg C, left soaking at that temperature and is slowly brought
back to room temperature. This is followed by post heat treatment which
involves a slow temperature rise and soak followed by slow temperature drop
back to room temperature


BENEFITS TO YOU
The sonic benefits of the Valve Cryogenic Treatment are smooth, grain free,
detailed, fast, realistic and musically involving reproduction of music.

We want to keep the price down so other music heads can enjoy the same effects
that we're enjoying now.
The chambers are relatively small so the tubes are not mass produced.




For enquiries or more information please contact or visit
our Web Page at http://www.cryomusicsystems.com