February 26, 2009

• Cable Cooker Upgrade

  Here in the U.S., no one had heard of the English Beat.  So when that band broke up, and splintered into Fine Young Cannibals and General Public, no one even shrugged.  In early 1984, General Public's "Tenderness" was all the rage.  Hard to believe that was 25 years ago.  I remember it like it was yesterday.

  25 years ago, no one knew that cables were as important as the components themselves.  Nowadays, audiophiles routinely spend more on cables than the components themselves.  And I'm no different.

  Poor Alan Kafton.  When his Cable Cooker is used, the cooked cables perform at ungodly levels.  The cables get all the praise, but everyone forgets about the Cable Cooker.  And now I give away his company secrets.
  
  Open up the Cooker, and you'll see the main circuit board, assisted by specialized parts. 
  
  And here is a closer look at the main board.
  
  For $75, you can retrofit your Cable Cooker 2.5's with an extended frequency sweep.  The new version uses a linear square waveform that starts at 0 DC, and goes beyond 40kHz.  I think the older version's sweep used to go from 40Hz to around 18kHz.  Will the Cooker now work better?  Faster?
  
  Aw, look at how Aiden put the clean dishes into the rack.
  
  Now Aiden puts Humpty Dumpty the Cooker back together.  I don't have the old board with me, but my colleagues and I used it for over 5 years.  So we're intimately familiar with it.  Now that we have the new board, we'll throw some more cables onto the Cooker, and note any changes.
  

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