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Posted by Luminator (A) on October 18, 2014 at 19:39:07

In Reply to: RE: Mid-90s posted by earnie3 on October 18, 2014 at 18:03:47:

As long as these "old" cables are in good shape, you can often get good deals on them. Everyone else chases the latest, which frees up the old stuff.

I don't know the particulars of your room, system, and musical tastes. But these mid-90s MIT upper-end models are adept at preserving the sources' image scale.

At a late-90s Stereophile show here in San Francisco, I went to an MIT room. Bruce Brisson played some well-recorded music. Hot damn, the images were life-sized, the marimba placed back in the stage, with the piano up front and sounding larger. When everyone left, I snuck in some heavy metal (most likely Savatage's "Gutter Ballet"), and the soundstage collapsed into a wall of sound. Yet, within that wall, each snippet had a different size and volume. It was micronized.

Here on AA, you can research my reviews of MIT products. Like all cables, they require the use of a cable burn-in device, in order to unlock their potential. Once you do that, you may be blown away by how well they preserve what our source components can dish out.

Yes, everybody asks me about Nordost's car-priced Odin series. Yes, there's very little, IME, which comes close to matching the Odin's near light-speed signal transfer capabilities. But in other musical parameters, the competition, including MIT's top offerings, can outperform the Nordost Odin. Lifelike imaging is one such measurable.

At one show, I got to hear the Classe'/MIT/Thiel system. Wow, it preserved the awesome "pop" and "snap" of L.A. Guns' Cocked & Loaded. But it went one step further, by preserving the image size of Steve Riley's Tama (he's now endorsed by Ludwig) drums used on that album. This was the closest I've ever heard Cocked & Loaded sound to hearing L.A. Guns in concert.

Another bit of advice. Like other cable looms, you can unify the sound of your system, by now using an MIT speaker cable. In the "affordable" realm, I still like the old Terminator 2 series speaker cables, which also hail from the mid-90s.

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Topic - Interconnect question - earnie3 11:55:28 10/18/14 (28)

RE: Interconnect question - earnie3 16:58:22 10/24/14 (1)

RE: Interconnect question - fantja 17:52:08 10/24/14 (0)

Whats inside? - Awe-d-o-file 08:04:29 10/21/14 (13)

RE: Whats inside? - alan m. kafton 12:53:43 10/21/14 (12)

RE: Whats inside? - Awe-d-o-file 17:16:32 10/21/14 (0)

RE: Whats inside? - fantja 13:56:49 10/21/14 (10)

RE: Whats inside? - alan m. kafton 03:51:56 10/22/14 (9)

I might add.... - alan m. kafton 15:33:52 10/22/14 (7)

Oh, please, no!!! - Barry 12:56:22 10/23/14 (5)

75-Ohm Coax With F-Type Connectors - Luminator 14:48:17 10/23/14 (4)

Really...not happening - Barry 15:41:11 10/23/14 (2)

OR.... - alan m. kafton 16:17:43 10/26/14 (0)

What you could do.... - alan m. kafton 22:54:18 10/23/14 (0)

Thanks as always.... - alan m. kafton 15:26:09 10/23/14 (0)

RE: I might add.... - fantja 11:00:07 10/23/14 (0)

RE: Whats inside? - fantja 04:54:23 10/22/14 (0)

RE: Interconnect question - fantja 14:28:20 10/18/14 (1)

Old Cables - Luminator 19:20:33 10/18/14 (0)

Mid-90s - Luminator 12:25:29 10/18/14 (9)

RE: Mid-90s - Mr Peabody 20:10:09 10/19/14 (4)

RE: Mid-90s - alan m. kafton 11:39:07 10/20/14 (3)

RE: Mid-90s - Mr Peabody 15:52:52 10/20/14 (2)

RE: Mid-90s - alan m. kafton 12:47:34 10/21/14 (1)

Good point, Alan - MikeMasztal 06:00:05 11/30/14 (0)

RE: Mid-90s - earnie3 13:04:48 10/18/14 (3)

RE: Mid-90s - Luminator 13:55:25 10/18/14 (2)

RE: Mid-90s - earnie3 18:03:47 10/18/14 (1)

See! - Luminator 19:39:07 10/18/14 (0)

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