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In Reply to: RE: Mid-90s posted by earnie3 on October 18, 2014 at 13:04:48
Because of the prices, the MIT MI-350 Reference was used in super high-end systems. Eventually, MIT would team up with Classe' and Thiel, and create so-called OP2 versions of their cables.In another partnership, MIT teamed up with Spectral and Avalon, to form a so-called 2C3D system. The MI-350 Reference was part of that 2C3D hologram, but could be used on any at-large electronics. IME, while this interconnect had its own sonic signature, you needed top-notch sources, in order to discern what that signature was. If the sources deviated from true faith, the MI-350 let us know. Our experiences concurred with Stereophile's assessment of "not kind to any form of bloat, smearing, or associated euphonia."
The MI-350's plastic boxes are not as weighty as the metal ones found on MIT's Oracle series.
Starting from the mid-90s, I used the much cheaper ($325) MIT Digital Reference, which was also a part of the 2C3D hologram. I've reviewed it extensively. In fact, I still have it. It serves as a point of reference, from which I can judge other S/PDIF digital cables.
But again, you don't know what these (and any) cables can do, unless and until you utilize a proper cable burn-in device. Ignore MIT's BS warning; ALL of MIT's cables my friends and I have tried on the Cable Cooker presented no qualms or anomalies.
I am heartened that you brought up and shared this long-lost MIT product. My audio friends and I now and then unearth cables from the 90s. Once we give them the Cable Cooker treatment, we are frequently surprised at just how good (accurate, true to the source) these cables are. With the economy in the toilet, people are broke. So it behooves them to investigate used samples of old high-end audio products, which can often be had at a fraction of their original retail price.
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I love these things btw my friend said I could buy them at a ridiculous low price so I did...
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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