Thread: What's surprised you gear or cable wise?

Originally Posted by Mr Peabody

No, the music they played in that room was for going to sleep.

The sound of the system didn't have any punch or liveliness to it. Well, that would indicate sort of sleepy. Hmmm, it didn't seem slow more like a lack of transient response (balls). That system didn't do drums well. I played a small portion of a song that was pretty energetic before they changed it back to something slow. I could be wrong but I got the impression they knew something was off.

Enough people like the amps so I'm inclined to believe it was just not a good demo and hopefully I'll get a chance to hear them again.

Ok. Sounds like we heard the same sleepy sounds.


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Cable that surprised me the most was complete loom of MIT Oracle level cable .. was just floored. Gear that shocked me the most was the first time I head Wilson Audio speakers.

George

Originally Posted by gadawg

Cable that surprised me the most was complete loom of MIT Oracle level cable .. was just floored. Gear that shocked me the most was the first time I head Wilson Audio speakers.

George

Is MIT still in existence? I haven't heard anyone in HiFi mention MIT in decades.

Originally Posted by MichaelsMinute

Is MIT still in existence? I haven't heard anyone in HiFi mention MIT in decades.

There's been a large stock of MIT cables that the dealer on Audiogon has been trying to unload for years now. Beyond that, by all accounts it looks like MIT the company was abandoned and is now defunct.

Originally Posted by audio.bill

Not so fast... I recently saw a post on another forum from an MIT dealer stating he recently placed an order, and then the following was shared:

MIT Cable[/I]

Thanks for sharing.

Does anyone really still buy MIT? They have virtually no presence nor marketing that I've seen for sooooo long, I forgot they even existed.

Originally Posted by MichaelsMinute

Thanks for sharing.

Does anyone really still buy MIT? They have virtually no presence nor marketing that I've seen for sooooo long, I forgot they even existed.

If you own Spectral gear you do.

Originally Posted by mep

If you own Spectral gear you do.

Yeah, that always amazed me over the years, as much as I enjoyed listening through their equipment I could never grasp the 'lock-in' with MIT. I always wondered when bought on the used market if anybody wondered away from MIT cabling ?

Originally Posted by Mikado463

Yeah, that always amazed me over the years, as much as I enjoyed listening through their equipment I could never grasp the 'lock-in' with MIT. I always wondered when bought on the used market if anybody wondered away from MIT cabling ?

Only if you want to blow up your Spectral gear.

Originally Posted by mep

Only if you want to blow up your Spectral gear.

I'm trying to remember, oscillation / extreme capacitance issues ?

I never understood why anyone would want interconnect/speaker cables with circuits built into them to purposely alter the signal. Kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me.

Originally Posted by Mikado463

I'm trying to remember, oscillation / extreme capacitance issues ?

Superwide bandwidth that will drive the amps into oscillation if the cables don't have the correct termination network.

Originally Posted by Rich4284

Cables make a huge difference at every position, I auditioned several top brands and landed on mostly zenwave and am still blown away they what I hear when I compare.

Which Zenwave did you end up with? I auditioned several.

Thinking back, one of my biggest WOW moments came when I joined an audiophile society in home demo day with Lamizator, Hattor, and Pure Audio Project.
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We were in the basement with the Trio15s and the Voxative Field Coils driven from a hybrid Lampi Integrated I don't know if they ever sold, and the Pacific DAC after they rolled some special tubes in.

They played Jessica Williams "Heather" from Live at Yoshi and I was floored. I bought the disk that week but have yet heard it sound the same on any system since. That is a killer test and demo track.

Anyway, I will never own a Pacific but it sure was fun to experience it.

Love your speakers, smile

Originally Posted by Rich4284

Clean power is a must - Dedicated panel, dedicated grounding , good in wall wire , furutech NCF outlets

Cables make a huge difference at every position, I auditioned several top brands and landed on mostly zenwave and am still blown away with what I hear when comparing the competition.

First watt sit 3 playing my horn speakers was a MIND=BLOWN experience. the sound from this $3500 ss amp is on another level. Where do I go from here???

BAACH SP - IMO this is the future of digital playback at least and where I will be exploring. My soon to be Setup BAACH SP > Pass labs xp32 > 2x Firstwatt sit 3s > bi amped JBL 4367's w 2x sub 18's

I took this from a review in Absolute Sound
MIT’s reputation in audio circles is inarguable. In the realm of cable and AC products few other designer/manufacturers have stood at the forefront of our hobby like Bruce Brisson, who founded MIT in 1984. For years, questions have swirled around MIT’s “mysterious” network enclosures and the Multi-Pole Technology they house. Brisson addressed this issue during his discussion with editor-in-chief Robert Harley in the “Cable Designer Roundtable” in Issue 234. When he was asked about the core beliefs that guide his product development, he replied: “When measuring correctly, using impedance analyzers, one understands that audio cables suffer from at least two resonances. As an example, an eight-to-ten-foot speaker cable will typically possess a series resonance somewhere below 1kHz as well as a parallel resonance somewhere between 150kHz to 250kHz. Using a form of piecewise network analysis, I optimize the cable’s resonances via additional networks, hence the network boxes found on all MIT cables. Our best cables possess networks that optimize the cable to function without the series resonance down to a fractional hertz, or just above DC. Looking at the high frequencies in the time domain, our best speaker cables yield a useful transient response of 2.8 microseconds, or ~357kHz.”

Originally Posted by chops

I never understood why anyone would want interconnect/speaker cables with circuits built into them to purposely alter the signal. Kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me.