MIT going out of business

[RepublicOfTexas69]

And why is that?

Really? Give Karen a call I am sure she will tell you.

 

[mep]

I lived in Maine for 12 years. I know Karen, her husband, and Carl. I was at Karen's house when they first started terminating MIT cables.

 

[crwilli]

..,They were better at marketing.

Sure are.

 

[bfreidah]

Purchased a set of MITerminator 2s in the late 90s. After that I stopped buying monster products. Pulled them out of storage a couple weeks ago to run a couple monoblocks to my Martin Logan Quest Zs and decided to cut them down to one meter. Pretty complex wiring inside that tested my soldering skills. Worked out well though.

 

[Mr Peabody]

Purchased a set of MITerminator 2s in the late 90s. After that I stopped buying monster products. Pulled them out of storage a couple weeks ago to run a couple monoblocks to my Martin Logan Quest Zs and decided to cut them down to one meter. Pretty complex wiring inside that tested my soldering skills. Work

Not sure why you'd cut them down a little extra wire on the ground isn't a big deal more importantly the networks are likely tuned to the length of cable.

 

[RepublicOfTexas69]

I lived in Maine for 12 years. I know Karen, her husband, and Carl. I was at Karen's house when they first started terminating MIT cables.

Then have at it.... Give her a call

 

[W9TR]

Sure are.
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I think to understand the genesis of what Bruce Brisson of MIT originally did you have to go back to the bad old days of harsh digital and high bandwidth high negative feedback stereo power amps of the late 80’s and early 90’s. The network box in his cables was a low pass filter - usually an inductor that rolled off the highs and reduced the harshness. You put ‘em in and voilá, your system sounded better, more relaxed, more analog. Transparent did the same thing. The patent is an interesting read. The original concept was to eliminate a high frequency resonance in the cable caused by its inductance and capacitance.
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[bfreidah]

Not sure why you'd cut them down a little extra wire on the ground isn't a big deal more importantly the networks are likely tuned to the length of cable.

Strictly for esthetic reasons as the new monoblocks sits alongside each speaker so I had an extra 8 feet per side of extra cable.

 

[Mr Peabody]

I think to understand the genesis of what Bruce Brisson of MIT originally did you have to go back to the bad old days of harsh digital and high bandwidth high negative feedback stereo power amps of the late 80’s and early 90’s. The network box in his cables was a low pass filter - usually an inductor that rolled off the highs and reduced the harshness. You put ‘em in and voilá, your system sounded better, more relaxed, more analog. Transparent did the same thing. The patent is an interesting read. The original concept was to eliminate a high frequency resonance in the cable caused by its inductance and capacitance.
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When I began using Transparent around early 2000's the improvement was much better bass and I did not notice any roll off in the highs. I was using Krell at the time. Hard to imagine better bass the cables helped with additional definition and visceral impact.

 

[Mr Peabody]

Strictly for esthetic reasons as the new monoblocks sits alongside each speaker so I had an extra 8 feet per side of extra cable.

I've only used MIT power. I know for sure Transparent networks are tuned specifically for the length of cable. My fear for you your cables may not be functioning as originally intended and may even be worse performance.

 

[Mikado463]

Not sure why you'd cut them down a little extra wire on the ground isn't a big deal more importantly the networks are likely tuned to the length of cable.

well for one reason electrostatic speakers can be speaker cable sensitive(capacitence)

 

[W9TR]

When I began using Transparent around early 2000's the improvement was much better bass and I did not notice any roll off in the highs. I was using Krell at the time. Hard to imagine better bass the cables helped with additional definition and visceral impact.

I found the same thing. Bass improved dramatically and I got smoother highs, too.

 

[mep]

Then have at it.... Give her a call

You never answered my original question and now you want me to call Karen to decipher what you wrote in this thread?

 

[RepublicOfTexas69]

You never answered my original question and now you want me to call Karen to decipher what you wrote in this thread?

It has been implied that Bruce and Jack had some issues when they were partners. Karen had eluded to this some time back. Now there you have it, and it may all be BS. Have a nice weekend...

 

[Mr Peabody]

well for one reason electrostatic speakers can be speaker cable sensitive(capacitence)

Even more reason not to. Assuming the MIT is similar to Transparent the networks are designed based on the specs of the particular length of cable.

 

[Mr Peabody]

BFreidah didn't mention which model MIT I did look at some info and the networks, are, designed to the particular length of cable. Hard to predict what impact.

 

[Mikado463]

Even more reason not to. Assuming the MIT is similar to Transparent the networks are designed based on the specs of the particular length of cable.

Do you understand capacitance with regards to speaker cables and electrostatic speakers ? a speaker cable with a higher capacitance per foot rating 'can' be problematic with a electrostatic speaker and on the extreme end possibly(depending on amplifier) send it into oscillation. I'm not saying the MIT fall into this scenario but those of us that have used Logans and other electrostatics for years know this all too well.