MIT Shotgun cables!!!

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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 2,987
    edited January 2018
    Anybody ever play with these???
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    From MIT's website: http://www.mitcables.com/legacy-products/speaker-interfaces/tmax-super-speaker-modules/menu-id-264.html After all, I am a 'sensitive listener' :p I will consider these fun toys...unless they sound really good. 4, count 'em, 4 articulation poles in these bad boys ;) The newest MIT speaker interfaces have like 40 articulation poles, but hey, ya gotta start somewhere.

    I'm going to see if MIT will sell me a length of their OneWire RG59 coax cable as is called for. http://www.mitcables.com/legacy-products/onewire-silver-dual-shield-rg-59.html Does anyone have suggestions for an alternate RG59 if they won't sell me some of theirs?

    Ok, I'm off to buy some iconn interfaces!

    EDIT: I see now that MIT's OneWire cable is considered a 'legacy' product by them, so I'm guessing a no-go there. I'm thinking I'll go with Blue Jean Cables for some coax.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,704
    No idea about them.
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 2,987
    Following-up on the MIT Speaker Modules. First had to get some of MIT's iconn connectors. I went with spades for the amp end, and banana plugs for the speaker end.
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    Connected the modules with Belken 1505A RF cable from BJC. On the floor, you can still see the copper stranded Monoprice cable that the new cable was replacing :#
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    So the sound...it is improved B) There's more air around the instruments, and I can pick-up more nuances of the player's technique - strumming, picking, bows across strings. Everything is a bit crisper.

    I have to say, for the money spent - $100 for the modules, $65 for the iconn connectors, and $41 for the cables - it's a good investment. And it gives me a taste of the how the upper-echelon MIT cables with more articulation points must sound.

    Other equipment used: Logitech SBT -> Peachtree Audio novaPre hybrid w/DAC -> Eastern Electric MiniMax BBA -> McCormack DNA-125 -> Infinity RSIIIa

    Color me impressed...or enlightened.
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