The $2200 HDMI cable @ BB

You decide....psychobabble or Gospel.

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MIT CVT Terminator 2 series (8ft Speaker Cables: $999.00 USD) (1m RCA interconnects: $499 USD) or (1m Balanced interconnects: $699 USD)

Music Interface Technologies, otherwise known as MIT, have been crafting high end cables since before I entered the first grade. Much like McIntosh, this California based company takes on the engineering-first design model. You will find no precious metals and geometries inside an MIT Cable. What you will find however, is a solid design that is based around the use of high quality conductors, connectors, good shielding, and a black network box. Ok, so the box may not be so common. Since the black box is so important to the MIT recipe, and since it is one of the least understood aspects of MIT?s design, I will attempt to explain the function of that box as best as I can.
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In short, MIT Cables main goal is to achieve absolute neutrality without compromising all the things we audiophiles love. The big challenge here is that practically every piece that makes up an audio cable has its own sound. While some variables seem impossible to control, the good folks at MIT Cable discovered that one of the main offenders that contributes to an uneven and unnatural presentation is perfectly controllable. As it turns out, it is all in the bandwidth!

According to MIT, a cable should be just as efficient at 80Hz as it is at 15kHz. The problem is that the founder and head engineer of MIT Cables, Bruce Brisson, found that no cable is fully capable of maintaining its linearity while transferring a full range signal from point A to point B. The reason is because every conductor inside of a cable has a point along its bandwidth in which it is weak (or inefficient). So, while a conductor may be great at transferring a signal within a certain frequency range(say for example, between 2 and 12kHz), it?s the rest of the frequency band that it?s not so great at covering that is the problem. The cables inability to transfer the entire signal without creating ?holes? along the way results in performance robbing energy loss. This energy loss translates into limited bandwidth, which as Bruce discovered, has very audible consequences. One of the greatest challenges Bruce and his team at MIT faced was figuring out how to develop a cable that could maintain its integrity while sending a full range signal from point A to point B.

The answer came in the form of surrounding the main conductors inside of the cable with a series of micro-conductors. You see, while each individual conductor may have a hole in its frequency response, it also has a point where it is quite efficient. The job of the micro-conductors is to counter the energy loss at its weak points in order to maximize its efficiency at strong points. The idea here is to control energy loss. If you can manage to set up these micro-conductors in sequential order to the point of controlling the entire frequency response of the cable, then you will ultimately end up with a truly efficient (and audibly neutral) cable.

The idea worked well, but there were still some problems to sort out. Not only would the added cost of running all these extra conductors make the cable insanely expensive, but it would also make the cable insanely thick as well. Ultimately, the final solution came in the form of an innovative network circuit designed to store and release energy much in the way the micro-conductors did, only without the additional bulk and expense. Now that?s what I would refer to as a win/win/(/win?) solution!

Although the primarily focus of this article is on how the MIT / McIntosh combo performs, it is worth mentioning that the CVT cables performed exceptionally well across every type of system that I hooked them up to. From tubes to all variations of solid state, from electrostatics to cones and domes, the sound always remained well balanced, well extended, detailed, and full. You could say that these cables do exactly what any good cable should do. They get out of the way so the signal so that everything else can have its own voice.

I was really only interested in Mantis' take on it . Not trolling, stop being a preachy **** and grow up.:rolleyes:

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