-Very refined, very accurate -Perfectly focused -Spot-on timbre accuracy -Beautiful layered textures -Instruments in 3-D space -Cable really excels in microdynamics -- spatial clues in recording venues jump right out at you, miking techniques etc. -Smooth extended upper end without over doing it -In a word...PERFECT.

Absolutely none.

These are bar none the finest interconnect I have ever heard -- PERIOD. Here's the story: I've tried a number of interconnects throughout my system over the years. I have always had good results with MIT so I purchased some Mh-750 shotgun speaker cable a few years back, real happy with it. Never had enough doe to try the shotgun interconnects -- mistake #1. I have about 150 hours on these 2 pairs, I wish I would have known how dramatic the difference these cables made years ago, I probably would had paid retail for them! WOW! If you value soundstaging, microdynamics, imaging, and DEEP taut bass go buy these cables. Be fore-warned: at least 100 hours are need for proper burn in.

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Cardas, XLO Signature 1.1, AudioTruth, Other MIT's

-Very refined, very accurate -Perfectly focused -Spot-on timbre accuracy -Beautiful layered textures -Instruments in 3-D space -Cable really excels in microdynamics -- spatial clues in recording venues jump right out at you, miking techniques etc. -Smooth extended upper end without over doing it -In a word...PERFECT.

Absolutely none.

These are bar none the finest interconnect I have ever heard -- PERIOD. Here's the story: I've tried a number of interconnects throughout my system over the years. I have always had good results with MIT so I purchased some Mh-750 shotgun speaker cable a few years back, real happy with it. Never had enough doe to try the shotgun interconnects -- mistake #1. I have about 150 hours on these 2 pairs, I wish I would have known how dramatic the difference these cables made years ago, I probably would had paid retail for them! WOW! If you value soundstaging, microdynamics, imaging, and DEEP taut bass go buy these cables. Be fore-warned: at least 100 hours are need for proper burn in.

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Cardas, XLO Signature 1.1, AudioTruth, Other MIT's

Like all MIT these need to be run in well. Sound changes for the first 300 hours.
The result is well worth the wait. I have now put MIT throughout and have never looked back.

Smooth, sweet mid/high; decent spearation.

Not great high extension; crummy, awful bass

I'd say these cables are overpriced and have terrible bass characteristics. I'm using these to connect a Wadia 850 CD player directly to a Classe CA-201 Amp, both of which offer truly balanced operation. Speakers are B&W Nautilus 803. Replaced Monster Interlink single-ended cable. My amp will produce 400 watts into 4 ohms (damping factor 470); my speakers are 8 ohms, 90db efficient and at the worst will fall to 3 ohms, so I should be getting tolerably tight bass, and was with the prior cables. One thing with these interconnects is that they really do take a long time to burn in; I wanted to give them a fair trial, so I ran them for close to 300 hours at high volume before judging their performance. The mid/high end frequencies sound sweet and nice, but not great at the highest frequencies ... things just sound a little "dampened." The biggest problem is the bass - mushy, muddy, indistinct. Boomy. It's immediately noticeable. I did an A/B trial against a pair of relatively inexpensive single-ended Monsters in the store (balanced cables will always sound cleaner), the first thing I said is that the highs sounded smoother on the MITs but the bass sounded muddy. They told me "oh, the floor models just aren't burned in yet." OK, so these are fully burned in and they still sound like crap. For $850, interconnects should sound better than this. I'd prefer to go back to my single-ended Monsters which, for $200, at least didn't turn the bass into oatmeal.

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Monster Interlink single-ended

AFTER A THREE MOTH LISTEN I AM GETTING RID OF MY MIT CABLES AND INTERCONNNECTS (MI 330 CVT AND MH 750 BI-WIRE). I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS WAS A PAINLESS EXPERIENCE BUT ACTUALLY IT IS COSTING QUITE A BIT TO DO SO. AFTER ABOUT TWO MONTHS I THE DISSATISFACTION SET IN, MOST OF MY CDS JUST DID NOT SOUND UP TO PAR AND MUSIC SEEMED TO TAKE ON A STRANGE DIMENTIONALITY--- I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE TERMINATOR CABLE MANUFACTURES ALL PLAY WITH THE PHASE RESPONSE IN THE LAST TWO OCTAVES TO CREATE SPACIAL EFFECTS--- I AM REFERING TO TRANSPARENT AND MIT. I AM PICKING UP A NEW SET OF CABLES TODAY--CARDAS GOLDEN CROSS INTERCONNECTS AND BI-WIRE SPEAKER CABLES. I COULD GO ON FOR PARAGRAPHS ABOUT MY AUDITION OF THESE CABLES WITHOUT DOING THEM JUSTICE--I WILL JUST SAY WHEN I FIRST SAT DOWN TO LISTEN I DIDNT GET UP FOR 7 HOURS--I VIRTUALLY LISTENED TO CUTS OF OF EVERY CD I HAD OWNED---EVERYTHING SOUNDED DIFFERENT(AMAZING) AND EVERYTHING I LISTENED TO SOUNDED BETTER THAN I HAD EVER HEARD IT BEFORE.

Funny that J. Vogt had almost the exact opposite impression of the MI 330 siinterconnects as me. Unless they require an extremely long break-in period,
I found them very much on the tizzy side, producing a "hi-fi ear" discomfort
in my system. Perhaps my system is bright but I don't think it's abnormal.
With Transparent Music Links it was certainly not, nor with Chord Company interconnects, but those are other stories.
I will grant that MIT had some good things -- great sense of rhythm and pace, and natural harmonics WHICH ARE NOT QUALITIES TO BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED OR IGNORE, WHICH AUDIOPHILES CHARACTERTISTICALLY DO. But in my sytem, aside from the firm bass, rather a lean sound especially compared to the Transparent ML, but the latter was suspect in the rythym dept; could it be that I used 2 meter pair with a passive preamp caused this rhythm problem? Any feedback out there is welcome.

A few closing impressions. First, my set-up is a Theta Basic II driving a Mod Squad passive preamp (via XLO Type 1, .5m), then 1 m MITs into a Bryston 3b. It's essential for my setup to have no more than 1 meter out of the pre-amp,
or else one begins to lose dynamics. Through 2m Transparent ML, I lost dynamics and bass was out of sync with other ranges, leading to a wierd and unpleasant effect -- however soon I will be able to compare 1 m of these with MITs, to give Transparent a fair shake. But a word to the wise is Keep Cables Short.
With yet more burn-in time, the MITs are proving very "transparent" themselves. They demand good electronics and good recordings. Mediocre CDs sound like just that. THEY DO REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT BURN-IN TIME. I purchased mine "pre-owned", yet discovered that they'd not been burned in at all -- my good fortune that the first owner probably didn't understand "burn-in".
They seemed to burn in from "bottom to top". Below I mentioned treble grain, but even this is disappearing. If there is a slight touch of hardness at times, this may be my system or particular recordings -- so I'd be unfair to attribute this to the cables. Once again, rated at 4 - 5 stars.

This is a note to my first review. That first review was hasty, it seems. My initial impression of tizziness was due to lack of burn-in of this cable, and after time the true character of the cable has become more evident. It is not tizzy although there may be a slight grain on the treble. Perhaps with lesser electronics it will be bright. Overall the cable is fairly transparent, reflecting the qualities of the electronics driving it. Bass is firm enough, sense of rhythm very good, dynamics come through well. If there is any real character to the cable, it is a tendency to leanness -- I've had cables in my system that sound very rich and full as comparison. I would recommend for jazz buffs, or any other music that needs good pace and rhythm. It certainly won't deaden that aspect of the music, like some cables do. Good value.

I do not change components often so my experience with different products is not extensive. However, I would like to post my experience with my recent upgrade from 330 plus series II interconnect to the new medium impedance 330 Shotgun series. On first listen to these cables I was very pleasantly suprised at the extreme difference in sound. The bass was much tighter and more prominent. My little Spica TC-60's never worked so hard. More extended on the high end also. Much more dynamic. Also a fair amount of additional detail. Vocals came through a little more transparent. I can now hear Jewel wet her lips. This was without even changing my speaker cable! (MIT T2)However after further listening I noticed that the soundstaging through the new cables is very different. On "The Wall" the speed and dynamics helped with the helicopter, however the lunatic was no longer in my room. Instead of being a big, round, centered vocal image you can reach out and touch, he is now a voice from a more distant point recessed into the speakers, and with not as much focus or body. This was the case on many of my CD's. This may be a more realistic presentation of the recordings, or it may be a result of my electronics (Audible Illusions/Adcom, probably not worthy of such costly cables). Sound seems thinner and more "solid state".
I originally purchased my first MIT cables for their soundstaging "character". The old 330's have been criticized as being colored. I think in some aspects they are much more natural than other cables. MIT's success seems to prove many agree with me and I feel the company may be now heading in the wrong direction.
I am being a little harsh but these cables do cost almost three times my old cables. Overall they are better than my old 330's, but not across the board. I will likely keep them, but will investigate other companies before buying speaker cable. Or maybe I'll do what any good audiophile should and dump a load of $$$ on a nice lush tube amp. Any suggestions?

I have demoed both the Terminator 2 Interconnects and Bi-Wired Speaker Cables last week when I was auditioning a preamp (soon to be a McCormack TLC-1 (Standard), that is going to replace a 1984 vintage Perreaux SM2), and needless to say, I was very impressed with their fine sound. Extended highs, a neutral and clear midrange, and tightly extended lows (Wow! Did I use these two adjectives together?!). These are the cables that could tighten up the lows I anticipate getting from the Vandersteen 2Ce's. They almost have no sonic footprint of their own (well, they do slightly sweeten the top-end, big deal.) In addition to the attributes stated above, they also have a nice soundstage with great depth. The speaker cables are unusually thick, and just like the interconnects, they have nicely designed network boxes.
Overall, a nice performance-to-price ratio. A lot of good sound without spending a lot of money.

Four Stars!!

Suggested Retail Prices:
(A). Interconnect: $130.00/Pr. (One Meter).
(B). Speaker Cable: $400.00/Pr. (8 Feet, Bi-Wired).