MIT Oracle V1.3 HR speaker cable
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Looks like I may try the Oracle v1.3 HR soon. I know my speakers are wired internally with transparent, but they are never discounted much...I refuse to entertain $40,000 speakers wires. It's the one last bit of sanity I have left in this obsessive hobby. Online, the 50% off for MIT seems very appealing.
I've used MIT products for many years, way too many models/lines to list. I currently use the upper tier stuff with Spectral/Sasha's. I would be looking at the Matrix cable way before spending that kind of cash (and I have had the V. line). I'm also not so sure it's going to give you a true impression of what the cables are capable of without using them with similar MIT ic's, at least that has been my experience. Will they be good? Yes, I think they will but they will not sound at all what they would with similar ic's.
As for your/our speakers being wired with Transparent, personally I think that is meaningless. What makes cables like MIT or Transparent go are the networks, not at all the wire itself which is what is deep within those giant shiny speakers. Pretty sure there are no network boxes in there! Same with the concept that they show together. We could look back over the years and find plenty of shows with Wilson/MIT along with a few other combo's right? Just my 2 cents!
Whatever you do I think it's great that you are giving them a go. I really have not found anything quite like them and consider them essential to my system's performance.
As for your/our speakers being wired with Transparent, personally I think that is meaningless. What makes cables like MIT or Transparent go are the networks, not at all the wire itself which is what is deep within those giant shiny speakers. Pretty sure there are no network boxes in there! Same with the concept that they show together. We could look back over the years and find plenty of shows with Wilson/MIT along with a few other combo's right? Just my 2 cents!
Whatever you do I think it's great that you are giving them a go. I really have not found anything quite like them and consider them essential to my system's performance.
Agreed on all counts, especially on trying the Matrix over the online offerings. Moreover, one has to read the MIT patents to appreciate the level of thinking that goes into these _interfaces_; and why anyone else's lack of similar technological patents is what sets MIT far apart, though not necessarily to everyone's liking. On Transparent, if all there is in their boxes is a Zobel network as people have claimed, then how do they justify their prices?
The logical progression for me would be to see if they blow me away in the speaker wire dept., then work backwards from amp to pre, then source. If you do it all at once, you will never really know where the greatest impact was.
I'm on day 8 of a MIT recommended 2 week burn in of the Oracle V1.3HR speaker cables. Days 6 & 7 weren't so hot. They definitely took a step backward.
I got home a little over an hour ago and sat down to see what progress was made since last night and....... WOW!
I'm not proud to say I've been through more than one pair of six figure loudspeakers and 4 or 5 sets of $40K+ amplifiers over the years but dare I say, these speaker cables might be the single greatest component upgrade I have ever experienced. The soundstage alone with layering, width, depth and the appearance of 3 dimensional instruments on the stage is staggering to me. I've heard it before but nothing like this.
There's supposedly six days of burn in left, can they really get better?
I got home a little over an hour ago and sat down to see what progress was made since last night and....... WOW!
I'm not proud to say I've been through more than one pair of six figure loudspeakers and 4 or 5 sets of $40K+ amplifiers over the years but dare I say, these speaker cables might be the single greatest component upgrade I have ever experienced. The soundstage alone with layering, width, depth and the appearance of 3 dimensional instruments on the stage is staggering to me. I've heard it before but nothing like this.
There's supposedly six days of burn in left, can they really get better?
Again, I'm on the bottom rung of MIT speaker cables. I just made a trade-in with Joe Abrams with my Shotgun S3 bi-wire cables for a pair of S1.3 bi-wire cables. Joe just ordered the new cables from MIT so it will be awhile until I get them. I was given a very fair trade-in price for my "old" cables toward the new ones. I'm looking forward to hearing the new ones. I can't say enough good things about Joe Abrams. I find him to be an honorable man who gives good advice about your system and what will work best for your budget.
Only problem is I gotta get up at 5am tomorrow and its 11:30pm but I don't want turn the darn thing off.
I went to the MIT cable website. What is the difference between the online products and the products only avail in store? The v1.3 is the top line cable online...but there is something else that is top line in store. Thanks for any guidance.
thank you! Sorry...was rushing in the am and did not have chance to properly go thru the whole website, which i could not navigate particularly well.
I tend to agree with sly30 for the most part although MIT is not going to come right out and say this (for obvious reasons). They do strongly elude to it if you read carefully, for example "MA technology takes the 2C3D technology to a different performance level". This is old text too as they really don't use "MA" much anymore, just a few models now. I think it's sort of like the SD/HD switch on the upper tier speaker cables, the online stuff being more akin to the SD position, the Matrix more like the HD position. I think the majority of people that have those switches keep them firmly set on HD, of course I do not know this for fact. Why pay for 120 poles and keep the device set at 90. Regardless, it is all very confusing!
In the end, I sure love the heck out of mine
In the end, I sure love the heck out of mine
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