Actually Karen Sumner worked for MIT before starting Transparent Cable. I don't know if there was any financial transactions between the two but MIT was around first and I believe Karen was Bruce's sales representative. I know she also had represented some electronics back then as well.Isn't hi-fi history that Transparent purchased Bruce Brisson's original patents.
Later Brisson went on to found MIT and develop his own technologies that are exclusive to MIT.
For example, Poles of Articulation.
MIT and Transparent have no engineering similarities today.
Btw, MIT's Flagship AAC 268 rev2 retail for over 100k US MSRP currently.
Marty,Good one!! The answer is.... more!
MB Ultra speaker cables cost a lot less than 72K.
Actually I went from Oracle MA something (90?) SHD rev 2 to MB Ultras for not a big $ difference, but then again, the MITs retailed for about half of the latest Transparent Magnum Opus. Of course, all 3 are excellent speaker cables and a preference decision, but the TMO takes the retail prize and by a considerable amount.
For 72K, you could probably rent out the Philadelphia Orchestra, but that's not realistic as they wouldn't all be able to fit into my listening room.
Ah, but this is a story that's as old as the hills, and one that we know for sure is not true! Same story for the cables that process 1's and 0's.Marty,
... good scientists will tell us that all decently designed cables should sound the same,..
Far from it. MIT was founded in 1984 and Transparent in 1987, and at some point the principal was the MIT distributor probably before 1987 (memory fades). Transparent then moved on to essentially copy MIT's designs of that era (a simple low-pass filter) and have been stuck with the same idea since then, while MIT moved on to other approaches like these articulation poles and other recent "technologies".Isn't hi-fi history that Transparent purchased Bruce Brisson's original patents.
Later Brisson went on to found MIT and develop his own technologies that are exclusive to MIT.
Far from it. MIT was founded in 1984 and Transparent in 1987, and at some point the principal was the MIT distributor probably before 1987 (memory fades). Transparent then moved on to essentially copy MIT's designs of that era (a simple low-pass filter) and have been stuck with the same idea since then, while MIT moved on to other approaches like these articulation poles and other recent "technologies".
Dave, I'm curious about that too...I like Transparent cables, I've had them since early mm2. I wonder how much input Josh had before leaving for Rockport?
This time the new G6 change seems to focus on the shell material rather than the internal network
Let me guess ; i once cracked open an old low level MIT cable and it had a coil in series , the transparent one had a cap wired parallel .As far as I remember the legal issues between MIT and the new Transparent came down to one used series wiring and one used parallel wiring...