Troy: I think its great that you opened them and especially great that you posted that info for us!! thanks .... Frankly I don't like the muffled sound of Transparent cables and would rather get all of the music to my speakers. I think that "quiet background in between notes" people rave about is due to the "network" rolling off the highs (thereby reducing the hiss). I'm more interested in how natural the music sounds during the notes! (I prefer NBS cables.)
I opened both MIT and Transparent netwks
I have opened both MIT and Transparent networks to see what was in them. In both cases, it was very similar. In both, I found an inductor, capacitor, and a resistor. They were connected between the signal and ground in a novel way. Both were encased in an epoxy or glue that I had to break to see what was in it. The wire in both networks appeared to be just simple copper wire, and the soldering work was sloppy and ugly. It made me very upset. However, I do think that both MIT and Transparent make very good cables- the MIT's excel in bloom and soundstaging while the Transparents allow a deep silence between notes- a very low noise floor. BTW, I have also cut open a transparent reference digital interconnect, audioquest corals, NBS, and Cardas twinlinks and hexlinks. The Cardas had amazing workmanship and wonderful soldering in even their cheapest cable.
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