Similar sound characteractics to MIT cables?


hi, does anyone know of other brands interconnects and speakers cables that have a house sound that's similar to MIT cables? but without those MIT network box? MIT cables sound relax, a tad laid back, yet clear and no veil/curtain between performance and listener, dynamic are natural without harshness.

Thanks for any replies.

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Current MIT products offer more of everything compared to normal wire.  Dynamics and low level detail are hallmarks of their design as well as correct tone and lack of distortion.  Joe Abrams at Equus audio is an invaluable asset for audio information and MIT CABLES!!

Just to be clear, I've owned and Demo'd a good number of AQ cables.  They are not superior to MIT designs by a long shot.  You will find overemphasis and a slight hardness in the AQ designs, especially the silver looms.  I currently use Oracle 3.5 cabling and it is breathtakingly far and above any other cable design I have owned or used on loan...and that's a ton of cables!  Perhaps those of you referencing MIT CABLES have not heard recent designs or have not used them properly or fully burned in.  
Live music is never squished my friends.  Unless you are in a uniquely dead listening inviron!  Ex., the BSO sounds explosive and blooms sweetly as it washes over you with wave after wave of dynamically blissful musical notes. A bassoon alone can fill the hall with burnished golden airwaves of divine musical magic!  If you like constrained, laser etched images with compressed sound then AQ IS your ticket.  Live music is alive, it ebbs and flows and breathes...it expands and contracts and flows all around the soundscape and when it behaves, MIT will dial it in realistically but never stripping away the fullness of notes or dynamic expression.
I am running MIT Oracle 3.5 series Cabled and Oracle PC's on an all Krell system...listening to your favorite music through it would likely make you piss your pants!  Let me put it in Bonese lingo...I make the 3D sound amazing.  Sound is real and you feel and see it..people are amazed at how all the parts put together are more than one.  You can experience true 3D sound only when I put parts together that let you experience real true sound...only my special ears and stereo parts I sell can create this sound!  
 Bo!  I knew you would appreciate my humor but not that much...sorry you wet yourself.
Colorado...although I did have a listen to the WEL cables as well.  I should also mention the I have tried, owned or Demo'd at home many various cables/designs over the years.  MIT's Magnum and Oracle lines deliver so much more of the music to my ears that it is not even close.  Accurate tone, dynamic freedom, low level detail and a soundstage you can swim in are some of the obvious attributes.  A symphony sounds majestic and to sly correct in pitch and timbre...just thrilling while remaining organic sounding without roll off in frequencies.  Highs have weight and expression, midrange is full and full of life while the bass is simply stunning in tone and texture.
Just finished listening to Shostakovich's Symphonies no 8 and no 5 on my system.  The soundstage was wall to wall with floor to ceiling height and massive dynamics yet emotionally gripping in its delicacy and expressiveness! The 5th on SACD was recorded at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.  My brother and I were there...you can hear us yelling Bravo repeatedly at the end of the performance as it fades out.  My only concession is that it didn't sound small and etched like it did through the AQ's I had purchased from Music Direct...maybe if they came with ear muffs I could have lived with them:)
Full loom preferable to obtain what I described, but if you wish to get a feel for some of what is possible then speaker interfaces are best.  Yes, very low noise floor after 2week 24/7 break in!  I use an Oracle AC2 PC on my amp and Transparent MM2 on my Cipher.  See 6 moons review of Magnum 1.3 loom...very accurate review.
Silver gives conventional cables the apparent increase in detail but does not give you accurate tone or timbre.
Bo, something we can finally agree on...separate DAC's etc. have not sounded as good to my ears as a great one box design!  There is hope for us AFTERALL, just not in cable land:()
Guess what Bo?  I decided to change my speaker cables afterall......drumroll......to......M.....I......T.....Magnum M1.5 Biwires!!  Yay for me   Were you expecting something else Bo?   Maybe cables with an A or a Q in their name and some silver inside?  Silly Bo
mdp632, if you wish to know more and want to explore MIT cables further I would recommend contacting Joe Abrams at Equus Audio online.  You will not find a more knowledgable person about all things audio or a better source for the best deals in MIT cables.