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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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jaykapur
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Interesting that the soldering was poor on the Transparent. They always have claimed that their handbuilt cables has the highest workmanship.

The use of RLC between signal and ground is not surprising. We've known this. What would be nice to know is what the values of R,L, & C were and how the circuit was arranged.
jaykapur
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It would have been nice to see what the circuit actually was as well as the RLC values. Then we could make calculations on the signal attenuation, the effect on RF shielding, and transmission line effects.

Interesting that the terminations are high quality, but the circuit was not.
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