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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.

Troy
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mikelavigne
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let me know when you cut open the transparent opus mm :-)
mikelavigne
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according to the literature supplied with the opus the network technology is "a refinement of transparent's computer model for network design". it requires "tolerances of 1/100 of an ohm and 1 picofarad".

from this literature it appears that the real performance gains of the opus are made in the damping and suspension of the networks.

btw, no one is touching these networks. it really doesn't matter to me how they do what they do. but i understand that inquiring minds want to know. i just want to listen.
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