Transparent cables MM and MM2

I can tell you from my personal experience that the MM2 is at the very least, one level higher when comparing the same level in MM1 but it is probably more like two levels. When I made the upgrade from Super MM1 to Ultra MM2, I took home a set of loaner Ultra MM1 IC's and Ultra MM1 biwire speaker cables from my local store that were already broken in so that I could have an idea as to the difference between the two for myself. I listened to those loaner cables for 4 days and nights untill I was able to pick up my new cables at Transparent. After only 3 days of running the new Ultra MM2 in my system they were already ahead of the Ultra MM1 and they were not even broken in yet. I also asked a local rep that works for Transparent when I was at their office the same question and he swore the upgrade was more like a 2 level jump. He also assured me that the Ultra MM2 was better choice than the Ref.MM1. The MM2 technology was taken from the Opus line...If you have seen my system in the Virtual section, you will know that I'm serious about cables. I hope this helps.

Nolitan, To answer your question, should your IC's be better than the speaker cables... I do not think there is any wrong answer. My personal feeling is that the closer the improvements are to the source end, the better. That was how I built up my current system. I have also experimented with swapping my Ulta MM2 IC's from the front channels with my Super MM1 from the rear channels and running with my Ultra MM2 speaker cables for 2 days. I came up with the conclusion that if you are going to fork out the dough for the MM2 technology then you should try to match the technologies with both IC's and speaker cables. If you believe like I do that we are only as good as the weekest link, then you should pick a side and start from there. There is no right or wrong with this stuff. Any time we substitue a cable, components, tweaks, ect. its affects can be positive or negative, thats what makes this fun, Good Luck!