Transparent Speaker cable and interconnects

I have recently tried several different balanced ICs - top models from Fadel Art, AudioQuest, Cardas, Nordost and Transparent Reference w/MM.

Fadel Art Coherence was the best one - the most organic, natural sounding - very coherent indeed.

The close second was AQ Sky - almost as good as Fadel, but a tiny bit brighter on top and not THAT smooth. Skys are the cables I'm using right now, but I will probably switch to Fadel Coherence.

The all other cables I have tried, were more or less problematic. The Nordost was too lean in lower midrange, Cardas was simply not transparent enough, and Transparent was not harmonicly correct (which was a big surprise for me). Transparent was also twice as expensive as Fadel.

I'd suggest Stealth cables. They just blew away my Synergistic Absolute Ref. cables in every area. I'll soon upgrade to all Stealth cables, power, IC, and speaker cables. They are very natural sounding and reasonably priced. Just give them a try.

This came from a very illuminating post from another thread here in the Cable forum.

http://cable.tcnerd.com/whymit.asp.

Fiddler, I know, I saw those pics a couple of years ago. More "humiliating" than "illuminating" I'd say!!

One can only hope they've gotten their act together since then. Nevertheless, many people who are (financially) in the Purist-V.Dynamics-Siltech-MIT Oracle league swear by the top of the line Transparents. I've not heard them in my current system.

On the other hand, I still use my old MIT 330s for secondary purposes sometimes and they're really good.

Why would you assume they've gotten their act together? And how do you know that other high-end cable makers don't have similarly empty network boxes? (This isn't the first case I've heard of.) For that matter, why would anyone buy a cable with such a box WITHOUT knowing what's in it?