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I agree that silver has a place in balance but all silver IC's or spkr cables no!  As for the intimate thing...that is heavily influenced by the environment and the material.  An acoustically damped room will kill bloom and dynamics.  Voice can sound tamped down and localized depending on venue, but it can also soar and bloom and resonate.  A single saxophone can fill a large room with dynamics and resonant bloom.  To kill the acoustic envelope so you can focus it down to an intimate lifeless husk is not my cup of tea.  Live music has explosive dynamics and acoustic bloom and resonance that expands to fill a room...it is not politely contained.

It is not the acoustics, a voice and even an instrument is extreemly small and direct. AQ cabels win in resolution and decay of each MIT cable with ease. 

You need to auditioned many live acoustic small shows to understand it. Then you understand what it means and that MIT lacks a realistic individual focus and has a low black level as well.

Out level in resolution and deacy is so much bigger than when we audition any set at an audio shop or show. Because we can adapt much more different parts in a set. 

A realistic proportion of instruments and voices is a totally different part than resolution and decay. A voice or instrument get a realistic shape when yiu can create a deep and wide stage, but also a sharp and intimate focus of instruments and voices. You need a lot of air around voices.

In this part the AQ silver interconnects blow away the low detail cables of MIT. It was very easy to listen the limitation of the MIT cables.

For the loudspeakercables we had the same outcome. Audioquest owns more different properties compared to MIT who owns less properties. This makes the overall sound more complete when you use and bring in the AQ cables.

We will have to agree that we disagree then....I'm assuming that you actually listen to live music and not just your audio setups, right?  Even the smallest instruments are extremely dynamic and not tightly focused in a live setting.  I understand what your trying to get at but it is unique to Hi Fi systems and not live music being played in a venue, unless that venue is closed in and acoustically damped.  Remember, imaging itself is a stereo system affectation and has little application in a live music environment.  

Bo, reflected on our conversation and it reminded me of a similiar situation I ran into with a local audiophile.  He had an extremely high end
system with a 20K vinyl rig and Avalon Eidolons etc..., which I thought would be exceptional to experience.  Bottom line is that he played music at an extremely low level, suffered severe humm issues and dynamic range limitations.  Bottom line is that I am often amazed at how many audiophiles have extremely bizarre listening habits that exhibit traits contrary to live music being recreated.  Attempts to controll the acoustic envelope and tighten a systems abillity to fully express the dynamic range and scale of the music is antithetical to Hi Fidelity!

I sold Avalon for over 6 years of time and even sold some to my best friends. But.....Avalon is very poor in intimate focus. 

Why? Because instruments and voices do not get the real shape and physical appearance as in real. They can create a deep and wide stage, but within this stage the individual focus of instruments ans voices is not as sharp and small as in real.

The biggest mistake is using MIT with Avalon. Why? Because this makes the stage even less intimate. When we did shootouts of MIT against AQ with Avalon speakers. The AQ were in each part superior.

You need to understand the properties of MIT before you can adapt them in a system.