MIT's not good for tube components?

Nickt
Aren't you selling MIT Oracle's right now?I seen your ad .

Nsgarch provides many valuable comments here. I too ran with the 330 for many years and still use it in my HT setup. Compared to the latest offerings by many companies, the 330 is severely rolled off at the extremes and only has mediocre resolution. But this model does not at all reflect the top MIT models of a 5-6 years ago or today.

I have not heard the MIT V series ICs or speaker cables, but I ran with the 350 Ref Proline and 350 EVO which were the top MIT lines preceeding the V series. For the money, these are unbeatable in longer lengths. The price hit is only the first meter so if you need a long length from preamp to amps, this is an awesome value. And this is what I used for many years from various ARC preamps and amps (all tube) as well as BAT and Aesthetix preamps and Wolcott amps....again, all tube. The only issue with the MIT cables here was a slight valley in the mids. But I was able to compensate well by using Coincident speaker cables that were a bit too rich in the mids.

I have sense moved onto the Purist cables and have not looked back. These cover the frequency extremes, far more dynamic and more tonally coherent than the MIT models I listed above. Before you pay the multi-thousand $$ price of the top MIT models, you need to look into the Purist. But one thing for sure, the MIT cables' performance work mighty fine with tubes.

John

Yioryos,
Yes I am selling MIT Oracle ic cables. However they are not what he was looking for. And I dont own any tube amps. I have Accuphase amplifiers and B&W speakers.
Nick

I keep seeing these great reviews of MIT Cables. I finally(!) found their website www.mitcables.com and again found myself frustrated.

I couldn't get through all of the prompts to get myself introduced to them. Bummer of a web page.

I agree with Jeff -- (MITs's hard-to-navigate website)
And I agree with John -- Purist makes amazing products. They won't "musch" a tube system, and they won't make a ss system sound like glass breaking!

Some of our great old standby manufacturers seem to have rested on their laurels for a long time now, without much in the way of design innovation/improvements. I'm talking about: Monster, MIT, Audioquest, Kimber, Straightwire, XLO, Magnan, and a few others I can't think of right now.

With Purist, even their bottom-of-the-line Musaeus outclasses the best of many of the aforementioned manufacturer's best offerings. Here's a case in point:

I have an all Purist (Venustas) system (even the phono cables and some Dominus power cords.) EXCEPT, I never did get around to replacing the ICs on my cassette deck (2 pair of Straightwire Maestro 2's) or on my tuner (MIT 330s)

I bought a used pair of Musaeus to use on my cassette deck as soon as I could find a second pair. In the meantime I thought I'd swap out the MIT 330s on my tuner. The tuner is an old Technics ST 9030, recently aligned and modded. Although it's a great tuner, I was disappointed in the only very small improvement after the mods. So you can imagine my surprise and delight when after installing the Purist Musaeus cable, the sound of the tuner improved several quantum leaps! Deep bass, great vocals, a real soundstage. It was just amazing, and as an unintended A-B comparison it really knocked my socks off!

The moral of the story: Always look for those manufacturers that are making real mechanical/electrical design innovations, and not just using fancier materials, etc. (Transfiguration cartridges, the new Martin Logan Summits are two other examples.) As for cables, right now, the ones that fall into that category (in descending order IMO) are Siltech and Purist, Transparent, Madrigal CZ Gel, Nordost. (I may have missed a couple.)