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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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cornfedboy
1,645 posts
 
anybody else seen "american psycho"? cables are kids' stuff. i use a chain saw on amps. so far, have interesting bits and pieces of burmesters, mlb's and halcro's. haven't learned anything, but it sure was fun.
-kelly
no_money
565 posts
 
Mike, DO NOT LET TROY borrow your cables!!! Kelly, make sure and wear your earplugs and safety glasses.
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tarichar OP
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I thought people would be interested in knowing what was in the boxes- I had come across several posts in the past in which people had asked about the contents of the networks. I have a BS in Electrical engineering and was always very interested in EM theory and signal conduction, and this is why I have studied various interconnects.

Regarding the Opus, I'm sure you could open it up and then put it back together. If you mess it up, see if it could be fixed under warranty. The Opus network most likely cosists of the same RLC network, just different values and higher tolerance parts.

Troy
jaykapur
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It would have been nice to see what the circuit actually was as well as the RLC values. Then we could make calculations on the signal attenuation, the effect on RF shielding, and transmission line effects.

Interesting that the terminations are high quality, but the circuit was not.
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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