Transparent Speaker cable and interconnects

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?