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MIT Oracle MA Digital AES/EBU

I have been on a digital cable quest for a while now. The cable runs from my Logitech Transporter to Berkeley DAC and I have found through my trials that it is one of the most critical paths. The cables I have tried all sound very different and alter the sound even more than changing interconnects. It was surprising to me as I thought these changes would be subtle. I have tried most of the typical cables discussed (Valhalla, Emotion, Sextet etc) and seem to always return to my MIT Proline Digital Reference (the newer one with the metal connectors). Most of what it does seems right however I find it somewhat slow, dark and muted. I am inclined to try the Oracle but boy is it pricey and I am leery of just how much of that will be corrected. Any owners of this cable out there that may be able to comment on it's general sonic character and even how it compares to the Proline Digital Reference? I have found zero information about it and never seen it discussed...Thanks!!
richard_stacy
camb
164 posts
 
Thanks Richard,

Yes, it's a little strange how finicky the Sooloos is. Its performance is impacted not only by digital cable but also by where I place it (it was dynamically flat when placed on the shelf above my amp - much better when moved far away from the amp) and where I plug it in (highs were really rolled off when it was plugged into the same Nordost power bar as the rest of my equipment). Aside from placement and power source there's not much else to tinker with, as it has it's own ac to dac power cord/ transformer. Maybe I can try some sort of simple power conditioner to keep it from feeding noise into the powerline?

Cheers,

Cam
camb
164 posts
 
As a follow up, I found a way to turn off the up sampling and apodising filter in the Sooloos and now the sound is very open with extended high frequencies - with the MIT Oracle digital cable in place. Turns out the MIT cable was not the culprit after all.
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audioman58
4,200 posts
 
For money's spent the Wireworld Platinum USB, and Digital cables together are amazingly good ,I have had AQ Diamind also good
More realism and depth with the Wireworld combo and under $1500
For both 1/2 m length. For digital some say you need at least. Meter.
Ii have found with Wireworld as the only comparison I did ,and -0
Drop in sonic integrity. Wireworlds geometric makeup tends to use bigger diameter conductors ,this may have something to do with it.
Personally I think th Kubala cables ar getting over priced IMO
But still a very good product.
beolab
6 posts
 
@crystalref 

You wrote: 
”01-23-2010 1:05pm
I use the MIT Oracle MA digital cable with BNC terminations as a clock cable between my dCS Paganini transport & DAC with Siltech Classic Anniversary G7 Firewire cable for signal transfer. In my installation, the improvement in sound quality pursuaded me to dispense with the additional Paganini master clock as I did not feel that it brought any more to the party.” 

I got the following setup: 

dCS Puccini latest FW/SW 1.41 
dCS Puccini U-Clock PUC latest SW/ FW
dCS Network Bridge 

and i am using the two MIT Oracle MA-X digital 1m as word.clock cables in my dCS setup. 

I just got a question on what setting you had on the MA-X knob for best SQ? (Martin Raynlods at dCS recomends to set the MIT MA-X to the MAX setting when used as a Word Clock cable)

But it is always ibteresting to hear what you have find to sound best?

Looking forward for your answer! 

/ Fredrik
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