Tm12, I need to stop responding to you now, but I can't. You must have Kryptonite.....BOTH my uncle (mother's brother) AND first cousin (his oldest son), got DOCTORATE engineering degrees from MIT (yes, that one in Massachusettes...professor Bose is held in high regard around those parts, BTW...I've seen the laboratory, you should visit, heh heh.)........................My uncle thinks "digital is digital, it's all the same". He heard my system playing only an FM radio source, and was AGASP. My cousin is now adjunct faculty at Massachusettes Institute of Technology, besides having several of his own firms in the hi-tech field. He was surprised a couple of years ago, when I informed him that quality audio electronics were made in places other than Japan, and were different than its mass market stuff (Yes, I doubt either had ever paid the nearby Goodwins' Highend a visit...I didn't either, didn't have time, or my own car on my last visit to yankee-land...maybe next year)...................Tm12, if you'd shut your pie hole the hell up sometime, YOU might learn something...but I seriously doubt it, dude!.......................Do I think it was cheesy of Music Interface Technologies to chose that same acronym for their brand name? Hell yes I do, but that doesn't diminish the quality of their products in the least!!!! Cables (and everything) sell for whatever the market will pay; I guess you must not have gotten past junior high school, not to have known this simple fact. Supply needs to meet demand, and if someone can afford to pay for an expensive cable, and finds its sonic advantage over others in his system, I DON'T BEGRUDGE HIM A FREAKING BIT!!! The fact that you do proves how insolent and retarded you are! I am not a rich man (likely not as rich as EVEN YOU, my resources are quite humble). That's why I buy my cables (and everything) mostly USED. At the used price, in the right system, MIT's top of the line cables (I have that interconnect) can NOT be beat by anything...In my all encompassing, omnitient, everlasting, and righteous opinion...................Do you know how to listen? I do, but I doubt you do. DB tests are for consumer reports wussie tree huggers, every audiophile knows that. (I repeat, are you Noel Anderson?) Those test results are always skewed by tension variables (Michael Fremer a decade ago was the excpetion...that's why everybody resented him for so long). And yes, I can hear better than you, and all your buddies too...So if you want to talk DB tests, post on a page where all audio components are thought to sound the same. In other words, "you be going away now, you no coming back here no mo'"...good day, sir, and take up fishing or gardening...