Thanks Dave. I can't stress MIT enough. The Shotgun 330 Proline XLR interconnect is just the most awesome interconnect you can ever use for less than a grand, with balanced equipment, especially Krell, IMO. I think there is no flaw in these at all with my Krell KAV-250a, when driven with the balanced outputs of my CD50 (I have no balanced linestage at the present time, and don't need one for the CD50 anyway)......I've tried Cardas Neutral Reference speaker and ic, and there is no comparison at all between those and the MIT 330, combined with the low cost (and now discontinued) Terminator 2 speaker cable (I tried the corresponding 750 speaker cable, didn't like it at all...so I don't "blindly love" every cable MIT makes). I feel that this combo (with the right power cords and room set-up) gets very close to what my Rogue tube amp does "right" (and that's with other cables, however), and does things that NO tube amp I've ever heard can do, especially the effortless macro dynamic swings that give the feeling of lifelike acoustic power on ANY recording...also the MIT cabling actually increases the apparent/perceived damping factor of the power amp, even when driven at earsplitting levels (like louder than you can yell over with someone next to you...not a good idea to do often though, lol!). In my observations, there is barely some sacrfifice of absolute bass extension with the MIT cables (compared to others), in exchange for pitch control, dynamic weight/slam, and tube-like "musical roundness" from the middle bass and upward that can almost frighten you. I'm talking REAL power, with imaging that is so SOLID and DIFFERENTIATED, that you could likely fool people who are blindfolded (but perhaps not most musicians...maybe a few), that there isn't a REAL instrument in the room with them (with parts of certain recordings, that is, but not necessarily with the entire duration of such recordings...but still no small feat IMO!). Anyway, the sheer power delivery is something that I gurantee you will never get with ohter cables, including other terminated ones like Transparent. I'd bet my life on that! In my experience, NBS is more dynamic than Transparent, but is still almost asleep compared to the better MIT cables. My feeling is that those who hate MIT (and who have actually tried it) do so because their room isn't set up properly, and the tonal and dynamic balance aren't being fully realized...and are even being countered by other anomalies that other cables can hide. In other words, if there is a problem with the speaker or the room, it could very likely sound much worse with an MIT cable in the system. If you have all first reflection points damped, have round traps in the corners, and tweak the speaker placement by fractions of an inch (and can spend the time it takes to do this), I can alsmost gurantee that just about everyone else's system you'll come across, will cause you to lose respect for them (especially if they're a dealer with the resources to do it right, but with the brains and ears to do it wrong...to compromise when a compromise isn't called for, etc.).
