Anyone ever opened MIT cables?

Think "zobel network" and you won't be far off the truth of what is in the box!

I have a pair of MIT T5 speaker wire and opened one of them once. The solid core wire of the (+) half of the signal is separated from the stranded wire of the (+) inside the box. The solid core (+) wire is cut, soldered to 18 ga or so wire wrapped tighly many times around a core of some kind - is that an inductor? It's like a cheap speaker crossover component. The stranded wire continues uncut to the other end of the wire; while the solid core goes through the crossover component and is soldered back to the other end. The (-) side goes untouched through the network to the other side.

Cornfedboy, i did the same but unfortunatley the boys from NSYNC showed up and havent left my room.

When you hook up a MIT cable it is anyones guess how its network will combine with the input impeadence/etc of the receiving component. To get to the question, you are all on the right track, do cut the cable and when you get over the outrage of contents you see inside, you are now ready to throw them away, and get a cable that does not add a white papers worth of complications to an already complex issue.

Najo, new MIT cable have impedance matched cables to work better with tubes etc. I am puzzled why many people look down at MIT, I own some MIT 330 shotgun ICs and find they do some things extremely well, my ears tell me they know what they are doing. I also own ICs by Silver Audio, Harm. Tech, and Analysis Plus.....each have their own strengths and weakness....BTW never pay full price for MIT, buy used or go to Audio Advisor for discontinued models, Sam