Anyone ever opened MIT cables?

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

My MIT cables work better than all other cables I have tried or owned, in most instances through my system. And, I have owned and or tried, most of the cables out there. I don't understand why people are so hostile about these cables. What makes you think the parts are any cheaper inside the little box, than the parts that make up all other cables (or the parts that make up the series components inside the crossovers of your speakers)? I would like to see which MIT cables all of you above have tried (besides Megasam)...that is, IF you have tried them at all. Also, how many of you have listening rooms which are correctly treated with acoustic absorbtion/diffusion...and which of you are just listening in an echo chamber.