Transparent Cable in TAS?
Kenneth_P -- Sun, 08/17/2008 - 14:50
Dear editors at TAS,
I just subscribed to TAS, and I am - so far - really pleased with it, and will continue as long as the magazine is alive.
I'm standing in front of a new cable purchase, and I am fallen in love with the Transparent MusicWave (I already have the MusicLink). So I went in to your - otherwise good website - to find some reviews of Transparent cables in TAS. But it appears, that it does not exist. Can it be true? :shock:
Have you never reviewed a Transparent cable? And if not, why? :?:
We've been remiss in not reviewing Transparent cable. I heard at the most recent CES a comparison of several levels of their cables with the replacements using MM2 technology, and was quite surprised at how much better the MM2 sounded. Transparent seems to have taken a big leap forward from what was already a highly regarded cable line.
We'll take a listen to some Transparent in an upcoming issue.
I am looking forward to that review. :D
Best regards, Kenneth P., Copenhagen, Denmark.
I have the Opus MM series through out my system...Ref8 cd ,Ref3,ref610,ph7 and proac response 4 speakers...I was a happy bunny with the cables but in all honesty my world has changed when i upgraded the Opus MMs to MM2 technology...the back ground became pitch black...proac response 4s( towering heights) became monitors challenging Minis..in short MM2 technology is great..I had the chance to compare it to nordost odin and no competition from odin at all...the greatest cable in my view.
Martin Colloms has reviewed the Transparent Ref XL with MM2 in the latest edition of The Audio Critic - he loved it.
I'm using one (5 meters long!) between my ARC Ref3 and 610Ts to very good effect too.
EDIT: Ooops! It's the Hifi Critic, not the Audio Critic
I second the MM2 "Ayes!" resoundingly.
The grain in the MM1 lower line is gone. I had super MM1, now have Ultra MM2. OY! Pretty large leap forward, Quieter background, which means the "empty" space in the soundfield has more room for harmonics to develop and breathe. Also means the low-level details develop in a fluid, not stiled, way as they develop. More wafting through space instead of seeming to take a step, then another, then another. In other words, continuous motion, not herky-jerky connect-the-dots type movement.
It's funny how expecting nothing can allow you to hear improvements better.
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