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MIT music interface technologies (Snake Oil)?

Frank Dernie said:
When I did my speaker cable comparison the Goldmund and MIT cables in the compare both had filter boxes in line and both sounded different to the other cables in the test.
I was not surprised since they have components in them.
I was using a Spectral DMA 180 amp in the comparison, maybe the filter improved its stability too?
Anyway my current speaker cables cost £32 on ebay, so you can deduce the result of my listening comparisons.
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I do believe MIT cables were originally designed specifically for Spectral gear with its wide bandwidth. Then later marketed as good for everything.
 
Wes said:
IIRC, the IP on trademarks is limited to an area of "product."

IF so, then one could easily create MIT cereal, etc.
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That is generally true, but remember the guy that tried to trademark "pi" a few years ago (very silly). Often a companies trademark includes a unique logo that makes associations more clear.
 
Wes said:
then one could easily create MIT cereal
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FYI, MIT (the one in Massachusetts) works on many different things. Including cereal improvements, believe me. So, this “MIT cereal“ wold not fly. :)

And electronics cables’ technology improvement is definitely within MIT’s field, so undoubtedly a name infringement. These cable guys are lucky to operate under their radar, but for how long...?
 
Wes said:
IIRC, the IP on trademarks is limited to an area of "product."

IF so, then one could easily create MIT cereal, etc.
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Yes, trademarks are generally specific to a few types of product. Still, good luck making Coca Cola cables without getting sued.
 
I am going to make Choca-Bola cables. They will be extremely thin and designed to choke out the bad noises from digital. They will start at $33,000 per foot.
 
Wes said:
I am going to make Choca-Bola cables. They will be extremely thin and designed to choke out the bad noises from digital. They will start at $33,000 per foot.
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Mary be too similar to Count Chocolot cereal.
 
scott wurcer said:
I don't think they ever trademarked MIT so Musical Interface Technologies can go on as the farce that they are.
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MIT has a trademark and they even forbid to use it if someone takes an online course (under the label MITx on edx.org) organized and run by MIT. You should even withstand the urge to use their logo on linkedin if you add the course to your profile.

How do I know it? edx.org, by taking courses run by MIT and being informed in the course about this topic. MIT means cash and they don't want to hand out the brand to anyone else beside the ones who paid the price to be on campus.
 
Gekel said:
How do I know it? edx.org, by taking courses run by MIT and being informed in the course about this topic. MIT means cash and they don't want to hand out the brand to anyone else beside the ones who paid the price to be on campus.
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The point was made MIT does not make audio cables and no use of their logos has happened. The tuition in 1968 was $1750 BTW.
 
Gekel said:
MIT has a trademark and they even forbid to use it if someone takes an online course (under the label MITx on edx.org) organized and run by MIT. You should even withstand the urge to use their logo on linkedin if you add the course to your profile.
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They don't want people to claim (or give the impression that) they attended MIT.
 
Which is what I said. A brand is worth money, and the MIT brand in education is worth a lot.
 
Gekel said:
Which is what I said. A brand is worth money, and the MIT brand in education is worth a lot.
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If a degree from MIT is only an indication of the holder's ability to pay the (admittedly very high) tuition fees, then its worth will be a lot less.
 
I just cringed through the 20 page "infobook" (or better, lack-of-info-book) for the ACC product. It really ends on a high note:

Enabling the 2C3D switch allows more power to be delivered to the Multipole circuitry to produce or “throw” more energy into the room, furthering the “suspension of dis-belief”. That is, the listener is more likely to believe that a live performance is within the same air space.
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While the sheer level of dissolution from reality is mind boggling here, I have to admit that technically, the listener that spent the 100k on this billet milling exercise, is indeed more likely to believe that a live performance is within the same airspace, even if that airspace is between thier ears and not infront.
 
Hi, was going to post a request to measure MIT cables and found this thread. I was also a non believer of MIT cables until I tried them in my system, and despite their high cost, I eventually upgraded all my cables to MIT. Has there been any measurements done on ASR on them? Would love to see how they change the signals passing through them since I do hear a difference. Thank you!
 
Blumlein 88 said:
I do believe MIT cables were originally designed specifically for Spectral gear with its wide bandwidth. Then later marketed as good for everything.
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I think that if you use anything other than MIT with Spectral gear, it voids your warranty. Supposedly, the network within the cable prevents high frequency oscillation. Same principle employed by Matthew Polk when he made his audio cables.

But, c'mon. I did hear the Avalon Eidolon-Mit-Spectral combination, and it did sound spectacular, but I attribute that more to the qualities of the Avalon than anything else. Like everyone else here, I have multiple issues with MIT. Everything from price, to the network which is unnecessary and/or a sonic detriment in all but the use case I mentioned above, to the fact that the network is just few bucks at most in parts cost, to the appropriation of the name of a distinguished University to lend an air of expertise to their design, etc. So yeah a rip off. And a collaborative ripoff with Spectral as their accomplice.
 
Hammer said:
Hi, was going to post a request to measure MIT cables and found this thread. I was also a non believer of MIT cables until I tried them in my system, and despite their high cost, I eventually upgraded all my cables to MIT. Has there been any measurements done on ASR on them? Would love to see how they change the signals passing through them since I do hear a difference. Thank you!
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Send one to @amirm and he can measure it for you then let us all know the results.
 
Hammer said:
Would love to see how they change the signals passing through them since I do hear a difference. Thank you!
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How have you validated that the difference was real? What were the controls and how did you implement them?
 
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