This way the interconnects are much more forgiving but still benefiting from a midrange with less veiling but less sibilant and a greater bass. So I'm keeping the regular Musiclink connected to the cd player and the Plus with the amplifier. After careful analyzing I realized I have a bright front end and the Plus is very well revealing that. Then I switched the Plus to the cd player and the regular Musiclink towards the amp, now the sibilants are back. I sat down to give a careful listen and I observed a much more "live" ambiance with my system. These changes are so obvious you don't have to think twice about the it. Also the sibilants, which I hated so much, was greatly reduced. Connecting my cd player with the Musiclink and my amp with the Plus, without breakin the sound was awesome. Three days ago I brought home a Musiclink and a Musiclink Plus. The Plus is not a bad cable by any means - it''''''''s a bad cable for the price. The MIT is significantly less money and performed much better. I have three sets, so this is an expensive lesson learned. ![]() Overall I feel that the cable is inadequate, especially for the price. Initially I felt that the Plus was still more focused, but a test CD revealed that the cable merely choked the soundstage. MIT provided more detail, especially in background sounds, created a more airy and open soundstage and eliminated the Plus'''''''' dull highs. However, to my surprise I discovered that on my particular system the MIT Terminator 3 performed significantly better than the expensive Plus. Further, I felt that it would be proper use with Klipsch Horns to tame some of the brightness. During testing the Plus was more detailed than Kimber''''''''s PBJ and Wireworld''''''''s Atlantic, presenting what I thought was good detail and soundstage. I initially purchased the Plus as a supplement for less critical sources, and ended up using it as a primary interconnect. System used: Rega Planet 2000/Naim CD5i players, Rega Brio Integrated, Polk Audio Lsi-15's, and Rega Quattro speaker cable. It was clean, detailed, neutral, fast, rendered musical weight fantastically, and the bass was spot on. The Transparent simply outclassed the Rega and Nordost. Instrument weight and bass were much improved upon the Rega and Nordost. It really only took a song or two to hear the superiority of the Transparent cable. I also compared them directly to my older reference cable, the Nordost Solar Wind. My dealer let me try these at home for a while in direct comparison to Rega's Couple interconnect. The cable is white though and the passive network at the preamp/integrated amp end is a rectangle (not the newer sleeker look).īecause Transparent was restocking their cable inventory I was able to buy these cables for half of their normal $350 price tag. ![]() In any event, this review is for the older MusicLink Plus. ![]() Well, maybe not so much of an overhaul as just a facelift. Transparent has just overhauled their entire interconnect line.
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