Transparent cables made...err...transparent

Ever wondered what kind of magic happens inside those boxes that some Transparent cables have have way along their length?

Well, wonder no more:

http://www.faktiskt.se/modules.php?...topic&t=2953&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

- a bit of shoddily applied wax concealing a cap and a resistor. So that's why those cables cost many thousands of pounds :bub:

Michael.

 

That is some rank looking wax/love juice

 

Thats a bit naughty

 

Fabulous! Michael, you are only jealous because a) someone else though of it.. and b) they sound better than whatever homemade cheesewire you currently favour

And just to make your post correct, the Musicwave retails for about £350 for an 8ft pair, about the same as Kimber 8TC.

 

Custom-designed Components

People wouldn't spend hundreds of $s on cables that use common caps and resisters This was lifted from Transparent's site:

"The components within the MM Technology networks help calibrate the cable's electrical properties to achieve noise-free and distortion-free transfer characteristics. Many network components had to be custom-designed by Transparent to work ideally with the specific stranding and geometry of the associated MM Technology cable. Advances in component technology have not only provided tighter tolerance parts, but many components have become smaller making it easier to achieve a smaller, cleaner circuit layout, a definite advantage in today's multichannel systems where space is at a premium.

 

I think I prefer JC's boxes of vibration absorbing stuff...

 

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That's cheered me up no end. Damned shame I don't read Swedish though.

-- Ian

 

I don't care whats in my MusicWave ultra boxes, but they made a profound
differance for the better regardless what other boxes I use.

 

Id just like to say for the record that Ive bought four of these transparent cables at 350 pounds each.

At a grand total of one thousand four hundred pounds, I feel I paid the correct sum for the high level of engineering and component quality that went into my purchase.

Please dont knock this product, unless you think you could put together a capacitor, resistor, some glue and a piece of wire for less (and a plastic box).

Chris

 

Chris,

Class

 

Tell you what Chris, send me £200, and I'll do it with silver-plated copper in teflon insulation.

 

That would be Dynaudio OCOS speaker cables and VDH D102MkIII balanced ICs

I didn't bother to look it up but I bet their top of the range ones (which I believe cost over £10K for an IC ) have the same bit of classy engineering in them

Michael.

 

Oh no. With the top of the range ones they put the components on a bit of veroboard...

 

Its all well and good taking the piss, but all wire is wire, anyone charging this type of money should be ashamed.

 

:d :d

 

Hey guys, if you're going to get ripped off on cables, at least get ripped off by someone you know and, preferably, a forum member. :just kidding:

 

Ah OK - Northern European made cheesewire then. Still doesn't really matter - actually the Ocos is excellent IMO. FWIW, I do tend to agree to a point with high priced speaker cables - most stuff over say £40 per metre is simply not value for money to me

 

Michael, just dug out an interview with Karen Sumner (Preident of Transparent) from October 2002 and it makes interesting reading.

When asked about the contents of the network boxes her answer is " What's in there is no mystery. Just passive parts - resistors, inductors and capacitors"

So I guess the question would be what's your point?

 

Come on merlin, just take a look at the drivel on their web site about what's in those boxes. They talk about "Transparent Network Technology" as if it was some proprietary system and make every effort to lead you to believe there's a lot more than a Zobel network in there. One comment in one interview that most potential buyers won't have read doesn't change anything.

Compare that to the matter of fact way that Townshend explain wha't in the tubes on their cables:

Michael.