Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Decent cables overall, but I ended up trading them in for Transparent OPUS MM. Transparent OPUS MM's cost about $24K for 8', so while people from Norway cannot afford them, they are definately superior cables to the Oracle V1's.

Strengths:
Price

Weaknesses:
There are better cables out there.

Similar Products Used:
Transparent OPUS MM

Price Paid:  $15000.00

Summary:
I won''t lie. These speakers sound great. Need to match them with quality equipment for them to perform at their full capacity. That being said, I do not feel that they are worth the money in the least. I have tried various speaker wiring over the past few years. You can get the same quality with other cables without spending over 1,000.00. Why overspend when you won''t notice that much of a difference? I certainly won''t. I returned mine for store credit and have upgraded my speakers.

Strengths:
Very durable, thick cables

Weaknesses:
Price, price, price! NOt worth the extra dough.

Similar Products Used:
MIT, Better Cables

Price Paid:  $14000.00 from Mono

Summary:
This cable is simply the best I have encountered. Most americans can''t afford this type of equipment and therefore won''t approve of its price, but the fact remains that this is the best speaker cable out there. Transparent XL gets a 2 place, but its not even close to the Oracle V1. I understand that a lot of people think that it is plain madness to buy a cable tyhat cost more than a car, but the Oracle V1 brings out details that you didn''t know existed, and how they do it I don''t know - but it works, it really works.

Strengths:
detail, bass, mids, treble - in short everything

Weaknesses:
high price

Similar Products Used:
Transparent Xl, Valhall, Cardas Gold, Kimber reference

Summary:
Yes this cable cost Mega $$$, but if you have that kind of money...what does it matter? I have Adcom stereo equipment using MIT T-2 BiWire speaker cable ($500) and
several MI-330 interconnects ($190 each) with B&W DM-604 speakers ($1000/pair). The cables that I bought make my system sound it's best. To the guy that says buy Radio Shack cables, he doesn't know a thing. When I put together my stereo system, I was using Monster Cable speaker cable at $120. These MIT T-2 BiWire kills the Monster cables that I was using the first week.

If I were to have Genesis speakers ($125,000) then I would want cables to give it the cleanest and best signal.
I have a friend that works at a High-End A/V store that has multi-thousand-dollar speaker, cable, etc. Put in a CD there and it makes anything else sound like a $50 Philips player.

So to everyone complaining about the price: Why do YOU care?? If it's too much for you, then get something else! The great thing about MIT is that they have cables for every class of system and budget.

Summary:
First of all, the price of this product is outrageous, and very few people indeed will be able to purchase the cable, or even have the set-up and experience to evaluate this cable properly. This is a reference product, designed to learn, and to use new technologies which will become available in cheaper cables. In this respect, this cavle is a benchmark product, a tour-de-force in cavle design, and an effort for which MIT is to be applauded.
You can't "review" this cable in a couple minutes. It takes a week for the cable to settle in the system it is used in. The system should be of undisputed quality, as the cable will ruthlessly reveal what faults the electronics may have.
When surrounded by the best components, this cable will disappear, allowing the music to flow freely through the system. The key issue here is noise. The cable has an unusually low noise floor, allowing even the smallest signal to find its way to the speaker.
It is hard to describe the sound of a cable, becsuse it is so dependent on the surrounding equipment. I guess this cable possesses all the signature MIT elements, like the way spatial information is rendered, and they way microdynamics are handled. The most important characteristic in my opinion is that, together with the right electronics, this cable is capable of pulling you into the music, giving you the most "you are there" experience I ever had when listening to a music reproduction system.
So is this the ultimate cable? The best cable money can buy? For me, in my set-up, I think so. The price may be stiff, but the performance is there to match it.

Weaknesses:
Price, Size

Similar Products Used:
Siltech, Nordost, MIT, NBS