December 21, 2010

  • MIT MI-350 EVO Shotgun, Part 3

    In late 1985, just in time for the holidays, Depeche Mode released a greatest hits album, Catching Up With Depeche Mode.  Instead of waiting to put the killer song, "Shake The Disease," on their next studio album [which turned out to be Black Celebration], Depeche Mode included it on Catching Up With Depeche Mode.  Depeche Mode do get decent airplay, but for whatever reason, radio stations don't or won't play "Shake The Disease."  But that's why you have me.  I bring you artists' superior, but underplayed, songs.

    Originally, the "Shake The Disease" single was only available on 7" vinyl. I do not know when it came out on CD single.  My best guess is that the CD single came out in the late 80s or early 90s.

    I did not get it until winter/spring 1993, from some small shop in downtown Santa Cruz.

    We have two ginkgo trees, so we can't call them singles.  However, one of them has lost its leaves on one half.  The other half still has some leaves.  And that reminds me of the MIT MI-350 EVO Shotgun.  Because it runs both the right and left channels together, you can Cook each channel separately.

    Or, you can daisy chain the MI-350 EVO Shotgun into itself.  Yes, like all MIT cables I've tried, there are no problems with the Cable Cooker.

    Again, my friend says he acquired the MI-350 EVO Shotgun in the late 90s or early 00s.  Thus, he's used it for about a decade.  That's a lot of seasons of losing leaves and re-growing them.  Yet, this interconnect, quite frankly, sounds bad and imposes its personality on everything we tried it with -- until we Cooked it.  The Cooker evens out the frequency response (less bulbous), removes quite a bit of grain, fights against a shortening of the soundstage's depth, and puts some space between the images.  As we've repeatedly said, the Cable Cooker is not only a godsend, it is high-performance audio's MVP.