Aloha Simon,
I don't have the HMS speaker cables, but I have all HMS Gran Finale IC's.
I concur with Mike's instructions. After listening through all of the different settings, I too found neutral as the best. There was a dramatic thinning of the sound at some settings, depending on where the IC was located in my chain.
I did not ever find any setting that was an improvement over neutral. YMMV
And BTW, I love these cables. I use the HMS digital cable as well.
There is something about these cables that is hard to describe. Easy to hear, just hard to describe. I and others have used the term "organic", but I am not sure that really translates into anything meaningful until you hear it.
Warren
I don't have the HMS speaker cables, but I have all HMS Gran Finale IC's.
I concur with Mike's instructions. After listening through all of the different settings, I too found neutral as the best. There was a dramatic thinning of the sound at some settings, depending on where the IC was located in my chain.
I did not ever find any setting that was an improvement over neutral. YMMV
And BTW, I love these cables. I use the HMS digital cable as well.
There is something about these cables that is hard to describe. Easy to hear, just hard to describe. I and others have used the term "organic", but I am not sure that really translates into anything meaningful until you hear it.
Warren