HMS TPO MATCH cables

Sunilsood,
the people responding here do not represent a true mirror of my customers. Not every HMS customer will post at A’gon. I think at least 50 to 60 percent of all HMS GF TOP Match customers use a different setting. I hardly have one customer who will buy a pair of cables and you will not hear again from him. So from emails I really feel that at least half of my customers settle on one setting other than default.
I myself use in my system setting 1 on my cdp to preamp cables and setting four from the pre to my monoblocks.
My father in Germany, who also has a full HMS cables system, uses setting 1 on the cd to pre amp also and he is not done experimenting with the cables from the pre to his four KR monoblocks. It looks like he will keep these cables on setting 2.
And according to Mr. Strassner, about 65% of all German customers use a different setting than zero.
It is also a wrong perception to think if you will not use a different setting than the default setting, the investment is wasted.
The price difference is not really huge: it is around $130. The TOP box contains also a sophisticated RFI/EMI filter, which the regular version does not contain. Even MIT have recently come out with an impedance matching system on their top interconnects, although a very crude, since they cannot copy the much more sophisticated settings of HMS, as they are protected by patents.
MIT has 3 extremely spread settings, so you cannot fine tune anything here, but the fact that they implement the impedance idea, even if it is a much more simple design, would support the whole idea about the needs of such a device, which MR. Strassner saw a long time ago

Snook2, the best way to change the settings is to have a friend, your wife or girlfriend change the settings while the music is playing and you relax in your listening chair.
If you have a helper, you can go through all settings without effort in less than 5 minutes.

how are the experiences with settings on speaker cables, are changes in sonics more finite here than interconnects.

I hope I am allowed to mention that there is a Soundstage review at:
http://www.soundstage.com
at the equipment section coming out in 2 days, addressing these TOP Match Box questions in detail.

I absolutely notice a difference in all of the Top Match cables that I have (power, interconnect, speaker) using the different settings. Using the interconnects, you can hear the soundstage change dramatically. Having gone through a few amps since I've had these things, I have gone from one extreme setting (9) to the other (1) depending on the amplifier.

My current amp is a Wyetech Topaz 572 connected to a Silver Rock Signature C37 treated pre-amp. I use the #1 settings. Going to zero collapses the soundstage and causes the background noise to go up. You also lose image focus, and it gets louder. Going to 6 causes the volume to go down too much, and the low level detail is masked over. I haven't found these things to be subtle, but you should tune your system in the early morning hours when you have lower ambient room noise.

Tekunda's advice about about tuning the cables fits with my experince, and it's the first time I've heard it. The volume level does decrease slightly when they are tuned correctly. Regarding the speaker cables, they work pretty much the same way, but don't affect the volume as much as tuning the interconnects. The power cables are really amazing. I have rid my system of a very well respected power conditioner as a result of using the HMS power cables.

As you can tell, I'm really sold on these things. No matter what I put in my system, which changes frequently, my cables will always match whatever components I buy.