Cable Asylum: Re: True test of HMS by Tekunda Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys.

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Posted by Tekunda (D ) on March 14, 2002 at 10:52:30

In Reply to: True test of HMS posted by Corbett on March 14, 2002 at 08:55:33:

I will ask Mr. Strassner to take a look into improving the looks if possible, although you are the first person to utter such comments.
Are you refering to the speaker cables, to the interconnects or both, since these two cables look completely different? Or is more the wooden boxes, which you think look ugly?
Actually I had some feedback of people who commented how good especially the speaker cables look and how good the workmanship of these highly polished wooden boxes is.
Well, taste is subjective and it is your good right as a customer, not to like the looks of any product. But sometimes performance is more important than good looks.
Since I am not allowed to make a direct comparison between my cables and the competition's, I will try to answer your question only to a certain degree.
I have owned the SPM cables, I had Valhalla cables in my system and the fact that I got rid of both and the very positive review Calloway gave the HMS cables in a direct comparison should actually answer your question already.
If any product does well in competing against the top line of its direct competition, shouldn't it do a even much better job competing agains its competition's mid level product, don't you think so?
But the proof is always in the pudding, here in the listening.
I cannot encourage people enough, to try a few different brands when buying cables. I am the last person not to admit that cables, to a certain degree at least, are system dependant, although the chances are rather high, that if cables do really well in a very revealing system, they will also do a decent job in another man's system and are definitaly worth being checked out. But that apllies to all brands of cables.
Most of the time it will be a a price-preformance issue, (sometimes though is plain prestige) which will decide what product a customer will buy. And the more competition there is for a product, the better The prices will start to fall for the customer. The best example is Micrososft and Intel and AMD.
Don't you think that if MS really had some serious competition, it could still charge the prices it is charging?
But look at Intel and AMD. As soon as Intel had some serious competition in AMD chips, the prices came down.
So introducing new products and be it new cables, does only serve the audiophile community in general and not vice versa.

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