This review page is supported in part by the sponsors whose ad banners are displayed below Before we make tracks into my digs to leash up the expectant speakers with new cables, a few basic specs. The LGS speaker cable from German Highend wants €2’275/pr for a 3-meter pair fitted with pure-silver bananas. The insulation is polyethylenterephthalat or PET, the same stuff many recyclable plastic bottles are made of. The outer sleeve is polyamid with an anti-static treatment. Inside are four long-crystal solid-core silver conductors of 1mm² diameter each. Good connection? As I said, my change to the Spendor SP100R² had me just a bit curious about speaker cables again. Let me then briefly introduce to you the cables which I compared the German HighEnd LGS to: HMS Fortissimo (€1’69/3m/pr): This is a tonally very balanced cable with good transparency, timing and dynamics but also a minor penchant for relaxed flow which, as I wrote in its review at the time, might connect to a treble which is more calm than energetic or sparkly. The HMS dovetailed very nicely with my departed Thiel CS3.7. Real Cable BW OFC 400 (biwire, €289/3m/pr via Quadral): Somewhat of a budget king, this cable is neutral, stress-free and entirely without any treble hiss or harshness. Compared to costlier cables, resolution and differentiation are a bit lower. As is true for all cables, pay attention to quality i.e. properly soldered terminations. WSS Platin Line LS4 (€995/3m/pr): This is a very robust, dynamic and transparent cable with transients, differentiation and body superior to the HMS but which in the uppermost treble is a tick less silky. The WSS meshes wonderfully with my Spendor SP100R² and serves up an extra dose of turn-on factor and involvement. During my first A/B, one strength of the review loaners registered quickly – how they depicted the upper registers. That the treble would be more brilliant and illuminated than the calmer softer HMS Fortissimo was expected. But even when compared to the WSS, I detected a bit more accuracy. The German Highend leashes depicted HF events more finely teased out and less mechanical. The stronger contrast of the WSS booked slightly more involving substance and perhaps a tick more body. Regardless, with noise makers like cymbals, hi-hats and rattles—say on Kasabian’s 2009 album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, a highly recommended wickedly packed mix of Kraut Rock and Brit Pop with a flourish of 60’s psychedelia—the LGS was silkier than the WSS, more brilliant and sparkling than the HMS and more finely resolved than either. It was no surprise that the LGS dominated the Real Cable particularly on resolution. On dense effects-laden cuts like OHGR’s "Three" from their Devils in my Details album, this can become decisive for listening pleasure. Over the BW OFC 400 as well as the Fortissimo, this opulent sound mélange was less grippy, individual detail flatter. This made the cut more ordinary and robbed it a bit of its signature character.