Ben's Silver ICs and the Sony BD S300

I haven't been satisfied with the performance of my rig playing back Dolby True HD or DTS MA via analog. Specifically, the center channel...voices are too bassy, the front soundstage ill defined and the LFE lacking definition.
I've been using AQ Dbacks and Corals on my fronts and a hodge podge of Monster and Ratshack ICs in the other positions. I thought I'd try a pair of Ben's ICs to see if I could fix the problem.

I received them yesterday and while it's too soon to give them a thorough review I did want to give my first impressions while they're fresh. I decided to put them on my fronts between my source and the pre, per Ben's suggestion, to get them more voltage for burn-in. I put on some Alan Parsons "Eye in the Sky" and listened for a half hour with the Dbacks in position, then I put in Ben's. The difference was immediately apparent. The first thing I noticed was that the tweets came alive (maybe too much at first). One of my gripes with the RDO-194s was them seem a tad boring in comparison to the SL2000. The smoothness came at the expense of some zing. With Ben's cables the zing is back. The highs have always been quite airy and transparent. Now they are more so. I also heard slight sibilance in vocals. The midrange collapsed a bit and the center vocal image sounds markedly louder. Bass seemed to lose some slight definition and punch. The soundstage re-arranged itself, imaging seems deeper, not quite as wide, less wrap around with the SDA effect. After about an hour of playing familiar CDs and DVD As, the sibilance disappeared. Key points of detail are placed differently in the soundstage, I've gained height and depth, lost some width (with SDAs, that's a non-issue). After 6 hours the bass came back tighter and more defined ( I noticed this last night). I reported all this to Ben. He told me initially, the ICs will sound congested and the bass will improve. I believe him. These cables are getting better far more quickly than I expected. I did all this comparison with source being my Oppo 980 universal. A player I've been satisfied with as a bang for the buck, all in one music/DVD platform.

That get's me back to the Sony. It's a fine BD player(video), but sucks musicaly in comparison (thus I kept the Oppo). My HK won't pass HDMI audio, so I need to use the analog connections to get the lossless BD codecs. It's converted to PCM. I put the Silver ICs on the fronts, the Dbacks on the center (source to pre, pre to amp) and left the surrounds on the Monster ICs. I put in a couple of BDs, Flight of the Phoenix (DTS MA) and Spiderman 3 (DD lossless PCM). My center image did improve, voices are less bassy, but the front soundstage still sounds ill defined and the LFE is miles behind the digital (compressed) DD or DTS tracks. I'm at a loss. I guess I'll just have to breakdown and get a pre that supports these codecs through HDMI because IMO, PCM via analog is a mess. It's not awful, but it ain't better and I'm slightly pissed about it.

Anybody else dissatisfied? Any suggestions?

So I've gained and learned something. Ben's ICs are the real deal. The AQs are good and I felt they added a level of detail to my system. Ben's added some zing to that and they are getting better as we speak. I may keep the AQs, but for sure I'm replacing the rest with Ben's.