I've owned or played with cues from quite a few of the best... and IMO the five standouts, as far as HIT goes, are: (in no particular order)
Cognoscenti
Scruggs
Hercek
Tucker
Ned Morris
I will add that I did have an ebony/bem fancy Josey s/p and oddly enough, an bem/ebony 8 point Skip Weston that were close, but not quite as good as my Tucker. Definitely a 'holy grail' cue for me!