I'm not at all an experienced honer, but I will say that I think this information has explained some things about problems I've had with honing. In my recent honing, I've been treating my King 4k and my Naniwa 8K like the Norton 4K/8K combo that is recommended around here--in pyramids and the like. I was getting good edges, but not great, and under magnification they looked very rough, like the 1k scratches were still present, even after a couple of rounds of aggressive pyramids.

HOWEVER, after reading this thread and reexamining my hones, I started doing pyramids with my 2K super stone and 4K King, then polishing on the 8K, and I am getting MUCH better edges, and they are glassy smooth under magnification. Of course, my use of pressure and the like is probably getting better just from more practice, but I can't help but think that the 2K/4K is a much better combination for smoothing out the low level scratches from my 1K diamond plate (which is actually not that great, and tears razors up something awful, but is really really fast for honing out chips and the like).

This would also tie in to my experience with the Japanese "Lapika" brand lapping film I picked up--clearly marked 2K=9 micron, 4K=3 micron, 8K=.5 and 10K =.3.