Best place to insert a new higher end cable in my system?


Hello. I picked up a good deal in a Audioquest Water 1.5m cable. It’s the most expensive one in my system. I have mostly other AQ cables such as Mackenzie, Sydney, a Columbia and an old school AQ cable going from my amp to preamp that sounds pretty good. Components include amp, preamp, phono preamp, server, streamer and universal player. I have a Cardas Blue Heaven phono connect going to my phono preamp but on occasion use a step up transformer former and use an old school Musical Concepts super connect II .5 meter from the SUT to the phono preamp. Where will I get the best performance from this Water IC? Thanks for your consideration and feedback.

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Congratulations on getting a great IC!
Preamp to amp would be where I’d put it.

Let us know your results.

JD

+1 on preamp to amp. You don’t want the lower level interconnects to be the bottleneck. But experiment and see what you like best. 

 I have to agree with @decooney ​​.

Whatever you do let it settle, It takes time. Best scenario would be having the same between source-preamp-power.

 

@decooney seems correct. If the source is diminished by that first connection, what good is the rest?