Need advice replacing my preamp

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When Paul McGowan started selling reasonably priced true balanced preamps I made the switch. True balanced preamps I have owned includes several PS Audio preamps, Lector Audio (special ordered), Parasound (although the pres are 100% true balanced their balanced IOs are), Audio Alchemy DDP-1. Virtually all amps were monoblocks, with the exception of my EVS 1200 which is dual mono 2 AS1200 IcePower modules, but one power cord, although there are 2 PC IECs installed

What about the Benckmark preamp? 

I was running 12 Meters of  Mogami XLR Cables from Atma-Sphere MP-1 to the mono-blocks. could not tell that between the Purist audio XLR Neptune which cost thousand of dollars.

However the above system was from Atma-Preamps to Atma-Poweramps.

When i tested Atma-Pre-amp to a SET amplifier Cables made a diffrent. So i dont know how this works on the AES ralph talks about but it seems other manufacture XLR balanced connection don't really seem fully balanced????

OK so I changed out the cables, no difference. I found a lighting dimmer that adds some buzz but still need to get rid of more noise.

Nice preamp.  Wireworld has nice shielded cables and of course they mix and match RCA/XLR to fit your situation.  Without  purchasing, you could explore with The Cable Co. for a rental fee.  I run the Wireworld Silver Eclipse 8 with RCA at the preamp side and XLR at the powered speaker side.

One should also consider a quality power conditioner.  Cheers