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Best cable placement

Looking for the best placement of my IC cable. I have a Transparent Audio Ultra MM IC cable and a Transparent Audio Ultra MM2 IC cable.  I am connecting Mark Levinson No 30.6 Processor to my Mark Levinson No 32 Pre  Amp.  I also want to connect from my Pre Amp to my Mark Levinson No 336 Amp.  Where should I put my MM2 cable (the better cable) from the source to the Pre Amp or from the Pre Amp to the Amp? 

My speakers are 801D4 and speaker cables are Transparent Audio Ultra Gen5 bi-wire. 

 

oldschoolml
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ellajeanelle
386 posts
 

To me it would make sense to put the better of the two cables between your preamp and power amp, this way any source connected to the preamp would benefit from the better cable instead of just one component.

jl35
3,980 posts
 

Transparent used to recommend (have not checked in a few years), cable importance/upgrade order is IC from Source to Pre first, then Speaker Cables, then IC from Pre to Amp...

soix
9,456 posts
 

I’ve tried this both ways and found putting the better or more revealing cable closest to the source was much better.  Of course it’s easy for you to just try for yourself and see what you think. 

overthemoon
417 posts
 

When I was upgrading I upgraded ICs source to pre then pre to amp.  Did the same with power cables by the way.

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