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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. 

 

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soix
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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. 

soix
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It would seem if the better cable was upstream, and the lesser cable downstream, it would seem the lesser cable would negate the better one. 

That was not my experience.  I found that if I put the lesser cable upstream it choked off the better cable more downstream than if I did it the other way around.  But, the great thing is you get to try it both ways and hear for yourself, which is all that matters. 

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