If you’re pleased with the AQ Evergreens for your CD player, keep those and focus on investing in higher end interconnectds for your preamp to amp connections. Synergistic Research is an excellent brand as stated by millercarbon and I agree don’t chintz on this critical signal path. How far apart are the preamp and amp from each other? How long do you need them to be? I’m using AQ MacKenzie RCA interconnects and they are outstanding. If you can't swing the cost for these, consider the Red River series just below the MacKenzie offering. .
Budget Cables for Component Connection/Interconnects
I currently have Audioquest Evergreen RCA cables connecting from my CD player to preamp - I quite like them and would like to stay within their pricerange...but when going from my preamp to amp, I've just been using 'standard' nothing special cables, as the distance between the L and R inputs on my amp is too far apart for the Audioquest cables! Frustrating!
How to Blue Jeans Cables (LC-1) compare? What about Mogami? Ideally, I'd be getting a few pairs of these for consistency and replacing the Evergreens. One for pre to power [which will later become DAC to integrated once I buy a DAC and upgrade to a tube integrated...but that's another story], one for CD to pre, and one for phono to pre!
How to Blue Jeans Cables (LC-1) compare? What about Mogami? Ideally, I'd be getting a few pairs of these for consistency and replacing the Evergreens. One for pre to power [which will later become DAC to integrated once I buy a DAC and upgrade to a tube integrated...but that's another story], one for CD to pre, and one for phono to pre!