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Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp?

If you have a World class preamp, is there a need to go nuts buying some really nice cables before the Signal reaches the preamp?.  Let the preamp do its thing and then provide Royal treatment for Signal‘s Journey to the amplifier.

If you had to choose between before or after a preamp what would you do?

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frogman
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“upstream” should read “downstream” 🤔

 

frogman
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noromance +3.

Basic rule of system building that will will give you better results than most other approaches; many which simply keep us chasing our sonic tails.

Every component, including cabling will degrade the signal to some degree. NO component can “improve” the signal and the best we can hope for is that the component will degrade the signal as little as possible, Of course, how much any one component degrades the signal is not an absolute; electrical compatibility with the component that preceded as well that which followed will also be a factor. In short:

Any information lost on the way from A to B cannot be recovered by C (upstream).

This approach has worked for me, Good luck.

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