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Interconnects priority

Greetings!

I am mulling over my interconnects and one question I have is, which interconnect is the most  important, if any, in the chain.

My setup is a Rega P8 with a Hana SL LOMC cart, into a Moon 310 LP / 320S phono stage, onto a PrimaLuna EVO 400 preamp and finally into a McIntosh MC312 power amp.

I am contemplating which interconnect (using XLR in my case) is the most critical to the sound/signal path, the one from the phono stage to the preamp or from the preamp to the power amp?

Or, looking it from another practical budget perspective, if I have a total of of $1,000 to spend is it clear that I should spend $500 on each XLR pair, or should I “overweight” my spend on one set because it’s the more “important” interconnect from a sound quality perspective.

(Of course assuming the interconnects are of equal length so that’s not a factor.)

Would love to hear this knowledgeable group’s thoughts on this - thanks!

bimmerlover

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@sls883

Cool. I like DHLabs a great deal. Tell us what it sounds like once it is broken in. Allow well over 100 hours.

 

I used to keep my old cables to allow me to experiment on the next upgrade cycle.

 

Early on I bought some really good high end cables that were too good for my system. This became clear when I upgraded and the old cables (much more transparent) sounded way better than the ones I transferred from my old components that were warm and not at all detailed. You can learn a lot by having old cables around as long as they are high quality.

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