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I have only one pair of good interconnects (all others are Radio Shack specials). Is it better to use them between CD player and pre or between pre and amp? Also, my "good" interconnects are actually Apogee Wyde Eye's, which are supposed to be digital cables, but I'm using them for analog. This should work okay, yes? Finally, recommendations of good used interconnects for around $25/per ($50/per at most) would be great.

Joseph Audio RM22si speakers
Denon AVR1700 receiver (pre, hopefully upgrade soon)
Kimber 8TC biwire
McIntosh MC-2105 (just bought brand used, on its way!)

Thanks.
matt8268

Showing 1 response by sugarbrie

"All things being equal", if you use more than a CD player, putting your best cable between the preamp and power amp will improve the performance of every component plugged into the preamp. CD players tend to picky on cable choice from my experience, so if you are going to demo some cables, try many with your CD player.

For inexpensive cables, you can't do much better than the MAS cables made by Stu Wein of Audioparts (his screen name on Audiogon and eBay). Stu can be contacted through Audiogon and has many cables listed currently. He will custom make cables anyway you want. He has various grades/quality of cables... See this link....

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/search2.pl?seller&zzAudioparts