Upgrade Speaker Cables or Interconnects

Or you could look at it from the Linn perspective.  Rubbish in, rubbish out.  In other words, if the signal gets degraded upstream, nothing you do downstream will ameliorate it (put back what got eliminated).  Seems like an argument to look first at the link between source and preamp.

@chazzzy007

See: stereo5

+1 stereo5

@perkri

1. P O W E R C O N D I T I ON E R
2. PC’s
3. IC’s
4. Speaker cables

+1 chaZZZy

When I used Transparent Audio cables, their recommended upgrade path was IC from source to pre, then speaker cables, then IC from pre to amp

You forget some things

A listing of mine from 2007:
My main system (Plinius) is totally Merlin. Verdi, Vivaldi interconnects, Scorpion, Tarantula and Black Widow power, with Scorpion speaker cables.
Replaced my Van den Hul which replaced my QED which replaced my Slinkylinks which replaced Kimber PBJ which replaced my USA Stout silver which replaced Dick Smith's finest.