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Wait until you move your preamp next to your power amps

Hi.

and shorten the ICs to shortest lengths possible, I bet you dollar for dollar you'll find it sounds much much better.

I had done this for my audiophile friend in similar situation whereby
he ran a 20ft IC from his phonostage & linestage seated next to where he sat to his two monoblocks located next to the loudspeakers, some 15ft apart.

He spent big bucks for Goertz twisted flat-ribbon copper ICs, no shield, but so what? The inter-conductor capacitance alone on this long run, even without shielding, is big enough to make the sound dull & lack of life. Once I relocted the phonostage & linestage next to the power amps, & replaced the long long flat ribbon ICs with short 4N silver ICs, life, air & dynamcis came right back.

FYI, not many pre-amps can handle long ICs. So don't expect your premap can as well.

Unless using a transmission line system in btween the premap & power amps in question as I did it for a HiFi concerts in concert halls in the past, long run ICs are not recommended.

c-J


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