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Preamp no longer makes a difference after caps and wire

I just wanted to check if anyone else had this experience. My tube preamp use to be pretty important at removing the harshness from my dac. Since I’ve upgraded the wired in my whole system and caps on my speaker they gave the system a tube like quality. I’ve been skipping the tube in the preamp and the difference in sound is almost minimal. I think I would have a hard time a/b the difference. 
thewatcher101
thewatcher101 OP
39 posts
 
I can turn the preamp off, and it just bypasses it. 

Even when I turn it on the difference are extremely minor to warrant keeping it in the system generating heat. 
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atmasphere
11,556 posts
 
What is meant by 'I’ve upgraded the wired in my whole system'?
Did you replace all the wire in your power amplifier, DAC and speakers??
Or just the interconnect cables?
thewatcher101 OP
39 posts
 
replaced all IC, and speaker cables. 
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kalali
1,977 posts
 
Still don’t quite follow...how do you “bypass” the preamp? Do you have some sort of switch ahead of your amplifier and you switch between the preamp and direct DAC connection and use the DAC volume control?
reubent
6,935 posts
 
@thewatcher101 - Please list the pre-amp you are using.  
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