Hello Digital community! I just bought a refurbished fully updated NDAC and I’m running a Oppo BDP105D as the transport. I’m seeking advice on a RCA > BNC
Coaxial cable. I’m currently using a bright green Canare. I’m looking for quality, and perhaps a little warmer presentation. You input is highly appreciated.
Ciao
Chord Shawline. I’ve just ordered one myself (running from an Oppo 205 to the BNC input of a Chord Qutest.
Hsllo TheKevster - I hear the Chord brand name a lot on the forum. I’ll look into it. My local dealer offered me a $120. Transparent 75ohm yesterday. Said it had warm presentation. It doesn’t have any “polls” or boxes like their other cables. Just a strait 75 ohm cable.
Thanks again, I’ll investigate the Chord.
I use a toslink optical cable between a Squeezebaox touch and an Ndac. I prefer the optical to co-axial and it’s more natural/warmer.
I bought it at a car boot sale for a fiver. It was made in China, but the packaging did say it was made from glass fibres and was high quality. 
You can also try Blue Jeans Cable for an inexpensive option. I use one from them with my Oppo 105D in transport mode to a nDAC.
Hi Gracie – The Chord Company makes cables, while Chord Electronics, a completely different company, makes electronics, including very well-regarded DACs. Don’t get 'em mixed up!
Transparent cables , are not. The best inexpensive s/pdif cable is probably Audioquest or Chord cables.
opus - interesting. I’ve used Audioquest on many levels. Speaker cables and interconnects. In fact I have a vintage pair of Audioquest Cheetah Interconnects. They were the first 100% silver XLR with 12V/DBS. Still a great cable. Solid bass! What level of Audioquest and Chord s/pdif are you referring too?
G.1
Don’t know. I use Audience AU24-SX. I think Audioquest Diamond is their least expensive all silver digital cable. Chord not sure of. Black Cat cables are very good they have a cable silver star 75 that’s excellent about $350.
I believe I’m going to order a Synergistic Research Atmosphere X Alive Level 1 RCA> BNC.
Good choice
Thanks! I’ll let you know how it works out.
G.1
Most BNC cables come with a little RCA adapter.
If you want something reassuringly expensive I suppose Naim’s DC1 cable deserves a mention (given that you’re using a Naim DAC and asking on the Naim forum!) It’s about £300 in the UK.
Or Mark Grant Hdx1 , around 60 GBP
TOBYJUG - Thanks, I have several.
So many cables, so little time…
When I auditioned a Rega DAC on my Naim Core I borrowed a Shawline, the result was rather underwhelming but as it was only a temporary arrangement until the NDs were updated I bought the DAC anyway as a Chord 2qute failed to satisfy and any going higher was more than I wanted to spend, I also have a spare Rega based system. Rather than the Shawline, however I followed a Thread on the old forum to a Belden 4974R from Bluejeans cables, with an RCA adaptor on one end it woke the Rega DAC up nicely and for a fraction of the cost of a Shawline let alone a DC1. It still baffles me why anyone fits only RCA sockets for digital coax that wants a 75Ω impedance.
Yeti - Am I correct in stating that the impedance of a 75ohm Coax is more stable if it is terminated RCA upstream and BNC downstream? (I could be way off)
Best if 75Ω BNC at both ends but I think one is better than none. I had an idea as to why after reading a brief primer on transmission lines but a member, @Simon-in-Suffolk who has a bit ore knowledge on the subject didn’t think much of my explanation.
You were called nutty elsewhere I believe, glad to see you made it over.