Thanks @NeilS
I’ve updated the diagram.
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Are you making this cable yourself? If so, the two seperate leads as you are planning is definitely the best approach. Though if you are ordering from somewhere like Chord, Atlas, or Naim themselves (via a dealer) it’s probably just as easy for them to provide two cables that terminate in a singe DIN. You wouldn’t even need a diagram. They’d be familiar enough to make the right cable as long as they know between what two things you’re connecting.
FWIW, I’m fond of making up custom cables using Mogami mic wire. It costs almost nothing but is very good. Just be sure to only common shield to ground at the DIN end so it it drains to one point.
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The wiring diagrams are underneath the sockets. Ch1 is left, ch2 is right. Just remember the picture is when looking at the socket not at the plug; if you look at the plug then it’s a mirror image.
The beauty of din is it’s both left and right in a single socket.
Thanks @robert_h but I need 2 separate cables (having 2x HCDR, I need one for socket 3, one for socket 4), as confirmed by @NeilS .
You only need to connect to one socket on the hicap. Look at your diagram, there’s one cable between hicap and 250.
You can separate if you want as sockets 2 and 3 are identical, but it’s more usual to use a single 4 pin din to 2x rca on the other end. A split single channel to one rca will be a custom build rather than an off the shelf standard lead, such as the one I showed above.
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My HiCap connects to a non-Naim power amp. This uses one cable with a DIN connector on the HiCap end. The cable then splits over the final 150 mm and terminates in two phono plugs. If you are feeding two separate speakers/amps, you could start with a single DIN connector on your cable that then quickly splits into two cables. Or you can just have two seperate cables, each with a 4-pin DIN connector at one end.
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You mean socket 2 and 3 are identical? In that case, it makes sense. I could connect both active speakers on socket 3 and a subwoofer (low level connection) on socket 2, right? @NeilS
Thank you in advance!
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Sockets 1, 2 & 3 are identical, so you still have a sub option even with two separate amp cables.
Regards
Neil.
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Fascinated to see where this goes?
Good luck
R
How do you connect 2x HiCap if you have one DR and one non DR?
Which is the bast way for DR? Into upgrade 1 or 2?
You really need matched Hicaps - either a pair of DR or non DR Hicaps. When using two Hicaps with a 282, one Hicap powers the left channel stages within the preamp the other the right, hence the need to match them.
In your situation, I’d just use one Hicap, the DR version, into upgrade 1.
More info here
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