Hi, advice please!
I’m no longer using my Naim Headline with my main system, and want to move it to the small setup I have in another room. This setup has a Naim Uniqute 2, I want to know if I can connect my Headline to it using a Din to rca adapter for example to connect to the pre-amp outputs on the Uniqute2.
Thanks
Pete
Do you have a power supply for the headline?
Ref connecting to a uq, use a 2xrca > 5 pin din interconnect, the headline is the same as a power amp as far as the uq is concerned.
Pete, assuming you already have a power supply for the NAHA, the issues you will have here are two-fold; first, unless it’s a rare RCA Phono version of the NAHA2, the Headline connects via a DIN5, so you will need to make up some kind of RCA Phono to female DIN5 adaptor, or else have the Headline DIN changed to RCA Phonos. Secondly, the UQ2 only has a pre-out, not a line out or REC out, so you will be going through both the UQ2’s volume control and also the Headline’s, which will mean you’ll need to carefully juggle both controls and it will have an effect on performance.
Thanks really appreciated.
I would get a cable with a female din to rca to get round the cable problem.
To the question of performance, do you think it would mean performance would be worse than the headphone jack on the Uniqute2 itself?
Pete
I don’t know, you would have to to try it and see.
If you buy an interconnect named as “din to rca” you might be unlucky to buy one wired as din output (aka record). The 5 pin din works both ways via different pins; ie buy rca to din.
I think you’ll need an adapter rather than just a cable as the input cable on the Headline is often (always?) captive and can’t just be unplugged.
An adapter can either be integrated or a cable - Naim’s own Headline convertor, which was an adapter that allowed the Headline to be connected directly to a Naim source was a short cable with a female DIN at one end and a male DIN at the other that switched the pins from the REC to PLAY ones.
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