Does Anyone Make A Naim 4pin DIN to 2 RCA adapter?

[Underdog64]

I’m about to get my Naim Supernait back from service.I was biamping it with a Schiit Vidar power amp (using the sub outs) cause I did not have a 4 pin DIN to 2 RCA cable .Just coming off unemployment right now and funds are tight so I was wondering if Kontak or some other vendor makes a 4pin DIN to 2 RCA adapter so I can use my RCA cables connecting the two amps but using the BIAMP jack on the Naim instead of the sub outs giving me better sound quality.

[Innocent_Bystander]

Not sure why the sound quality would be any different, other than any effect different cables may have?

[spile]

Any reasonable quality adapter will do.

[MaxBertola]

I seem to remember that the SN’s sub-out and preamp-out are exactly the same. Anyway, the notorious bidding site should be plenty of ready made DIN-4 to RCA cables.

[ChrisSU]

I believe there is a resistor in the sub output which allows the preamp to drive long sub cables, and can cause a small loss of sound quality. So I would use the DIN, although I would buy a cable, not an adapter which might also reduce sound quality.

[MaxBertola]

Years ago, with my first SuperNait, I wanted to connect an N-Sub with a longish cable and I asked Naim about it. Steven Hopkins - prompt and kind as usual - told me to have a so and so cable made with a so and so resistor soldered inside the DIN plug. I cannot remember the values. And I also seem to remember Richard Dane having posted here that the two outputs are the same. But things might have changed over the years (and my many SNs )

[ChrisSU]

Hi Max, this post, which I believe was made by an anonymised @HungryHalibut indicates that the SN3 has a slugged sub out. One might assume that all of the Naits that have a dedicated sub out, as opposed to a pre out, are configured in this way, but as far as I’m aware Naim do not make this information available.

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@Stephen_Tate not only did I find you the sub, I have some more news that will most certainly cheer you up. As I said above I asked Steve Sells about using a subwoofer on the Supernait 3 and whether resistors are necessary. This is an extract from his reply: ‘The subwoofer output on the SN3 was designed for longer runs of cable and has the 100R resistors built in. The pre-amp output bypasses the 100R for max transparency.’ This means that you are good to go with bog standard RCA sub leads. Cho…

[MaxBertola]

Thanks. It makes sense. I was referring to the original SN, which probably hadn’t the 100R resistor on the sub-out that Steven Hopkins prescribed inserting in the cable.