Inside the black rings there are resistors.
Have you a picture? and if so is at the terminating, or source end or both?
Iāll try and take a pic without it exploding in my handā¦
Thanks, Iāll also get my ohm meter on one of my spare hilines
Should be easy to measure if so. Why would they want to add a resistor in a signal cable?
Quiteā¦ I have a spare Hiline DIN to phono ā¦ Iāll measure after breakfastā¦ they could also be capacitors or some sort of RFI L pad. Other manufacturers such as DNM do that to help mitigate RF intermodulation in audio components.
Unless mine is a bodged repair, it has been sent back four times, either way it sounds lovely, much better than the stock cable.
Can anyone here explain the resistor? Iām not sure about the end of the cable, iām not going to go pulling it apart to find out. All plugged back in now and all is well.
I think itās a clever bit of kit but I have vivid recollections of having difficulty in locating the floating pins (with the risk of bending them!), and this is where perhaps the vulnerability of the primary locating lug (as @Stephen_Tate has āpoppedā in his pic) comes in to play. Holding just the main collar can expose this connection.
The above said, my later Hi-Line between S/Cap (Superline) and Pre locates without issue, and appears a tad more robust. Either that or Iām instinctively handling it with more care(?).
Iām probably incorrect here, but in the early days I donāt think the collar capping was accurate as to orientation of fitment, hence the struggles?
Thanks, I was hoping to see what it was connected to
Fell apart again, when I tried to reclip the small arms broke off from that ring leaving me with an interconnect I now need to tape. Iām trying with masking tape. We will see how it sounds. It always sounds off when I have removed it and it takes a while for it to get back on song. Bummer it broke though.
Yes it does sound very, very good.
Yes of course. The resistor leg-ends appear to have heat-shrink over the solder joints, therefore itās quite difficult to peer inside and see where things are actually connected without properly taking the whole plug apart.
I do wonder why Naim havenāt brought out a Mk2 version with maybe aluminium collars as opposed to the plastic ones. Is performance impacted that much if they do? Who knows? Seems ok for the SuperLumina version thoughā¦
Yes, so I measured the cable and there was no measurable resistance, everything checked out at about 0.1 ohms ā¦ but the picture suggests one end of the component is connected to the shield in the cable, so could be a shield leakage resistor to ground.
I believe a shield normally adds capacitance. And naim seems to not like high capacitance. Could this be a way of reducing it?
Two failures here in 12 years. Both replaced free of charge but I wasnāt sad to see the back of it when I moved to non-Naim streaming. Quite telling that we have this and the Burndy discussion going simultaneously. Notdiscussions you see with cables from elsewhere.
If Iāve understood the restistor connections correctly (from a photo) its linking the screens to -ve.
A screen will add capacitane thru its proximity to the signal conductors, but this will be a very small number.