For connecting to a headphone amp, You can use one of those yes, and it’s a lead you’re more likely to find “off the shelf”, but you’ll only need to use one the two pairs of RCA phonos. Leave the other pair unconnected.
Dont connect to a power amp though. The Tape/Rec out signal is fixed Level so you’d likely blow your speakers!
Thanks. You say only the 2 output pins (and ground) are connected. Did you disconnect the other two pins? And are you saying when connected the output to the power amp was muted? You say the speaker output was muted
Thank you Ian. Please forgive my ignorance but I’m just trying to establish if an off the shelf 5 pin DIN to 2 x phono plugs will work to connect my NAC62 to my Chord Anni headphone amp and seem to have differing opinions on this. This comment would appear to say it will not work .“” However, if it’s a source interconnect with the ‘Play’ pins connected then it won’t work connecting a headphone amp to the Tape in/out DIN on a Naim pre-amp""
So that should be fine in my situation then. So I can use the headphone amp when in mute switch on the 62 as the Record pins which send the sound to the headphone amp will be unaffected but the sound to the NAC90 amp will be muted.
No, this appears to be for connecting a source to a pre-amp, which is how most off-the-shelf DIN-2 xRCA or 2xRCA-DIN interconnects will be. It will either need modification of the wiring at the DIN plug end (to move the wires from the Play to the Rec pins), or a specific custom lead made up. If you want an off-the-shelf interconnect then choose a tape interconnect with DIN5 - 4 x RCA Phono and just connect one set of RCA Phonos (the pair that are connected to the Tape out pins of the DIN).
It’s all covered in the FAQ that I linked to earlier. Here it is again…
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See the numbering on a 5 pin DIN 180 here. This shows the socket face (as shown in the image of the sockets on a Naim pre-amp, above) or the plug pins from the solder side (ie. behind);
The picture shows the “as viewed from the back” faces of the male (cable mounted) & female (chassis mounted) connectors, so one will be “reversed” wrt the other. Print it out then fold the paper down the middle…….