Long interconnect suggestions ?

Posted by: Major-Tom on 23 September 2007

Hi all
I'm using an A/V reciever to power the centre & rear channels of my home cinema & my 252/300 to power the front channels. The front pre-outs from the A/V amp are connected to the A/V input on the 252 via a cheapo phono / phono cable with a hard wired DIN adaptor. This is less than satisfactory as the adaptor is a bit loose in the DIN socket & can hum if disturbed slightly...So..
What I need is a (reasonably) good quality cable 7 metres long with 2 phonos at one end & 180 degree 5 pin DIN plug on the other.
My dealer suggested I try ditching the DIN adaptor, mapping the Aux2 phono inputs & using those. I tried this this morning & it works OK, but I lose the useful unity gain A/V throughput feature.
Does anyone have any recommendations please?
I couldn't see anything suitable on eb*y, so suspect it may be a bespoke job.

Posted on: 23 September 2007 by manicatel

Try "flashback" cables. They do great service, at a good price, & understand Naim gear.
Matt.

Posted on: 23 September 2007 by Major-Tom

Thanks Matt, looks just the job. Very reasonable prices.
MT

Posted on: 23 September 2007 by pjl

I also use a long interconnect from my AV2 to my 252 since they are situated on opposite sides of the room. I use a cable that my dealer obtained from Naim - it is 8m long and had to be specially made and was fairly expensive (£100 I think). However I use a similar cable from the Chord Company to connect my DVD recorder to the 252 and this was £50. I definitely would ditch the phono-DIN adapter. From my experiments in the past even high quality ones have an absolutely catastrophic effect on the sound.

Posted on: 25 September 2007 by Major-Tom

Manicatel & Munch. Thank you both for your reccomendation. A BIG thumbs up for Flashback. I ordered the cable yesterday afternoon & it arrived this morning ! Excellent build & quality of materials. Night & day better than my previous spindly wire & DIN adaptor and now exactly the right length.

Regards
MT

Posted on: 05 October 2007 by Alan Paterson

Another thumbs up for Flashback. Excellent service.

Posted on: 06 October 2007 by Scirocco

How does the sound quality to compare, for example if it is possible to use Naim cables for the same application ? thanks, M

Posted on: 07 October 2007 by PJT

quote:
Originally posted by pjl:
I also use a long interconnect from my AV2 to my 252 since they are situated on opposite sides of the room. I use a cable that my dealer obtained from Naim - it is 8m long and had to be specially made and was fairly expensive (£100 I think). However I use a similar cable from the Chord Company to connect my DVD recorder to the 252 and this was £50. I definitely would ditch the phono-DIN adapter. From my experiments in the past even high quality ones have an absolutely catastrophic effect on the sound.

My dealer got a 5m Chord cable to connect between Av receiver (Denon) and NZAC72. Seems to work OK, however I now need to get it modified due to a 282 arriving