Naim Interconnect Cable

Now I'm no engineer and this is purely how I understand Naim's approach, based on listening and reading between the lines of various Naim newsletters and their other publications...

Naim transfer signal via a 5-pin DIN system rather than the traditional RCA system.
The advantages of DIN plugs are large. They use only ONE ground pin rather than the two found on RCAs. This allows the signal to be properly referenced to earth throughout the system and avoids modulation distortions created by two ground references, ie RCAs.
The Naim interconnect avoids the garbage caused by those distortions without having to use expensive cable. Therefore the music signal is effectively cleaner because it is not carrying all the noise along with it.

No matter how hard you try, RCA cables suffer from this problem and no one seems to effectively engineer out the initial design flaws.
Naim also point out that systems that claim to be 'star-earthed' internally are wasting their time if they use RCA cables.

Also Naim use the cable as part of the curcuit, at least with regards to their amps, so a much more synergistic design is realised.

There are probably people out there who know 10x what I know and I defer to their judgement, but that's how I understand it.

Joe90

Hello Joe 90,

Thanks for the reply, I tried to negate the earth effect by having only one earth wire connected. That is normal Naim DIN at the pre-amp end and the centre pin earth wire connected to only one of the rca plugs at the cd player(an arcam cd 32 fmj.)
So we are still left with the effects of the wire itself, as you say, the Naim input only seems to be optimised for the naim interconnect wire. Still ...Anyone for Kimber Silver?

Regards Robert

I've not heard of anyone getting good results from Kimber. People have tried Nordost and opinions on the results are divided.
Chrod Co. seems to be the best alternative.
And really cheap too.

Kimber probably works great with other kit but not with Naim.

Joe90