HiFace BNC or RCA?
Posted by: AMA on 28 January 2010
My Naim DAC is coming next week.
I plan to connect it to Logitech Transporter BNC output (transformer coupled) with Naim DC1 BNC-BNC. This will occupy one DAC's BNC input but the second BNC will be still available.
The other source will be PC/USB. I plan to go for HiFace USB. It's available in two options: RCA and BNC.
So shall I go for BNC or what?
I plan to connect it to Logitech Transporter BNC output (transformer coupled) with Naim DC1 BNC-BNC. This will occupy one DAC's BNC input but the second BNC will be still available.
The other source will be PC/USB. I plan to go for HiFace USB. It's available in two options: RCA and BNC.
So shall I go for BNC or what?
John,quote:Originally posted by js:
Seems reasonable to have just the one for the music portion if you already like the other for vid. I can hear the difference in DIG cables and BNC vs RCA. If I were you, I'd get a bnc adapter for a quid and try the DC1 there to find out if it matters enough with that source.
Dont you just want to give up some times and just go and pull your hair out?
Stu
Well maybe not mine and of coarse, I'd use a proxy.
js, you mean the one on top is BNC and the blond beneath is RCA? You got a deep sense of allegory 
I have recollected the shards of diligence and run the "RCA coax vs Tosslink" contest .
Tosslink is Van Den Hul Optocoupler and RCA coax is Klotz Reference.
Both are < 100 $ staff (I bought both long ago and forgot the actual price).
The difference is very marginal. RCA coax is a bit cleaner and transients are better including bass. It's very audible on high quality tracks with low scale music -- like jazz trio, guitar.
But it's also easy to pick up the difference on the background of mellow songs -- I clearly hear it on Boz Scaggs.
The difference is not clearly pronounced on aggressive rock or complex orchestral passages.
I also failed to track a difference in voices.
Anyway it was a good session -- I'm fully convinced to change for BNC coax route both for TP and PC.
If DC1 will not 'play back' my investments I shall consider it as charity to Naim which we all love anyway
Tosslink is Van Den Hul Optocoupler and RCA coax is Klotz Reference.
Both are < 100 $ staff (I bought both long ago and forgot the actual price).
The difference is very marginal. RCA coax is a bit cleaner and transients are better including bass. It's very audible on high quality tracks with low scale music -- like jazz trio, guitar.
But it's also easy to pick up the difference on the background of mellow songs -- I clearly hear it on Boz Scaggs.
The difference is not clearly pronounced on aggressive rock or complex orchestral passages.
I also failed to track a difference in voices.
Anyway it was a good session -- I'm fully convinced to change for BNC coax route both for TP and PC.
If DC1 will not 'play back' my investments I shall consider it as charity to Naim which we all love anyway