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In Reply to: RE: Best IC's for vintage RCA jacks posted by sanman on September 15, 2014 at 17:53:19
"Once more into the breach."
Neutrik/Rean NYS352G ("silver" barrel) and NYS352BG (black barrel) RCA plugs have gold plated contacts and will fit in the tightest of spaces.
Mogami W2549 shielded twin conductor bulk cable is low capacitance and "reasonably" priced.
If an interconnect cable is used between an older unit and a "modern" unit, use Canare F-10 RCA plugs at the end with room.
All of the above can be sourced from MarkerTek at reasonable prices.
Eli D.
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Why would you use 2-conductor instead of shielded 1-conductor such as Mogami W2333?
A very common way of setting interconnect cables up is to ground the shield at the upstream end only. The 2 wires are used to carry signal. The shield "dumps" noise into the chassis of the upstream component, but does not carry info.
Eli D.
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Eli D.
So, both the shield and one of the conductors are grounded at the upstream end?
"So, both the shield and one of the conductors are grounded at the upstream end?"
Correct. An exception to the "rule" is in wiring a turntable up. Phono carts. are differential and have no ground. That's why you will find isolated I/P jacks, whose signal grounds are tied to chassis ground via 0.01 μF. caps. in phono preamps. The caps. are used to "dump" shield noise into the chassis.
Eli D.
Hi Eli,
Does that change the way you would wire a shielded twin-ax cable for phono?
Dave
Dave, it sure does. In the case of a turntable, the shield gets grounded at the preamp end. Best is a custom cable, where the shield has its own pigtail that's tied to the preamp's grounding post and is never associated with a signal carrying conductor. However, the caps. in a well constructed phono preamp allow the use of cabling with the shield connected to signal ground at 1 end. FWIW, I use a set of "Straight Wire" cables that way on my backup TT. The setup sounds pretty darned good.
Eli D.
Thanks Eli! It looks like a custom phono cable is in my future. Although my system sounds great now, I have been considering DIY cables for a while.
Dave
My system has a 9-meter IC between the preamp and amp (s). I have had very good results with Canare GS 6, although it was so cheap I had to really adjust to liking it. It is not audiophile approved, you know. But it does sound better, for whatever reason than the cable I had been using that cost six times more.
I bought mine from Upscale Music.com. Plugs will work on vintage gear.
X
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
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