Digital Coax to XLR adapters?

Al, you're right 58ns it is. I took fastest hypothetical slew rate corresponding to 6MHz being 1/6e6/2pi=27ns. It would be more realistic to take 1/3 of the cycle for -3dB attenuated signal. I'm not sure if 27ns in series with 25ns should be calculated as square root of the sums of squares but if it is we get SQRT(25^2+58^2)=63ns - very slow. It might be a very bad thing in a noisy system. Reclocker is always wonderful solution opening possibility of PC Audio server. My Benchamark DAC1 has reclocker built in reducing jitter effects making possible problems that transformer brought (jitter) inaudible.

The input on your DAC is AES/EBU which is a balanced XLR connection, but intended for a digital signal at 110 ohms. Your coax input on your DAC and output on your CD player is a coax S/PDIF input, which is a 75 ohm digital signal. So no, you can't use a connector to adapt one to the other

BINGO .. also the Single Ended out's OUTPUT voltage may not be high enough to drive the AES's INPUT stage to full rating

But this should do the trick and kill two birds with one stone Monarchy Dip Classic

It will accept Optical .. Co Ax and AES/EBU on it’s inputs and it will output a De jittered signal on either Co Ax or AES balanced

Run one Co Ax to the Dac (present set up) and the other Co Ax to the DIP and take the Balanced output from the DIP to the Balanced inputs on the Dac ... I’d also run the OPTICAL out from the Sony CD carousel to the OPTICAL In on the DIP

What ever Co Ax and the OPTICAL feed you run through the DIP will get the benefit from the DIP’s jitter reduction circuit

So you have a home for your other Co Ax out .. can use your AES input on the Dac properly and get some Jitter reduction also

I think you can still buy the DIP Classic new from Monarchy for around $100

To all, wow, what great responses. Yeah, I figured this wasn't just a simple "connection" adapter but also required some sort of format/signal modification from one format to another, which is why I asked here.

The responses were, frankly, bewildering, not because they were inappropriate but because my frame of reference is like a kindergartner sitting in an advanced calculus class.

"I think you can still buy the DIP Classic new from Monarchy for around $100"

Would it were true. List price these days is $249 per the website (thanks for that link; that's a perfect component for this situation). Not sure it's worth the investment for as often as I'd need to use the DVD through the NAD, though; at this point in time in my system's evolution I'd be happy to simply unhook one and connect the other. But that does not diminish my appreciation of the wealth of info provided here, most appreciated.