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Can a digital cable have different connectors?

I purchased a Chord MScalar to use with my current and future DACs. Unfortunately, the MScalar only has optical and BNC outputs. While this is fine because my current DAC has a BNC input, many other DACs I’m interested in does not.  Seems like SPDIF cables can have different terminations like RCA or BNC.


Can a digital cable work with one end terminated with BNC and the other end another type of connector?

kennyc
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Get a digital cable that is BNC on one end and RCA on the other.

DH Labs Silversonic makes a good one.

you can also get an RCA/BNC adapter and try it.

no issues at all

czarivey
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True FACT:

it cannot be bare wire

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jjss49
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fuzztone
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Yes

 

kennyc OP
1,282 posts
 

Thanks to all. It was very confusing.
I wasn’t sure if I’d have to shelf my MScalar if my upgraded DAC didn’t have BNC inputs.

I’ll probably move forward with purchasing WAVE STREAM BNC cable.  I’ll ask them if they will terminate to RCA on one side which seems sonically better than an an added layer of an a BNC to RCA adapter.  Although I have a soldering iron, not sure if I have the skills to re-terminate the WAVE STREAM BNC to RCA myself using a high quality RCA connector like from WBT - seems doable.

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