DeVerm;348901 Wrote: > Those are it's advantages over coax, but you have to look at it's > disadvantages too: limited cable length (say 5 meters), no tight radius > in bending allowed, and most important: you convert from electrical to > light and back. Every conversion has it's problems. > > Earlier in this thread I wrote that you can buy BNC connectors that are > insulated from the chassis. I just tried to find insulated RCA and yep > it exists: http://www.futurlec.com/Plugs-RCA.shtml > look at items 4 and 5. > > cheers, > Nick.
Thanks for the link - that is interesting. I wonder what practical advantage isolating the RCA body from the chassis would bring - it seems like directly bonding them to chassis ground would certainly provide the least-resistance path to ground for any cable shield currents (and RFI) to travel, instead of riding around/through any sensitive circuit path instead. Benchmark has much experience in building DACs, so I'm sure they must have a good reason for this design choice. Regarding the electrical-to-/light conversion process, I wonder what problems this conversion can still have in a DAC like the Benchmark. If both interface jitter (a solved problem with this DAC) and data-errors (not an issue unless the DAC is broken) are handled, what possible other issues from the conversion could remain? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but that never stops me! :) -- NewBuyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
