Naimsake wrote: ↑2022-08-02 16:02
Thanks for the replies. As no one is shouting noooo! I’ll make up my own silvers With a DIN at one end and some nice shrink wrap to make it look pretty.
It's OK to do this, it's just not that cut'n dry. The barrel of the common Naim Din connector is not wide enough to accept Silver without removing the jacket, but Black is not a problem, with the blacks -and a little Din Dremeling- you can insert both black jackets & then tag both the shields -0v's- together directly at the 0v pin point instead of combining the shields further up the line and shrinking it all together, this is all minus Din rubber boot/strain relief
BUT you can still retain the internal Din cable clamp/support with a little extra working of it. This is much more difficult with the silvers and you'll need to remove a few inches of jacket from the Silvers -remember, you'll need to be able to slide the Din barrel back far enough for soldering/assembly clearance- and then thin shrink
each channel separately to be able to fit
both channels of Silver into the Din -also with a little Dremeling- as the overall diameter of two Silvers
with jacket is greater than the overall Dia. of the Din itself.
...Or you can remove a few inches of Silver jacket on both cables and combine both shields all within one piece of shrink to get both channels to fit into the Din whilst also knowing this will combine/interming a few inches of shield together before then being tagged together to the 0v Din pin, this is easier and strangely in a way like Naim OEM 4 core layout but I found this will also sound different when the 0'vs are not touching for the whole run like in the 4 core, but also the 4 core is just allround very different in concept & construction.
...Or you can even rewire the Preamp Chassis mounted Female Din with
two 0'v's on two separate pins -instead of just one combined 0v going directly to the star ground of your Naim Preamp you will use 2- and then wire the cable Din pins your assembling to match -to accept both L/R & their accompanying 0V shields from
each channel of cable, each channel
and each shield getting it's own Din pin- thus the 0v's from both channels of interconnect will then only combine first at the Star of the Preamp, I have tried all three -as well as many other combinations- and all three sound different.
Thought I had found one that I preferred & then a few months later I reverted back to an early original Naim grey 4 core built RCA to 5pin layout and that is the way I have stayed, I should have just listened to Julian. I've come to the conclusion the Linn cables can fool you -in a Naim system- with what may seem like more reveling information but at the cost of overall system balance and tune. ...Same with the Witch Hat Hat Pins, IME. - - But I'm talking Chrome Bumper stuff here, so take that into consideration. And instead of coming out of an Entity I did these A/B's coming out of an Aura going into a 32.5..
