Confused about adapter for RCA to BNC

@audphile1

... or getting the cable reterminated. I reached out to Synergistic but they haven’t responded yet.

Regarding the poor fit, the interior dimension of the barrel of the male rca end of the adapter is too big compared to the exterior of the barrel of the female rca socket in the dac. In other words, it’s too loose of a fit. By a lot. It simply fails to make the connection. The last time I demo’d ICs from The Cable Co. I ran into the opposite problem with one cable pair.

I found an adapter listed on the Transparent site for $10. Given their reputation for expensive wire, I was very surprised!

Today I also discovered that due to the stiffness of the Synergistic cable (twisted geometry) , the only way the Mojo will fit into its bay is parallel to the back wall. I could live with this, but it looks a bit weird.

I’m feeling better, today, thanks.

Interesting. Strange choice by the dac manufacturer 

@stuartk - The analog rca jacks in the X SE are "Furutech rhodium plated low-mass RCAs directly soldered to the PC board." The digital S/PDIF rca jack looks different so I am not sure whether that is a Furutech or not. However, I have never had an adaptor or digital rca cable fit loosely so that is very odd about the Cardas adaptor.

@audphile1 , @mitch2 

Because I've run into a situation where the barrels on an rca IC pair didn't fit the Jacks on my Hegel H390 (several other cables fit just fine), I'm inclined to give the dac builder the benefit of the doubt but I can't definitively prove whether it's the dac or the adapter that's to blame in this case. 

I'll just have to see how the adapter that I'm expecting to arrive later in the week fits. Hopefully, it won't continue to be be an issue, going forward.

And the cardas adapter fits just fine on the rca outs of this dac? Interesting to try it just to check.
If the new adapter isn’t a tight fit I would reach out to the manufacturer and confirm i looked at a few pictures and I see different connectors are used for coax in and it’s not consistent from dac to dac…this is typical with boutique manufacturers as they would use whatever is available  I’m not excluding the possibility for that being the case even with the parts used inside the chassis as well.