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Why so few devices with BNC's??

It's an ongoing amazement to me how many manufacturers use RCA's for 75 ohm digital connections.   Is this really to just save a couple bucks?  Lower end McIntosh stuff has RCA's as does most Japanese gear regardless of price.  It's not like BNC's are really so exotic, and 75 ohm cables are readily available.  In fact, the general lack of inputs is an annoyance.  Not everybody wants to use USB or Toslink.  Rant over. 😠  Thanks for reading.

[Please, this is NOT a thread to list all the exceptions.]

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cd318
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My Naim amps had BNC and DIN connectors.

A real pain in the arse they were too.

 

@charles1dad

Some of the absolutely best sounding audio components are utilizing RCA connection.

 

Agreed, but only 100%.

cd318
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@yoyoyaya

When later questioned on that decision, enigmatic Naim boss Julian Vereker would just say, we do it because we think it sounds better like that.

Naim were once an iconoclastic company, but in this particular case they took it too far.

After I eventually ditched the BNC/RCA adapters and got my Linn tonearm cable terminated with BNCs I was just a little disappointed to find that the amount of improvement in the sound equalled an absolute zero.

As Shakespeare might have said, it was all a much ado about nothing.

Thank you Julian, thank you Naim.

 

 

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