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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Showing 2 responses by yoyoyaya

When Naim changed over to BNC's in the late eighties we used to call the Bloody Nasty Connectors. Nothing against BNC per se, but putting them on the phono section of Naim's preamps at the time when most Naim customers had Linn Sondeks with RCA tonearm cables was just sheer perversity!

@cd318 - yes, it made zero improvement. However it did further enhance the cause of making Naim gear a closed ecosystem where the easiest thing for customers to do was trade up rather than out.

I did like the calendars they used to produce in the eighties though - sorry I didn't catch your Naim etc.!