And since that’s the case, why doesn’t an SPDIF cable with a 75 ohm BNC > COAX adapter sound just as good as a BNC cable with hardwired BNC connectors?
The BNC cable I’m currently using uses Neutrik connectors and a Canare cable that literally says “coaxial” on it. I wish I could use my nice Pangea SPDIF cables for BNC instead...
I have no idea why a connector alone would sound different, but they did. I don't tell these things though , no one would believe.
And try a belden 1694a instead of the canare
BNC is a precision designed connecting system intended for RF use. RCA was originally designed as a cheap way to send unbalanced audio between audio components. Focus on cheap. It was never intended to handle RF signals. BTW spdif is a data format designator.
I get the terms for SPDIF/coaxial mixed up they are used pretty interchangeably all over the internet. SPDIF is the data signal format and coaxial is the kind of cable?
The problem is that many (myself included) get sloppy with terminology. AES vs spdif vs Opt typically refers to AES/EBU on 110R shielded twisted pair with XLR connectors. Spdif is typically 75R coax with BNC, RCA or (shudder) F connectors. Opt is typically Toslink. AES and spdif are nearly the same logical data stream with slight differences.
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