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Berkeley Audio Design SPDIF Input

According to their website and the photo, the SPDIF input takes only BNC, not RCA termination. I know of RCA adaptors for BNC terminations, but do not know of RCA to BNC adaptors, if there are such things.

What SPDIF digicables are BAD owners using? I use a Stealth Sextet AES/EBU for my transport to DAC, but am not aware of equivalent quality BNC terminated cables.

Thanks.

Neal
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dotsystem
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These are supposedly impendance matched:

http://www.amazon.com/Monster-VA-MBFR-3H-Female-Adapters/dp/B0009HMUH0/ref=pd_cp_e_1
dotsystem
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Much has been made over the impedance of BNC versus RCA connectors. In my system, an RCA terminated digital cable with so called 75 ohm RCA/BNC Monster adaptors sounded better than 2 BNC terminated cables.

So to me, the issue of what will provide the best sound is not all that clear cut to me. I suspect it depends on the available terminations and design details of each unit, The Monsters adaptors do sound better than the other adaptors I tried (crappy nickel?). Also, the more more metal mass, the longer the terminations may take to settle in. I find XLR, binding posts and BNCs all seem to take longer than RCA.
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