gerlando
Prog Rocker
VD Blue interconnects???
Van Damme interconnects, are they any good?
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paulfromcamden
Baffled
The Van Damme speaker cable comes in blue studio grade and black tour grade but I think the microphone cable used for interconnects comes in pretty much any colour you like.
cooky1257
pfm Member
Gotham GAC4/1 star quad is really good stuff. https://www.gothamcable.com/en/gothamcables/starquad/11001gac41
Tarzan
pfm Member
Part no: 268 - 500, very, smooth, full sounding, not tried any other VD interconnects as l find these to my taste.
Hope this helps.
May I ask what Naim amps.
No. I used to have a pair on an old subwoofer which I sold several years ago, not on components.
toecutter
pfm Member
I have NAC112 - NAP150 - FLATCAP XS
I would go with standard Naim cables at this level.
davidsrsb
pfm Member
Cables made with poor insulation coating process, poor soldering and rubbish connectors most certainly do break down.
Foo cables are especially prone to this.
Craig B
Re:trophile
designacable.com supply a ready made Naim input compatible 2 x RCA to 1 x DIN in Mogami 2965 (co-ax pair) in lengths ranging from 25cm to 10m. Personally, I'd have them put a Preh 71430-050 locking DIN on in preference to the gold flash none locking Rean (I also prefer Rean NYS373 RCA plugs over the Switchcraft ones).
TIP: 50cm is always too short. Even 0.5m can be a pain when it comes time to rearrange things.
P.S. They also carry Belden, Sommer, and Van Damme, and will basically make anything you want.
toecutter
pfm Member
All my standard cables are Naim original.
Other cables for my electronics using RCA fitted with DIN plugs.
I bought an interconnect custom length 8M from Flashback sales UK when owner was in business, he passed away a few years ago.
From CBE-UK bought from ebay, I also have a Gotham GAC1 interconnect custom length of 8M, when I order this cable I gave seller instructions how to make the cable for me, this w@nker doesn't know how to follow instructions when he manufactures custom cables, he put the cable backwards with printed text in the wrong direction and solder plugs in the wrong way.
Would you buy from such an idiot?
I think not!?
Also have 2 of these.
2m Linn interconenct cable = RCA soldered to a DIN Naim
toecutter
pfm Member
I red somewhere that Chord don't recommend interconnect cables less than 1m lengths ??
Audio quality woouldn't be any good?
Using lengths from 0,5 to 0,75 would be less good?
Why is that?
toecutter
pfm Member
My RCA plugs on the Gotham GAC1 interconnect detoriated, insulation cracked, cheap plugs!
gez
pfm Member
Pretty difficult to beat the electrical properties of Van Damme Tour Grade Classic XKE Starquad cable for use as an interconnect. You'll be hard pressed to find a cable with lower resistance and capacitance, which are the two most important electrical properties required for an interconnect cable. Plus it also ticks "audiophile" check boxes by using a combination of ultra-pure oxygen-free Copper and Silver plated oxygen-free Copper strands with a Cross-linked Polyethylene dialectric.
www.van-damme.com
Tour Grade Classic XKE Starquad Microphone Cable | Van-Damme
Van Damme tour grade classic XKE Starquad microphone cable useful for outside broadcast microphones or microphones used in areas in close proximity to large power feeds.
www.van-damme.com
gez
pfm Member
They're pro cables. The guarantee has nothing to do with their electrical properties. It's a physical guarantee that the cables will not break given the kind of use that pro touring cables get put to. If you've never been involved with setting audio gigs up or seen how "roadies" treat cabling you'd not realise just how tough a physical life they have.
gez
pfm Member
Electrically there's no such thing as "too short" a cable. The shorter the better. From a practical level most kit will be too far apart for a 0.5M cable, 1M is often a little on the long side and 0.75M can often be "about right". Most people just go for 1M as it's an easy option. Unless the electronics is extremely badly designed it's not going to care about the difference in electrical properties between 0.5M and 1M.
toecutter
pfm Member
do you strongly recommend mogami interconnects for naim?
do they sound audiophile and good ??
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
Any cables I buy new are made from van damme cable by these guys: https://custom-lynx.co.uk/
Del monaco
Del Monaco
I have Van Damme and Worlds Best Mogami. Good and priced well.
hifinutt
hifinutt
never seen that . most of chord`s cables available in 0.5m interconnects
toecutter
pfm Member
This info I found from a swedish hifi shop for Naim audio.
" Standard length of Clearway DIN cables is 1m. Many years ago we established that shorter length cables have a detrimental effect on Naim Audio amplifiers. Longer custom lengths are not a problem."