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You might want to take a closer look at these connectors.http://www.wbtusa.com/pdf/0110.pdfhttp://www.wbtusa.com/pdf/0210cu.pdf
......Best way for audiophiles would be to replace the RCA female connectors on their transports and DACs and install SMA/BNC connectors. Then I can just sell you my cable with SMA/BNC connectors on each end. This would be a perfect solution.
NeoTech is a coax cable I believe (which is a good thing), but the WBT connectors are not designed for a coax cable. You can try using Canare if the NeoTech's have a solid center conductor (you'll need a $100 crimp tool, plus die set), if the center conductor is stranded then you won't be able to use the Canare, unless ofcourse you can solder the center pin on, which is the wrong way to do it for that particular pin.WBT connectors are meant for audiophile nonsense 2 conductor cables with hanging shield (yuck!). You could theoretically twist and solder the coax shield to the one single outer pin, but that is again a wrong way of doing it (poor shielding). The point it this... Coax cable is the only proper way to make audio/digital interconnects, but there aren't that many coax RCA connectors out there. Vampire is the best by far. Not only does it have a pressure fit that clamps around the outer braid, but you can also solder the center pin and use either solid core, or stranded cable. Plus, the connector itself is silver plated and then gold plated to resist corrosion and has a Teflon dielectric (the best). P.S. The Canares don't measure 75 ohms any better than any other RCA connector. Plus, 75 ohms is only important for digital audio cables, for analogue audio it makes virtualland it does not involve twisting the braid os other shieldingference. For video, it also makes no difference, because most people are using HDMI cables these days.
1.) Please tell me how exactly do you attach the shield (outer conductor) of the coax cable to the WBT connector in question? This connector only has a single point/pin outer conductor. Therefore the braided shield can only be soldered to that single point. At this point of termination, it no longer acts as a proper coax cable, nor is it shielded well. The inner body of the WBT is plastic and even though the outer cosmetic cylinder is metal, it does not touch the outer conductor, so poor shielding.2.) I don't use that Belden cable. I use a much higher quality military cable for digital. I did find a mistake in my specs on the website thanks to you. The dielectric for my digital cable is extruded PTFE, not foamed FFEP. Will have to fix that tomorrow when I get a chance.3.) Yes, it can be a ground loop hell and that's because some people insist on using a 2 conductor + shield for their RCA interconnect cables. What is the point of that when a coax cable is significantly superior? If you solder the shield at both ends, then you'll have the shield as an outer conductor and one of the 2 center conductors as an outer conductor, illogical. The other way around is to leave the shield hanging on one end. Just as illogical!! At that point why not just use a 2 conductor cable and connect a huge antenna to one of the grounds to pick up all the garbage?4.) In recording studios, the cables are usually XLRs. These cables have 3 pins, so both center conductors are connected as well as the shield (at both ends!) between pin 1 and pin 1. If the equipment is improperly manufactured then one can experiment by connecting the shield in different ways ( like disconnecting it at one end), or using a capacitor. But this is the fault of the equipment and if someone couldn't ground their equipment properly, then no one should be buying it anyways. And speaking of microphones in recording studios, I've never seen a hanging shield on the cable, what would happen to phantom power?Care to explain what facts I have wrong?
FYI, many mastering studios (Art Ludwig, Bernie Grundman, Paul Stubblebine to name 3 good ones) run the entire signal chain single ended.Dave
Dave, when you say single ended, are you referring to the shields floating at one end or the use of unbalanced interconnects - using RCA, not XLR, connectors?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that balanced connections generally were at a higher "wattage" than RCA's and therefore had a better signal to noise ratio. And that's where the improvement was to be found, as well as the increased shielding capability of a balanced connection.
