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Post by guitfiddler on Feb 23, 2021 17:54:46 GMT -6
I need some good quality Word Clock BNC cables to clock my converters. I currently have two Apogee16X ad/da and my Dangerous Music Converts and I don’t know if $20 is any different than $50 up to $100. I see there are a bunch on the market and I just need a good quality cable that doesn’t break the bank. Anyone?
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Post by ericn on Feb 23, 2021 18:20:15 GMT -6
I always found most molded RG59/RG6 to work fine. In fact I found short inexpensive WC cables and proper termination better than expensive cables and no termination. If you have questions about proper termination ask the manufacturers of your gear, why ? Because they know if their design includes any termination.
I also have found using BNC “ T” connectors perferable to looping through gear, but experiment T’s and terminators are cheap!
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Post by guitfiddler on Feb 23, 2021 18:21:44 GMT -6
I always found most molded RG59/RG6 to work fine. In fact I found short inexpensive WC cables and proper termination better than expensive cables and no termination. If you have questions about proper termination ask the manufacturers of your gear, why ? Because they know if their design includes any termination. I also have found using BNC “ T” connectors perferable to looping through gear, but experiment T’s and terminators are cheap! . just in one unit out the other and so on. Thanks Eric. |
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Post by ericn on Feb 23, 2021 18:27:48 GMT -6
I always found most molded RG59/RG6 to work fine. In fact I found short inexpensive WC cables and proper termination better than expensive cables and no termination. If you have questions about proper termination ask the manufacturers of your gear, why ? Because they know if their design includes any termination. I also have found using BNC “ T” connectors perferable to looping through gear, but experiment T’s and terminators are cheap! . just in one unit out the other and so on. Thanks Eric. Yeah I just find using the T adaptors more stable over all especially in AVID systems |
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Post by svart on Feb 23, 2021 20:07:26 GMT -6
I need some good quality Word Clock BNC cables to clock my converters. I currently have two Apogee16X ad/da and my Dangerous Music Converts and I don’t know if $20 is any different than $50 up to $100. I see there are a bunch on the market and I just need a good quality cable that doesn’t break the bank. Anyone? Any cable with decent connectors will do. |
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Post by Quint on Feb 24, 2021 8:06:21 GMT -6
I've had Redco make them for me twice in the past. They will even make you a termination cap if you need one of those too.
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Post by srb on Feb 24, 2021 8:12:54 GMT -6
I'll be glad to make you some with good Canare cable and solid BNC connectors.
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Post by Ward on Feb 24, 2021 8:52:42 GMT -6
Nothing makes any difference for the first 3 months and/or first 3 disconnections/reconnections.
But after that? You really get what you pay for!!
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Post by svart on Feb 24, 2021 10:24:20 GMT -6
I tested a quad shielded high-end RG6 cable with brass/gold soldered RCA connectors vs. a cable that came with a cheap stereo. I was testing SPDIF bit dropping at 5MHz+..
The cheapest of the cheap cable worked just fine with no bits lost up through the multiple MHz range. The fingers on the molded RCA connector were a little flimsy but otherwise the very high end cable had zero benefit.
At word clock frequencies (about 10X less than what I was testing) you'll see no issues other than the connector quality. BNC connectors are inherently better at interconnections than RCA so just get something with a non-tarnishing finish (gold or hard tin/chrome) and you'll be fine.
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