DIN 5 wiring

[Solist]

Total newbie question, but I am a bearing guy, so please bear with me... (pun?)

About to order some cables, to connect the DAC to AMP. (RCA to DIN 5 - male to male) and need confirmation about wiring:

What would be the correct wiring? (If you reference the first picture?)

 

[sergeauckland]

DIN plugs for stereo audio (as opposed to MIDI) are wired as follows:

1 Left Out
2 Ground
3 Left In
4 Right Out
5 Right In

So from a DAC to the amplifier you need a cable with 3 & 5 wired with ground to 2

What I do is to buy a standard DIN-RCA with all four wired and just use the two that work!

S

 

[Solist]

DIN plugs for stereo audio (as opposed to MIDI) are wired as follows:

1 Left Out
2 Ground
3 Left In
4 Right Out
5 Right In

So from a DAC to the amplifier you need a cable with 3 & 5 wired with ground to 2

What I do is to buy a standard DIN-RCA with all four wired and just use the two that work!

S

Thank you for the reply!

I asked the same question on another forum and they told me that the following wiring is correct:


Told me, that 5 and 3 are outputs...?

I did the same (4 RCA to DIN 5), but since I wanted to order some speaker cables, I asked them if they can make also this interconnect.

 

[Zek]

Told me, that 5 and 3 are outputs...?

It depends on which side of the cable you look at, if it's on the source side, then it's the output.
According to the attached scheme, 3 and 5+1 are inputs.
Pins 5 and 1 are short-circuited so that a 3-pole DIN plug can be used.