Balanced Phase... USA vs EUROPEAN ??

[Don C]

 

[Don C]

Is this an issue? Never ran across this before? From Marantz SA-10 CD/SACD player manual.

Balanced phase can be changed on remote. NO need to rewire balanced pin out.

How do other manufactures handle this?

 

[aLLeARS]

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) was founded in the US in 1948.
The AES standard for XLR pinout is:
Pin 1 - Ground
Pin 2 - Hot
Pin 3 - Cold
That is how virtually all microphones and professional gear is wired.

Whoever wrote that manual at Marantz must have been smoking something funny.

 

[microstrip]

Yes, you just have to change the absolute phase in the equipment or in the speaker cables. Some manufacturers used this reverse pin 2 and 3 assembly - I remember that some old Jeff Rowland and Accuphase units had this characteristic.

 

[MarkusBarkus]

...often Japanese components have the phase designed differently. Luxman, for example, has a switch on the rear panel to change the pin config (Phase Inverter).

 

[Don C]

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) was founded in the US in 1948.
The AES standard for XLR pinout is:
Pin 1 - Ground
Pin 2 - Hot
Pin 3 - Cold
That is how virtually all microphones and professional gear is wired.

Whoever wrote that manual at Marantz must have been smoking something funny.

Thanks! The manual is wrong!

 

[carolus]

...often Japanese components have the phase designed differently. Luxman, for example, has a switch on the rear panel to change the pin config (Phase Inverter).

... Idem with (in side) my Esoteric K-01 with mode selection: XLR2 (pin 2 hot) or XLR3 (pin 3 hot) ..

It's all music (I am happy).
Karel

 

[Alrainbow]

As far as I remember there is 3 wiring types for xlr bal topology why I have no idea but it’s matters big and I suspect why some like certain interconnections over others
Even if we couple one to another to make them longer matters if the coupling is not the same