Audiofeil, the manuals for my Soundsmith phono pre and KAB filter are basically one page inserts with not much detail. As someone with an advanced degree, albeit not in science, I feel silly being confused by a seemingly straightforward task, but simply want to make sure the chain is wired correctly. And it is confusing since you can't just connect red terminal to right channel throughout the system. You will have to reverse it at some point because the phono pre marked the left channel black and right channel white, which is apparently opposite on my main amp. Interestingly, the Soundsmith manual (which looks like a Zerox copy) has a black&white picture of the preamp and it looks like the right channel is black and left white, which is the other way around on the actual preamp.