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Help: Accuphase XLR pin 3 hot into XLR pin 2 hot? (no unbalanced avail)

I'm picking up an old Accuphase G-18 equalizer to offset my hearing loss. My research shows that the G-18 has pin 3 hot.

How do I resolve this hook up anomaly, as the Accuphase has pin 3 hot, and my Boulder 865 has pin 2 hot? There are no unbalanced inputs on my Boulder.

Thanks, a befuddled Ken
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rhljazz
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Another option which I performed on my Sony CD player is to unsolder the wires into the XLR plug and swap the wires to match the new standard format of pin 2 hot.    
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geoffkait
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According to the Polarity Pundit exactly 92% of CDs are out of polarity. So folks would be much better off putting their system out of polarity. Then only 8% of CDs would sound out of polarity. Also, according to the polarity pundit LPs don't suffer the same fate in terms of percentages. Looking on the bright side for just a moment since a very high percentage of CDs released in the last 20 are overly compressed, what's one more glaring defect like polarity?

sfall
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That's not what he meant. This has to do with the recordings themselves. Polarity isn't always the same. Sometimes its inverted, and sometimes its not. So, if you set your system up for non inverted, the recording may be inverted. If you only want your system to be non inverted, then you'll have to keep switching your system back and forth.
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