Wouldn't my system sound terrible if I have the speakers wired out of phase?
@billpete , even though you addressed this to @decooney, I'll quickly butt in to say that if BOTH speakers were hooked up red to black they would not be out of phase with each other (if that's what you meant), and since the SLP-98 is phase inverted, I think that this would put them in phase with the preamp. I think this is the difference between absolute phase and relative phase. I think. @erik_squires is someone else who could probably clear this up for us.
(My CDP has a phase inversion switch so the phase of the CDP, in balanced mode, can be matched to the preamp; for a while I misunderstood the way my preamp was set up and I had the phase set wrong on my CDP and I could not hear a difference. Which is not to say that there was not a difference, just not one that jumped out and slapped my face. But it could be the difference between listening fatigue and happiness at the end of a multi hour session.)