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Rewire Marantz or Reterminate Cable

I'm buying a Marantz SA-14. Apparently the XLRs are wired pin 3 hot as opposed to the rest of my equipment which is pin 2 hot.

I have a pair of cables that could get reterminated. I think I would rather resolder the wires in the Marantz and stick a label on the back of it.

Opinions?

Thanks.
leoturetsky
rwwear
2,873 posts
 
What is the correct phase? I don't believe there are many if any pieces of recorded music that maintains the same phase thoughout the recording chain. And especially recordings from europe would be different.
onemug
784 posts
 
How about just reversing the speaker cables to flip the polarity back?
leoturetsky OP
103 posts
 
Flipping speaker cables would be fine except this is one source out of three so it must be fixed at the source end.

Rwwear, while technically you may be correct for all I know, the point remains that it would be nice to have the same setup here regardless of the cable or component.
rwwear
2,873 posts
 
The easiest way to fix the problem in that case would be to reverse the positive and negative at one end of your XLRs.
reb1208
518 posts
 
It is a very simple task to rewire the internal XLR jacks inside the Marantz gear. Invest the 10 minutes of time and be done with it.
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