As an alternative, if you don't want to mess with the resale value of your cable, you could simply swap the speaker terminal wires and restore absolute polarity. Just take speaker wire + and attach it to the speaker terminal -, and vice-versa. A lot of preamps also have a polarity switch on them.
Must XLR pin configurations match?
I will be connecting my SACDP to an integrated amp using balanced IC's. The SACDP uses the US standard with pin 2- while the amp employs the European standard with pin 2+. Must I find XLR ICs with internally crossed wires for pins 2&3 or will standard balanced interconnects work? Can I easily make the change myself? If not, are these IC's commonly stocked by vendors? Thanks.
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Click on this link, and view a Polarity adapter made by Ridge Street Audio ... Ridge street audio polarity adapter... It is a XLR adapter with a toggle switch in it, that allows you to switch Polarity back, and forth with out modifing your existing IC's. Saves you the soldering, and your cables shouldn't loss any resale value. Robert claims they are very transparent ... "I'm not a big fan of adapters but they can serve an important purpose and these are about as transparent as you'll get." His words HTH dave |
There was a thread that talked about this in a bit more detail here: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1081184159&read&keyw&zzwood+effect |
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