Mejames, if I wanted to run balanced from the AA Capitole II to a US made amp you're saying I would have to have the cable custom made so the hot wire would run from pin #2 to pin #1? Am I correct in my assumption?
Mejames: You are totally wrong!!!! Most of European and American products are pin#2 positive. Only Japaness and a few western products are pin#3 positive(like Jeff Rowland).Just go with the balanced, rewireing is not necessary.
XLO ELECTRIC normally wires all XLR balanced cables with pin #1 wired as hot[+]. They always ask how you want it wired for your application. Read older thread here about the Capitol Mark 1 is wired with pin #2 as hot. Emailed globe audio the importer to confirm this as fact never received a reply. my Interconnects wired with pan #2 hot on the sending end only is working fine with my Rowland amplifier currently?
There is something confusing about that cabling problem. My capitole mk2 works fine with a standard XLR to XLR Cardas cable connected to a krell KRC3 preamp.
But when I connect it directly to my power amps using my usual mixed XLR/Cinch cable I only get a "psshhhhh..." and , well... nothing else. Well the same cable works perfectly between krc3 preamp and the power amplifiers. So something must be peculiar with the capitole XLR output.
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