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need help on balanced interconnect connections

I am using balanced interconnects with my equipment. I recently added a piece from Accuphase and noticed that there balanced arrangement is not standard. They use a 1=ground, 2=negative, 3= positive arrangement. The rest of my equipment uses a 1=ground, 2=positive, 3=negative arrangement.

Can I use a standard balance interconnect between these configurations or does one have to be modified? and if so, how does this work?

The Accuphase equipment is being added between my pre-amp and amp.

Thanks for your help

Thanks for your help.

Dave
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fatparrot
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You may use any balanced interconnect without modification! You might want to correct the phase inversion by switching your amp speaker wires, so that (+) from your amp is connected to the (-) speaker terminal. This will return the signal at the speakers to the correct absolute phase. BE CAREFUL IF YOU ARE BI-WIRING SPEAKERS! You don't want to short out the amp, if you forget to reverse one of the sets of terminals at the speaker end...that is why I recommend making the switch at the amp terminals.

So, what are you using, their digital eq DG-28?
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