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MILAN

Connector wiring

The amplifier inputs are designed to accept balanced (three conductor) connections, and it is recommended that this method be used since it offers the best rejection of noise, hum and radio interference, especially where long cable runs are involved. XLR connectors should be wired pin 2 hot, while the standard wiring for 3-pole jack plug connectors is tip hot (+ve) and ring cold (-ve) as shown below.

	hot
	cold
	ground
Balanced male XLR	Balanced female XLR

ground

cold hot

Some signal sources such as keyboards, acoustic guitars with on-board electronics, and some microphones commonly provide only an unbalanced output on a 2-pole jack connector. The Milan loudspeaker can handle these connections without any rewiring since pin 3 (-ve) of the input is automatically grounded by the jack plug.

tip - hot ring - cold

3-pole jack (balanced) sleeve - ground 2-pole Jack (unbalanced)

tip - hot

cold ground

If an unbalanced source is to be connected to an input channel via the XLR input connector, either 2-pole or 3-pole jack plugs can be used. In both cases pin 3 should be connected to pin 1 (ground) at the XLR as shown here.

tip	1 (ground)
ring	2
sleeve	3

tip	1 (ground)
sleeve	2
	3

Some sources such as mp3 players or CD players commonly provide 2-pole unbalanced phono connectors, and these can be connected to a Milan input channel via either the XLR connector or jack connector. In either case wire the connectors as follows:

tip	1 (ground)
sleeve	2
	3

tip	tip
sleeve	sleeve

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