7
Connecting your equipment
Chord amplifiers are supplied with and designed to be connected using balanced inputs. The
interconnecting cables you use will depend on the available input and output sockets on your other
equipment. We have installed unbalanced inputs on all Chord equipment, thus enabling you to mix Chord
Electronics and other manufacturer’s equipment.
Balanced inputs carry twice the strength of signal of unbalanced inputs and are able to be fed down long
lengths of cable with less deterioration of signal. They are also less prone to interference than unbalanced
inputs. Balanced inputs have three pins and use Neutric XLR style connectors. Pin 1 is earth, pin 2 is
positive and pin 3 is negative.
Unbalanced inputs use RCA phono connectors, which are gold plated with teflon high performance
dielectric insulators for optimum performance.
