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AES66-2012: AES standard for professional audio equipment - Application of connectors - Miniature XLR-type polarity and gender
Printing Date:
2013-02-11
Publication History:
Pub. 2012
Abstract:
This standard is intended to apply to three- and five-pin circular connectors, commonly and generically known as miniature XLR-type, used for the balanced interconnection of all categories of sound system components for professional audio, commercial, recording, broadcast, and similar applications, regardless of function, type, or level of the signal. It specifies the application and polarity of analog signals for these connectors and is intended to avoid the inversion of absolute polarity among the items in the analog signal chain.
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