Thanks! The manual is wrong!The Audio Engineering Society (AES) was founded in the US in 1948.
The AES standard for XLR pinout is:
Pin 1 - Ground
Pin 2 - Hot
Pin 3 - Cold
That is how virtually all microphones and professional gear is wired.
Whoever wrote that manual at Marantz must have been smoking something funny.
... Idem with (in side) my Esoteric K-01 with mode selection: XLR2 (pin 2 hot) or XLR3 (pin 3 hot) .....often Japanese components have the phase designed differently. Luxman, for example, has a switch on the rear panel to change the pin config (Phase Inverter).
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