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Wait a Minute Do those Cardas Caps Work

I do a little tweaking of my own and can justify the application and expense, but my friend actually said that when he put the caps on the unused balanced and unbalanced inputs/ outputs he actually heard a difference. I have Jeff Rowland gear and will it really make a difference because those things aren't cheap ! Your thoughts Audiogoner's
garebear
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driver
746 posts
 
Neat looking audio jewelry. Great for keeping dog & cat hair out.
hepl
147 posts
 
If you want protection for unused female rca connectors at a
fraction of the cost go to a Linn dealer an order part number CONN-672. They are made of plastic and won't scratch
the gold plating, cost is around $0.15 each.
jdombrow
371 posts
 
If all you want to do is keep dust out, why not simply plug it with something (like a small piece of blu-tak over the end)?
rosstaman
455 posts
 
They look cool on my toy soldiers heads. Like an army of Woody Allens from Sleeper. But I don't notice any difference in the sound of my system.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Are we talking about shorting plugs, or just plain dust caps. Shorting plugs are a good idea, not so much when the input is unused as when you sequence through that input with your selector switch, and may hear bad noises from the open circuit.
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