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Cardas Caps on unused digital jacks?

I have used them on all of my unused analog RCA jacks. I have one pair of unused XLR jacks that I plan to buy Cardas Caps to cover.
But what about the digital jacks. I have not used caps on any of them. Should I be covering them too? How about the unused "video" jacks (all kinds) on the digital transport. It is the EAD t-7000 so it also plays LD's, which I don't do. The EAD drives my D to A via AT&T glass.

Opinions are appreciated.

Richard
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blueswan
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This is a very subtle tweak, but I beleive they offer an improvement. After covering all the unused jacks in my system with Cardas caps, I listened for several weeks. I then removed them all and noticed that the HF had a bit of an edge and the mids were a bit unfocused. I would recommend covering all the unused jacks, as this is a relatively inexpensive tweak.

As for unused XLRs, the same test yielded similar results, but the cost for Cardas XLR caps is several times the cost of RCA jacks.

Good luck!
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