Cardas Machined RCA Caps.???

Someone wrote in the AA forum that you can test your system by putting Al foil caps on your un-used inputs / output.

If you notice a difference you can decide if you want to spend the money for nice looking caps.

Nik

I started with these when I was experiencing a problem with my phone pre amp. They may have cut down on the RF noise but I won't swear to it. I will say that the other two benefits are (one) no dust can get in the jack and (two) they look so cool! Small investment and decent returns, it's a tweak, tweaks are more than not, a waste of money, but fun.

I bought a very attractive set of these in August from Music Direct. I even paid a little more to get the cute little nautilus shell on the face. My application at the time was for a new Ayre AX-7 integrated I had just received. I thought that the caps and the adjacent Cardas speaker connectors would look like a matched set. Unfortunately, the Cardas caps were so loose on the RCAs they fell off without even touching them. I called Ayre about this and they informed me that there was no such thing as a standard size of RCA terminal and that this loose condition was a possibility. They did offer to put a different type RCA connector on the integrated that would accomodate the caps but I saw the whole thing as a worthless exercise in system downtime. The caps are in a drawer collecting dust now.