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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
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eldartford
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sean...FWIW..my Tandberg preamp came with shorting plugs for the MM and the MC inputs (not high R values). However this preamp has completely separate phono stages for the two inputs (all the circuitry is duplicated) so there really is no chance of crosstalk.
eldartford
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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.
eldartford
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sean...My point (FWIW) is that what Tandberg provided for their preamp was a dead short. Perhaps they knew this was OK for their particular circuit. What you say about other circuits being prone to oscillation may be true, although I have not seen such a problem with stuff I have used.
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