Capped off?

How about those nice looking XLR caps in both males and females selling at Amazon? Anyone has tried those yet? They really look cool. 

The new stuff like a Mcintosh C2500. there is no long runs of wire because its not point to point. Its all pretty much logic board, with really short runs, and RCAs and XLRs are soldered directly to the board.

The "Shorting plugs" on Point to Point, Night and Day. You better, hook inside, to the outside of the RCA. Talk about clean it up. They are normally nickel, new stuff is gold. You can change that though, for the tweak guys.. I clean the heck out of the connections, with steel wool on a spinner, then, I treat them too.

I use gold "CAPS" on my new stuff just for looks. It has NO purpose other than to keep the dust OUT, cover the RCA, and look good.

PPT I thought it was Pin Point/point to point Termination, PPT caps, inside to outside.

XLRs? Flipper caps, they do get dusty inside..without covers, though.

Regards

Great info, thanks.

A bit confused...

I made "shorting" plugs years ago for unused RCA inputs on a couple of phono preamplifiers.

I wired a small resistor from the RCA's center post to the RCA's outer band (as I was instructed to do).

Forget the value, but it was small.

There was a marked sonic improvement, though the (2) preamps were inexpensive battery powered stereo units that I ran as dual mono's for stereo (simple way of beefing up the power/battery supply).

DeKay

I bought a bunch of no name RCA caps and also caps for my unused XLR ins and outs on eBay. At the very least, it keeps the unused inputs and outputs clean. Never heard a difference although my systems are dead quiet to begin with.