We eventually may use them as a cloth to protect the system from dust when not in use. Every night? Nah. I’m too lazy. Each time for work or vacation I’ll be away, sounds more realistic.
Dust remains also when we listen to music I know, but I have to justify in some way the money I spent for these caps, isn’t it?
Next upgrade? A machine to purify the air in the room able to eliminate dust! Dust is the public enemy in my opinion as vinyl lover, sorry if I’m overly biased.
Coincidentally, I just ordered 10 of these for RCA inputs from Acoustic Sounds.
I fully expect them to have an incremental, beneficial impact or to have no discernible impact. Time will tell.
I might be interested in your cast offs if you decide to sell them.
Cheers.
[Edit: On second thought, I forgot you are on the other side of the pond. Shipping will be cost prohibitive. 
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I remember the good old vinyl days. I donated and gave away my modest collection of a thousand records long ago and sold my analog gears. I regret it occasionally. But my wife told me it is the best thing I did. The room looks a lot cleaner nowadays.
Records outperform CDs and streaming music in my opinion. From SQ side to engagement and emotional side.
Before pandemic I was a music lover nostalgic, it means that I used to listen to music in my car explaining to my son that when I was young the right way to “feel” the music was in an appropriate room with an appropriate system, mainly from a turntable.
He asked me what a turntable was. What?!
Then something happened. One day the world suddenly stopped all at once.
During the terrible lockdown (I’m from Bergamo in Italy, the little city that first felt under Covid) we started to listen to music together in our basement. Daytime and nighttime, week after week, fighting against the fear of death with rock of 70’ and grunge of 90’. We started with albums cult, hours by hours, discussing about the music history, always together until the last track of each vinyl we were ordering online from home. The collection went growing and growing, our passion too.
Looking at covers on our hands while listening to Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Patty Smith, Neil Young, Dire Straits, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins…
Music saved our mental health probably, or drove us totally crazy, it depends.
Now we have more than 2k records and 1k CDs. We have all listened to from the beginning to the end. My 20 years old son Paolo (Paul) has learnt to play guitar and owns 2 acoustic guitars and 1 Stratocaster and 1 Les Paul. We still stay all night long listening to music 1 or 2 days a week (he has better companies of course to waste his time with but if music is the subject he still prefers his father ears and opinions).
Music is magic. Period. And now you know why vinyl is music in this little hole of the world, almost for my son and me.
Thank you for your very touching story and I am very happy for you! My family are getting closer as well and that may be the only good thing coming out of Covid19.
I am in an agreement with you that analog sound is more emotional involving. But on the other hand, I probably saved a lot of money from not owning it anymore; now that I jumped back into the rabbit hole again.
That’s a wonderful story Luca, thanks for sharing that. Music had the same effect on my wife and I through the lockdown phase of the pandemic. In our case, we already had thousands of cd’s and vinyl records but we still kept discovering more new music to immerse ourselves in. I think the experience of being more emotionally and intellectually involved with music during the last couple of years has made me less interested in the equipment. On the other hand, my wife has gotten considerably more interested in the equipment side of audiophilia.
Equipment is the means, the music the end. Our loved ones the most precious asset. We should remember this lesson for a long long time.
And one day your son is telling his child how he and grandpa would sit around and listen to music all night long…
Couldn’t be happier!