Contact cleaner

[Stranraer]

Evening all. Not saying I was bored today but I spent twenty minutes cleaning the speaker cable connectors with contact cleaner, and did the same with the inside of the speaker terminals using a Qtip.
It's made a noticable diffference to the sound. Anyone else tried this ?

[Barry]

Simply unplugging and remating the connectors can often make the same improvement.

[Gazjam]

Evening all. Not saying I was bored today but I spent twenty minutes cleaning the speaker cable connectors with contact cleaner, and did the same with the inside of the speaker terminals using a Qtip.
It's made a noticable diffference to the sound. Anyone else tried this ?

Yup,
I use Deoxit Gold on all my connections, noticable difference in sound with my gear.

Good hifi hygene, worth doing.

[Stranraer]

Yup,
I use Deoxit Gold on all my connections, noticable difference in sound with my gear.

Good hifi hygene, worth doing.

It'll be a pain in the backside getting round behind the hifi to get to the interconnects.
Any thoughts on whether it would make a significant difference ?

[Macca]

It'll be a pain in the backside getting round behind the hifi to get to the interconnects.
Any thoughts on whether it would make a significant difference ?

only if they're really soiled.

I cleaned mine a few years back now, never been done before. I was expecting plugs and sockets to be filthy. But there was not a trace of dirt on the cotton bud, not the slightest blemish.

Not sure I would bother if it's a major pain to access them.

[Stranraer]

Just what I wanted to hear, ta.
Maybe a few more weeks of gloomy, cold weather will inspire me to try but I'd rather drink wine and play some tunes frankly.
If it does improve things should I keep it to myself ?

[Barry]

In my case it is a total pain to pull out all the source gear, even to change connections, let alone to mess about with Q-tips. Fortunately all the sockets are gold plated, as are the pins of the plugs.

[Pigmy Pony]

Just what I wanted to hear, ta.
Maybe a few more weeks of gloomy, cold weather will inspire me to try but I'd rather drink wine and play some tunes frankly.
If it does improve things should I keep it to myself ?

Not at all. If you hear an improvement then it's worthwhile. Then folk are free to try it for themselves. Or not. If you were trying to tell people a five thousand quid fuse would transform their listening that would be different.

[Barry]

Not at all. If you hear an improvement then it's worthwhile. Then folk are free to try it for themselves. Or not. If you were trying to tell people a five thousand quid fuse would transform their listening that would be different.

But what if cleaning the end caps of the fuse and the corresponding contacts of the fuse holder made a difference?

[walpurgis]

Especially if the fuse polarity is correct .