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How often do you clean your connections?

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I am wondering how often you tear your system down and clean your connections, terminals, etc.?

I will admit that it has been 2 years since I have done this type of maintenance and am sure my system will benefit from it. I actually need to unhook everything, clean the connections and clean my rack. It looks terrible with dust and crud. I am ashamed.:sigh:

I know a lot of you change out your systems regularly, so cleaning terminals, etc. is probably done often.

This is my project to work in to my schedule this week. Actually my whole listening room can use some attention. Geesh it's a mess.
 
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seems to be yearly for me.

However, weather is not too hard on my connections with heat/ac going.

I just like the piece of mind.

Evan
 
I try to do it right the first time, that way I can slack off for a longer while before going back at it.

Firstly, I use some deoxit or even lightly use WD40 depending on the connection, to ward off oxidation. I then dust inside and outside as much as possible.

My bedroom system gets very dusty, so regular dusting is necessary.
 
On the main gear in the living room, I take it all apart, open everything and do a complete DeOxit about once every 1 to 2 years.

Other gear gets cleaned as I get to it or when I feel like it, and since most of my "other gear" is less than two years old and is played infrequently/periodically, most of it hasn't been thoroughly cleaned again since the first time. (I don't think it needs it yet.) I will sometimes clean jacks that I'm about to hook cables too, though, so the most commonly-used connections get cleaned more often than seldom-used or never-used ones. Otherwise, my priority is to re-do gear that needs more serious work and is waiting patiently in the "projects piles". I'll never completely catch up until/unless I put a halt to acquiring new gear (or slow the rate way down!). I've moved in that direction already, but still too many projects left, because I take my time (i.e., take too long) with the repair process, using it as a meditation-like means to relax rather than as a task to be pushed through.

Since you have noticed the dust and thought about it (and posted about it!) make time to go in and clean that system. Afterwards you'll feel better that you did it... and it might even sound better, too! :D
 
Never.
It's the best system I've heard anywhere in 30 years.No mains conditioning,no record cleaning,no fancy powercables just stock,no room treatment,the crudest large gauge cables for the speakers,a couple of modest van den hul cabon fibre interconnects from turntable to phono pre and from phono pre to preamp,the other cabling from preamp to active crossover and from active crossover to poweramps is bog standard non audiophile.
The tweeks are in the form of a mag-lev SAP Relaxa 3+ stand atop of diy rollerball platform which carries my Yamaha PX-2 turntable.
The system eats $100,000 systems for lunch.
No audiophile angst just the most engaging,detailed,satisfying,honest sound.
Blows away SACD,DVD-A and CD(been there,tried that).
For the first time in my life,reading the magazine reviews is boring. :boring:
 
Going to try to do this every winter my system is pretty static but so far I have done enough stuff during my winter down times. dust is a problem so this next winter those units with open grills will be getting some type of air filter.
 
I cleaned the connections on the tuner and on the amplifier because anything I buy second-hand gets scrubbed top to bottom.
I've never cleaned the connections on anything else because I bought them new.
Tom
 
Like the above posts, I'll clean used gear when I get it home. A little q-tip load of deoxit or some other smegma around the rca jacks. Then I spritz an RCA plug and insert it into all the jacks, twisting around each one. It's kind of erotic.
 
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