Big cleaning day

[TOGA]

According to AR.

1. They do not export it to dealers world wide yet, unless dealer order 30 or more cans. Problem is this is not allow to board the plane.
So they will ship large amount by sea to dealers. Lately Fedex allow air transport but I guess at big charge. Anyway I bought it from store in Japan and put it in my suitcase boarding the plane anyway. Paid $100 for it yike ! AR stressed that by volume, the Krypton nano liquid is more expensive.

2. For power contacts it will last 6 months due to heat, for signal contacts it will last a year, but not totally diminished. It takes many Years for the effect to become zero.

3. They stress that after apply, must polish the contact to clean , and must wait 24 hours to let it cured and get best result.

4. Oh and that special small cotton buds ( the used ones in pictures) are included. But I used all. It is too big for XLR female or ARC s female umbilical cords anyway, so I use alternate technic, by insert in and pull out a few times. The box in picture contain many cotton buds are US- made CAIG, bought separately.

5. Oyaide cleaning stick also needed, unless you can find alternative. Very effective in clean the blades inside IEC plugs.

I tell you again, the result after cleaning is highly positive, you may use what you can find locally like Caig , may be,
As long as you see that black stain on cotton buds after cleaning I am sure you will hear improvement.

Toga

[Masterlu]

And who said men don't clean.

[Don C]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

And who said men don't clean.

Ha!

A couple of years ago I tore everything apart and cleaned every IC connector and every socket with Caig, a stiff mascara brush (I found cotton swabs to not be the right tools for the job), and fine white cloth. The resultant crud removed from everything was suggestive of being way-overdue and the sonic results were self-evident. Since then, all un-used sockets get caps and any new gear/cables get some attention before being integrated into the system.

I did not treat the power connectors, but maybe that is the next project when the system is apart for changes!

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by Don C

Ha!

A couple of years ago I tore everything apart and cleaned every IC connector and every socket with Caig, a stiff mascara brush (I found cotton swabs to not be the right tools for the job), and fine white cloth. The resultant crud removed from everything was suggestive of being way-overdue and the sonic results were self-evident. Since then, all un-used sockets get caps and any new gear/cables get some attention before being integrated into the system.

I did not treat the power connectors, but maybe that is the next project when the system is apart for changes!

My wife calls me a "clean slob" because I'm meticulously neat, and clean only my things.

[JRSBat]

Originally Posted by Don C

Ha!

A couple of years ago I tore everything apart and cleaned every IC connector and every socket with Caig, a stiff mascara brush (I found cotton swabs to not be the right tools for the job), and fine white cloth. The resultant crud removed from everything was suggestive of being way-overdue and the sonic results were self-evident. Since then, all un-used sockets get caps and any new gear/cables get some attention before being integrated into the system.

I did not treat the power connectors, but maybe that is the next project when the system is apart for changes!

I used Caig DeOxit, DeOxit gold and various Caig brushes and swabs on all of my connectors a month or so ago. I also used up a large supply of regular long handle cotton swabs. I could not believe how black the cleaning swabs became - especially the ones used to clean the speaker binding posts. It took several swabs for each binding post before the black disappeared. The speakers were only 2 years old! You could hear a significant improvement even on my little system.

[Xuxa]

Shhhh....Really? Don't tell my other half. Not my job!

[rlw3]

audio servant needed for part time work.

[MtnHam]

I learned long ago that any cleaning you do on critical connections will have a very positive effect. It is less important what you use than how effective the job you do, based on simple logic. As Nike says, just do it, reasonable frequently. The results are impressive.