cleaning input jacks

[Tommi]

Hi guys, just wondering, how do you clean your channel inputs?

I was recently cleaning my setup, and tried a vacuum cleaner to clean my
headphone output jack. Then I forgot about it, and today I noticed that the
high-frequency response through headphones is now a bit clearer!
And I wasn't listening intensively *IF* I could hear a difference, I just
plain noticed it, didn't even remember I had cleaned it.

Are there any drawbacks in vacuum cleaning input/output jacks?
Is there any "correct" way of doing it?

[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> Hi guys, just wondering, how do you clean your channel inputs?

A better mic preamp.

> Are there any drawbacks in vacuum cleaning input/output jacks?
> Is there any "correct" way of doing it?

Actualy that's a pretty good way to clean jacks, assuming that you can
get enough suction into the hole. Blowing them off with clean dry
compressed air (the cans you can buy in computer and photo stores
works well) is good too, except that if things are really cruddy, it
blows the crud in to the box (where it can contaminate other things)
rather than sucking it out.

There are several liquid contact cleaners that work well also.


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[umbriaco]

in article , Tommi at
wrote on 12/19/03 10:35 AM:

> Hi guys, just wondering, how do you clean your channel inputs?
>
> I was recently cleaning my setup, and tried a vacuum cleaner to clean my
> headphone output jack. Then I forgot about it, and today I noticed that the
> high-frequency response through headphones is now a bit clearer!
> And I wasn't listening intensively *IF* I could hear a difference, I just
> plain noticed it, didn't even remember I had cleaned it.
>
> Are there any drawbacks in vacuum cleaning input/output jacks?
> Is there any "correct" way of doing it?

Insert a clean plug, twist the plug, remove, clean the plug, repeat.