That and the Inakustik cable helped bring some forwardness back. As well as add weight and clarity. I was on the phone with a friend. He just got new speaker cable and was putting them in. I dug mine out and put them in too. Very happy.Glad you got it sorted out! That DeOxit must have some serious MoJo.
I use Inakustik interconnects (the silver air reference ones) and digital cable (XLR copper air reference). I don't have their speaker cables but I can imagine that they are very good.
I use those new-fangled Magic Erasers either wiping the pins or inserting the pins repeatedly. Use Kontak as a lubricant, wipe off, let evaporate and then I wipe with Jena Labs contact enhancer leaving a microscopic film on the pins.
Deoxit D100 and G100. Use a Qtip on the pins. Start with D. Clean and let sit for an hour. Then clean with G.
This puts me off the G100
I doubt they even clean wire before soldering. When my Blade was made, Scott said he polished every wire before soldering.
Whats Classic? Whats the center driver? Voxativ. PAP use to tour with Whammerdyne. A 2A3. Or Pass Labs with 250 watts. Now using a class D with 150 watts.
My PAPs have the Standard Voxativ center drivers. I have used everything from 300 watt GaN FET to 3 watts 2A3 with a personal 45 being built. In MY ROOM, I much prefer the lower power tube amps.
I like tubes on them too. SS sounds flatt to me. Every time I play the PAP, I am surprised how well.they play. I like them as much as any speaker have heard. I do want to try a swarm of subs one day. Pressurize the room. For musical flow and natural sound, PAP play excellent.
What PAPs do you have? What are you powering them with? I found I do not need a sub. The base is deep and tight. This is the main speaker used to evaluate all our products.
Deoxit D series. Works best in the spray can; stay away from the non-spray versions. Tube sockets can be contaminated by the carriers used in non-spray contact cleaners- resulting in loss of bandwidth and worse (such as arcing). If that happens the only solution is to replace the socket.
This sounds really sketchy. Anything that leaves a film on the tube contacts is a risk of contaminating the socket as the film can leach across the socket dielectric. I've seen this happen and its not pretty. Do this to multiple sockets in your amp or preamp and you could have a major service nightmare if the 'enhancer' is able to contaminate the socket (it can contaminate connectors in the same way). I've seen contact enhancers contaminate circuit boards, requiring their replacement along with all the parts on it. That started with just application to the pins of the tubes.
FWIW Dept.: if you have to polish the wire the only thing I can think of is its corroded. If you have oxygen free copper and if you use a good quality solder with a good solder flux, this simply isn't necessary as that is literally the job of the flux.
