For SE seems correct. For balanced? Would be more rugged. Also if someone has rhodium tips they would last longer - does anyone make those?Take it from someone who's worked in radio stations for nearly 3 decades, headphone jacks DO wear out. But it takes a LOT of plug/unplug cycles to do it. In radio stations, where different air-staffers plug and unplug headphones many dozens of times per day, headphone jacks last anywhere from a year or two to (max) about five or six years (in my experience). But replacing them is no big deal for someone not afraid of a soldering iron. If that doesn't describe you, any half-decent technician can do it for you.
In a home setup, with headphones not plugged/unplugged more than once or twice a day, you may well NEVER wear out your headphone jack. And there is very possibly a benefit to plugging/unplugging fairly often...it scrapes off any oxidation which may build up on electrical contacts. In fact, it's a good idea to unplug and re-plug ALL of your audio components a couple of times per year, rocking the plug back and forth in the jack a little bit, and rotating it as you remove, and insert. There are commercially available products with which to treat your plugs/jacks to prevent oxidation. Clean contacts are happy contacts
Last... If you happen to have a VPI HW-17F nearby after a cleaning Last goes on pretty well. With a carbon brush - no.BenG: I'm just a little suspicious, when people talk about these kinds of "wonder fluids"... Do you happen to remember Last, a vinyl conditioner? I once bought that (for quite a lot of money...), tried it on two lps - and finally got a lot of crackling and popping on both. Also, some people like these contact sprays, even for repairing scratchy pots. But usually, once they tried that, they find out, that it only helps for a few months - and the scratichness is even worse after.
Maybe we have to consider some more factors, though: Local climate (moist or dry...) might make some difference - and temperature, too. So somebody in Jacksonville might see/hear an improvement with such a contact conditioner, whereas somebody else in Denver might not notice anything. Bavaria is much more Colorado-like than Florida-like, by the way...
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Manfred / lini
Man you got out your shovel, wheel barrel and flashlights. Then put on your boots, jeans, safety helmet, gloves and proceeded to go all necrophilia on a thread from 2001!
Yeah! I tried hitting back 1 page but must of hit <<. Well maybe someone will get some use from it - like you!
