[zlayde]

This is frustrating and not sure how to solve for it without doing damage my u12t. I've got some ear wax wedged in the mesh. Not a ton but these things sound so amazing and I fear it's starting to impact the experience.

Apologies for the slightly gross image. Thoughts on how to fix/clean it? is there a tool I can use? I tried using the brush tool and it only pushed them in further.

 

[snuggleton]

Maybe I have extraordinarily waxy ears, but I find occasionally cleaning earwax out of the mesh on earbuds/IEM’s to be a fact of life.

• What you want to use is peroxide.
• This is usually not the case, but it’s really lovely when the mesh is removable. You can just pop it out with a sewing needle, soak it in the peroxide for a bit, wipe it off, and put it back in.
• Otherwise, you can dab a tissue or cloth with the peroxide and then gently rub/blot the mesh, being sure to hold everything so that the liquid won’t run into the interior of the piece.
• If you want to be thorough, you can fill the bottom of a bottlecap/contact lens case/etc. with peroxide and then perch the piece so that the mesh is just barely submerged, let it soak for a little bit, then wipe it off.

 

[zlayde]

And this is safe for the electronics/internals?

 

[snuggleton]

It is, in the sense that it’s pretty easy to avoid getting the electronics wet. What I can tell you in the way of reassurance is that I’ve cleaned out several different models this way over many years and I haven’t damaged anything.