Originally Posted by
Wagner
I am NOT suggesting that simplifying a signal path, any signal path isn't a "good" thing.............BUT, if the OP's switch looked like yours it is no wonder removing or by-passing them yielded an improvement in sound quality
I have a hard time believing that anyone owning a pair of speakers this nice would run them with a switch so heavily corroded; and DeOxit isn't going to clean up shit like that, not in a million years
That's 35+ years of crap on those contacts, what would you expect?! They've a layer of oxidation so thick it's a solid now and it's black!
Pain in the ass to service properly after all of these DECADES? Yes, can take hours to perform properly (I have to deal with them often with my ancient tube equipment, exactly the same switches) but extremely poor sonics blamed on the switch per se being used in that current state?
Hardly fair to blame the switch, proper, for that one; blame the real guilty party, Mother Nature
Exactly the same as the bad rap suffered by the old Aetna-Pollak controls; properly serviced, you'd never know they were there
Has anyone tried actually servicing one of these switches for the sake of comparison? (squirting a little contact enhancer doesn't count)