Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

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Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by deadair » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:43 am

so after a few years, my monitors have assembled a nice little collection of dust on the cones, whats the best way to deal with this? bottled air shit? paper towel (seems sketchy)?, play some bumpin bass though them for a few hours? give me a hand here folks! thanks.

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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by vvv » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:19 pm

A soft feather duster, but be careful!
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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by 8th_note » Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:22 pm

If you're careful you should be able to use your vacuum cleaner with the soft brush attachment without hurting anything.


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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by MASSIVE Mastering » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:19 pm

I use a small, VERY light duster that resembles 6" very fine nylon fibers (I guess that's because it IS 6" very fine nylon fibers...)

You spin it a few times between your palms and dust pretty much "jumps" on it due to the static. A very light pass over the cones, then it's outside to spin it clean.
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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by I'm Painting Again » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:27 pm

drumsound wrote:Swiffer Duster
hell yes! swiffer makes the most badass products..

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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by vvv » Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:46 am

Yeah, but can ya use it on your lover, like you can a feather duster?

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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by rob@SigmaDelta » Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:16 am

swiffer duster is what I use for everything except pcbs hah :)
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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by deadair » Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:24 pm

sound slike i gotta get a swiffer duster. thanks dudes!

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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by deadair » Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:56 pm

just to update i will say that the swiffer duster is ass kicking for all sorts of dusting in the studio. thanks dudes. i'd have never known.

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Re: Cleaning (dusting) Your Monitors (speakers)???

Post by Piotr » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:16 pm

Would it piss you off if I used my shop vac with its soft attachment? That works great without fucking things up...
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