Russr
Well-known member
Is your obsession kicking in about the washing, or the fact that wine/chemicals were involved...?That's my gut feeling too, but if washed with just distilled water it might be close to how it was before. I don't believe it would ever be the same though. I'm a little bit obsessive, and it would really bother me.
Reason I ask, is when I'd had my first MLs (Pair of Aerius I bought 2nd hand in ~2000) a couple of years, one developed an occasional "ticking"... Ron @ ML told me to shower with the panels and rinse them with distilled water (at the same time, he shipped me a set of replacement binding posts (the Hex-shaped gold ones) 'cos I'd over-torqued one with a socket wrench!) He was pretty adament it would not affect the audio quality in any way, except perhaps Improve things (back in the 90's a lot more people smoked, even in demo rooms, etc.). He was right!