Taking care of lacquer wood finishes

I use only eyeglass or camera lens cleaning cloths, I did use baby diapers at one time. Use differant cloths for cleaning and polishing. I use 2 clothes for cleaning and 1 for polishing. I use the cleaner for flat screen TV's not windex. I totally wet the area down then take the first cloth and wipe only in one direction to get most of the cleaner off. I then take the second cloth and wipe only in the opposite direction. Never scrub the surface. If still dirty repeat. Only wipe down your speakers with a liquid on them even just water as dust has 8 cutting edges I heard. I then spray on an item called Plexus used for plexiglass and polish them as lightly as possible. You must polish immediately after cleaning each spreaker. Plexus will also fill small swirl scratches and protect them from happening.
I also ask people that come over to my house to please not touch the speakers as finger prints are worse than dust to get off.
IMHO.

BTW I would not be so sure that it is a TRUE lacquer finish as it could be just a high gloss clear coat.

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacquer you will see that Lacquer these days is a loosely used term for differant types mixed finishes.

Yes it does matter if it is solvent or water. I think it is the same for Lacquar as it is for regular paints, you can put waterbase over oilbase but not the other way around. So water over solvent should be okay.
IMHO.

The true Lacquer finish I am talking about has to do with solid color finishes. I consider a true solid color Lacquer finish as one that has the color pigment throughout. Lots can go wrong and is very expensive. Not one that the base is painted the required color then clear coated.
As in my previous reply Lacquers are not all the same.

There is no way to know the kind of finish you have untill you have to repair them. The thickness of the finish is very very thin no matter how it is done so do not worry about it and don't bang them. As for the swirls, everyone gets them over time there is no way to avoid them. They show more on solid colors than on wood grain but they are still there. I have had both solid and woood finish and both get the dreaded swirls sooner or later. As I stated earlier never dust them off without a liquid to minimize scratches.