Best practices to clean the binding posts on your speakers and amps?

@speedysteve4 Not really! I buy used gear and after a thorough cleaning I give the terminals a spray and wipe with isopropyl alcohol. After that I don’t bother with further cleaning. I have not noticed any change in the sound years later.

Thanks Jason, I  thought so and my wife loves your movies!

I think isopropyl alcohol makes sense. I do remember many years ago, someone suggesting to simply pull the banana interconnects out of a speaker’s inputs and then plug them back in again. The same was suggested for cleaning the inputs and outputs on preamplifiers and power amplifiers.

I wish that I could remember who suggested this method of cleaning the inputs and  outputs of audio gear, but  it was many years ago. 

@jimmyblues1959 

many years ago, someone suggesting to simply pull the banana interconnects out of a speaker’s inputs and then plug them back in again

Back in the day, that was a common explanation for why cables sounded different.

Over the years, I have used both Caig Deoxit and Stabilant 22 ($).

Both clean well, and Stabilant 22 is a conductive polymer, so in theory, I have better conductance.

Good luck