HI Everybody
I live in Kuwait (In Arabian desert, for those who never heard the name) since many years, and I bought two ML Monolith iii speakers from someone who admitted to have neglected cleaning their electrostatic panels from dirt for over 10 years.
The sound of the speakers had no hissing evolving but all high and mid range sounds were not open as I was expecting, so I decided to clean them.
When I finished using the vacuum cleaner to extract as much as possible of dust, I tried to rub the outer metallic fence with a pair of soft antistatic gloves, to discover black sticky stains all over the gloves. Moreover I inserted very carefully and for two consecutive days, some high quality cotton buds into the tiny holes over different locations of the panel, to find that they were all covered with an awful black dirt on their tips.
This exercise with the ear buds would necessitate probably more than a month to finish the two speakers, which I am sure to fail doing it so I'm desperate to know whether it is technically possible and acceptable to open the panels in order to clean the plastic film inside.
Hoping someone would have had this problem to deal with.. Thanks
I live in Kuwait (In Arabian desert, for those who never heard the name) since many years, and I bought two ML Monolith iii speakers from someone who admitted to have neglected cleaning their electrostatic panels from dirt for over 10 years.
The sound of the speakers had no hissing evolving but all high and mid range sounds were not open as I was expecting, so I decided to clean them.
When I finished using the vacuum cleaner to extract as much as possible of dust, I tried to rub the outer metallic fence with a pair of soft antistatic gloves, to discover black sticky stains all over the gloves. Moreover I inserted very carefully and for two consecutive days, some high quality cotton buds into the tiny holes over different locations of the panel, to find that they were all covered with an awful black dirt on their tips.
This exercise with the ear buds would necessitate probably more than a month to finish the two speakers, which I am sure to fail doing it so I'm desperate to know whether it is technically possible and acceptable to open the panels in order to clean the plastic film inside.
Hoping someone would have had this problem to deal with.. Thanks
