Silclear, xTreme Quicksilver or Walker SST ?
I've continued to rely on the Walker Audio SST. (I do use the Extreme SST version, and find it makes a nice improvement over the regular SST, but your comments about price are well noted.) This week I removed some tubes on which I'd treated the pins with SST four years ago. The SST had dried as it is designed to do, had not migrated, and cleaned off easily with isopropyl alcohol revealing bright shiny metal underneath. Still highly recommended here. . |
I use the Gold xTreme. In my system, I can tell a difference from the silver. I think they just started selling a smaller kit, so you can save some money. I used to think it was "nuts" to clean my ac contacts, but then I tried it and heard a difference. Just say I'm way less cynical about tweaks than I used to be. Some of what I thought were tweaks 10 years ago are now things I wouldn't even consider doing without, now. Certainly nothing personal: you've raised a good question, but some people say, about any subject: if you haven't heard it, (ridden it, drove it, tried it on, shot it: from motorcycles, cars, clothes to shotguns) them you don't have an opinion, just a conclusion lacking support: I'll just go so far as to say that any audible improvement for less than $100 is a steal in this hobby. Just keep an open mind. Sometimes a tweak is a difference, but not an improvement. Some of the reviewers were sceptical at first, and some people have thought that the metal content of eTreme and Walker made a change that they could hear, but didn't like, and went back to naked, but clean, contacts. I couldn't hear a difference in Walker and Extreme, and the pro Gold is a good cleaner. I've never heard the Siltech. |
