What solution to clean silver and gold contacts?


Hello!

          I am looking for a product to use to clean contacts in my audio system. Contacts are mostly gold plated, but some of them are pure silver on pure silver.
         I do not want anything that leaves any kind of residue / contact enhancement product. I read on forums that some members claim these products improve the sound at first, but later degrade it. So in the end, they removed all of the contact enhancement product from the actual contact.
         Right now I am mostly leaning towards using pure ethanol alcohol, as I think all of it would evaporate.
         Thanks in advance for all of your advices.
audiobb

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Thank you all.
It seems that everyone agree that tarnish layer is silver sulfide, that does reduce conductivity, and therefore can affect the sound.
I prefer to clean it with something that does not leave any layer behind.
Would alcohol remove the silver sulfide?
Or at least, clean the contact from the dust safely?
What can remove it, without leaving anything behind?
ljgerens, are you sure that silver sulfide can form in minutes?