Winterlord
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Hello all,
Yesterday I ran into a problem. It may be big, it may be small, I don't really know. However, it is a problem.
The thing is, that my Denon AH-C710s were beginning to have wax buildup on the tips, so I decided to take some cotton swabs and clean those tips. The foolish part is that I did this with the tips actually attached to the IEMs. The Denons are built in such a way that some kind of tight mesh protects the interior components of the IEM from dust and whatever. This mesh is located on the end of a little tube thing on which the tip is inserted.
Anyway, when I finished cleaning the IEMs I have noticed that their sound has become very muffled, and the right one was playing at a very low volume compared to the left one and I'm not really sure why.
It's important to note, that when I was cleaning the IEM, I was careful in a normal, reasonable way but not extremely careful. This leads me to think that maybe I somehow damaged that tight mesh and that altered the sound, or, I'm afraid to say, damaged the driver or resonance chamber. Another, more reasonable option is that maybe the cleaning motion jammed earwax into the mesh, so now it's cluttered and that's why the sound come out all muffled and in a different volume in each IEM.
So, does anyone have any experience with this type of thing? Can anyone help me restore my IEMs to their original state?
Yesterday I ran into a problem. It may be big, it may be small, I don't really know. However, it is a problem.
The thing is, that my Denon AH-C710s were beginning to have wax buildup on the tips, so I decided to take some cotton swabs and clean those tips. The foolish part is that I did this with the tips actually attached to the IEMs. The Denons are built in such a way that some kind of tight mesh protects the interior components of the IEM from dust and whatever. This mesh is located on the end of a little tube thing on which the tip is inserted.
Anyway, when I finished cleaning the IEMs I have noticed that their sound has become very muffled, and the right one was playing at a very low volume compared to the left one and I'm not really sure why.
It's important to note, that when I was cleaning the IEM, I was careful in a normal, reasonable way but not extremely careful. This leads me to think that maybe I somehow damaged that tight mesh and that altered the sound, or, I'm afraid to say, damaged the driver or resonance chamber. Another, more reasonable option is that maybe the cleaning motion jammed earwax into the mesh, so now it's cluttered and that's why the sound come out all muffled and in a different volume in each IEM.
So, does anyone have any experience with this type of thing? Can anyone help me restore my IEMs to their original state?