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Treated my interconnects with Deoxit D5 today

I have a nice audio system and had a great notion to clean all my connections with alcohol and treat all the connections with Deoxit D5.  I did all the fuses as well.  Well, the result is that the system now sounds flat and lifeless as hell... way different than I previously heard.  What's up with this?  I am crestfallen...
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geoffkait
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When you did the fuses did you watch which direction you put them back in?
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sleepwalker65
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Teeheehee.  Fuse.... direction.... chuckle.... 
stevecham
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Ah, the smoking gun...

As with cables and electronics, you also need to burn in the deoxit. Just kidding. I have only had the opposite (good) result when using Caig's products on all contact surfaces.
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uberwaltz
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Honestly sounds like you may have inadvertently mixed up an interconnect or speaker cable when replacing them all.
Maybe give them all a double check and make sure all the pos and neg are correct, easy to do for sure.

Good luck
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dekay
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(+/-) speaker cables out of phase?

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