{"id":1407,"date":"2003-09-18T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2010-03-15T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T09:55:06","slug":"keeping-off-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Keeping off the radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it was a mistake, but today I turned down doing a radio interview. Seems someone over in Western Australia had published an article on this most exciting topic: cleaning your hi fi. I had to ask for clarification from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation person who was trying to arrange the interview for some local &#8216;drive time&#8217; show: do you really mean <em>cleaning<\/em>, like scrubbing, a stereo? Yes, with Windex and alcohol, I was told.<\/p>\n<p>A million thoughts: first, I almost never clean my gear. Just the odd-dust off when it looks to be getting so thick that heat dissipation is being restricted. Second, every second manual I read has dire warnings about using benzene and so forth on the equipment. I thought I ought to mention that, then realised I don&#8217;t really know what benzene is. Then I thought, what if I say to use Windex and it discolours someone&#8217;s super-expensive piano-gloss speaker finish?<\/p>\n<p>So, no. Want to talk about the kinds of equipment to buy on a budget? Need expert advice on connecting up and configuring a stereo or home theatre system? Like to hear the pros and cons of DLP vs LCD projectors? Then I&#8217;m your man. But cleaning the damned stuff? No way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it was a mistake, but today I turned down doing a radio interview. Seems someone over in Western Australia had published an article on this most exciting topic: cleaning your hi fi. I had to ask for clarification from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1407\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}