Vladimir said:
ESD is an issue with ICs. A brush is not recommended for cleaning amps with digital preamps or digital volume attenuation without them being grounded. You can put a discrete circuit in the dishwasher and it wont have issues when it dries off (best way to clean amps owned by smokers).
Small trivia. When you walk on your carpet, by brushing your feet you develop several thousands of volts electrostatic charge. Good thing it's very very few amperes, it can't hurt you. But discharge those kilovolts in an integrated chip and RIP Mr. IC.
Thanks Vlad, interesting as always!
I have been trying to think of a way to reduce the amount of dust getting into the k2bt when it arrives, as it has quite a few air vents, whereas the rega had none. I think I'm a bit of a worried when it cones to dust as I had my brio r sent back to rega as the back plate wasn't a perfect fit and I was worried that it was going to let dust in. Rega changed the back plate for me which was great. But my audio gear is in my bedroom and it does get dusty quickly. I'm thinking of trying to makeshift some kind of dust cover to go over the amp. With maybe a gap of 2-3cm between the cover and the amp to ensure air stiil gets in to cool, but hopefully reduce the amount of dust getting in. Do you think this might suffocate the amp..ie: be too close fitting and therefore not allow enough air in to cool? Or any other suggestions anyone?