All jokes aside, what I would wonder is if putting the couple of ounces of plaster back in the box would cause the less clean sound to return.
If (as I suspect) it would not return, it would be an indication that something else was responsible for the perceived change. Perhaps even just having the system unpowered while the cleaning was performed, or just the effects on the contacts of removing and reinserting the power plug.
Which is not to say that anyone would or should bother doing that. But at the same time I would resist the temptation to attribute a perceived change to a seemingly implausible variable in the absence of methodology that is sufficiently thorough to rule out the possibility that something else may have been responsible.
Regards,
-- Al
If (as I suspect) it would not return, it would be an indication that something else was responsible for the perceived change. Perhaps even just having the system unpowered while the cleaning was performed, or just the effects on the contacts of removing and reinserting the power plug.
Which is not to say that anyone would or should bother doing that. But at the same time I would resist the temptation to attribute a perceived change to a seemingly implausible variable in the absence of methodology that is sufficiently thorough to rule out the possibility that something else may have been responsible.
Regards,
-- Al