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Do you excessively clean your rotors?
Good brakes rely on a build up of brake pad material to deposit itself onto the rotor, clean them too often and you remove this important deposit. I never clean my rotors - EVER, even if I wash my cassette and get the greasy over-spray on the rotor and I never have noisy or ineffective brakes.
Other than the efforts to STOP THE SQUEAL .. no, nothing .. I just leave them. In my head they're pretty much self cleaning - they have nice pad things being squashed against them and I'd hope they'd been designed to not need remedial maintenance every 3km's .. Maybe I should switch to a drum brakes ?
I think the bottom line is that due to the way some of the SRAM calipers work, they're far more susceptible to contaminants causing unpleasant sounds.
Just watched a new Ben Deakin Video and he obviously followed someone down who had ScReAM brakes.
Probably a good vid for @outerlimits as he starts with a helmet cam and switches to chest at the end.