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  What is your favorite low-tech tweek?
With all of this talk of expensive interconnects, the right plugs, etc., what have you done to your system that has been helpful but without shelling out tons of money?

In a differant thread I saw where I could use some foam insulation used for water pipes to wrap around my longer interconnects to keep them off the floor and seperated from other cables/wires. Also, I am using a pair of tall electrostatic speakers laying on their sides for audio. They are positioned at the base of my screen used in my home theatre. I didn't want the speakers flat on the hardwood floors, so I am using a couple month's supply of wine corks beneath the speakers for seperation. Finally, I got a bit tired looking at the cheap two-wire power cord that came with my Cd player and I re-wired a much better computer cord to a two-pronged plug and I do believe I have better results. That, or I should have made the best use of what the wine corks were designed to do stop with the crazy creative tinkering. So, what have you done along these lines?
Unclejeff  (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

06-17-03
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06-17-03   Abstinence. don't listen to your system for a week. stay o ...   Ultrakaz

06-17-03   Jonathan scull's best tip (maybe his one and only good tip): ...   Drubin

06-18-03   Bag of sand or lead shot on top of cd players. vibrapods un ...   Sugarbrie

06-18-03   Clean all your connectors the next time you tidy up the soun ...   Albertporter

06-18-03   Turn off the lights. your auditory senses become more acut ...   Rsbeck

06-18-03   Agree with sugarbrie, plus add to you speakers to really coi ...   Bigkidz

06-18-03   Hockey pucks for resonance damping under components (about a ...   Dopogue

06-18-03   I agree with dopogue on the hockey pucks. i use them under p ...   Woodman

06-18-03   An acme audio ac outlet for my amp. easy winner here @ $40. ...   Rhyno

06-18-03   Getting rip-shit drunk whilst listening.   Lazarus28

06-18-03   Placing kids to bed.   Marakanetz

06-18-03   Spiking monitor speakers on top of the stands. immediate be ...   Jfacker

06-18-03   I should list most of my tweaks as it's difficult to determi ...   Stehno

06-18-03   Its been beaten to death, but i really like what the ikea la ...   Ohlala

06-18-03   Q-tips!   Clingman71

06-18-03   Cheapest? superballs. either in vibrapods or cut in half. i ...   Bluenose

06-19-03   Black hole pad vibration damping material. works on transfo ...   Kana813

06-19-03   Get your power cords away from your interconnects.   Darrylhifi

06-19-03   Hey darryl, a while ago i helped a friend unravel 20+ years ...   Unclejeff

06-19-03   Right on uncle jeff ! its so simple, yet so effective. i had ...   Darrylhifi

06-21-03   Hey albert, i got myself some ultra connect and used it on m ...   Unclejeff

06-22-03   Just a quick question regarding separating wires. is it nec ...   Mhu

06-23-03   Good question, mhu. i have found divergent opinions on this ...   Unclejeff

06-24-03   Mhu does ask a good question . as uncle jeff states , for a ...   Darrylhifi

06-24-03   Tighten the screws holding the baffles of the speakers as we ...   Lrm1jaf

06-25-03   A month ago i bought some stillpoint ers material from a loc ...   Hawaiikid

06-26-03   Hey h-kid, can you enlighten us a bit on the ers material. ...   Unclejeff

06-28-03   Hi unclejeff, the "ers material" is made out of gr ...   Hawaiikid

06-28-03   Getting my wife and son out of the house. the system always ...   Jm88439

09-01-03   i like to put my speakers near my bed (but not too close) ...   Gonglee3

09-01-03   clean your ear out with a wax removing liquid from any dr ...   Gonglee3

09-01-03: Gonglee3
I like making DIY speaker cable out of thickest solid copper wire you can find, and combining with strands to get the best of both worlds. You can also add silver wire to it if you like. I love the sound of the silver for liquid and transparent characteristics. Since you can fine tune the sound by combining different amount, it's fun and economical.
Gonglee3  (System | Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread)


09-01-03   My favorite low-tech tweek is one i made myself. a year ago ...   Jejaudio

09-11-03   Hey jejaudio; interesting. i think i need to read your sug ...   Unclejeff

09-11-03   Mod the stock power cord for the cd or dvd player. first i c ...   Iseekheils

09-24-03   1. get your ears cleaned anually by your doctor. 2. replace ...   Shasta

09-24-03   To quote homer j. simpson :"beeeeer"   Slipknot1

09-25-03   Clean your connections, as per albert porter above, includin ...   Crp

09-25-03   Charlie, good tip on the groundrod cleaning. i try to keep a ...   Slipknot1

09-27-03   Ground rod protection / cleaning: i spray the connection wit ...   Dalekroberts

10-04-03   I used to clean my connections regularly with a product call ...   Ppridday

10-04-03   How about some pufffff...??   Marakanetz

10-04-03   Ppridday: i believe cramolin to be the same as another prod ...   Dekay

10-05-03   Cramolin was the pre-cursor to de-oxit and progold; all by c ...   Shasta

10-06-03   Diy polyline record sleeves -- very simple! having a number ...   Marakanetz

10-26-03   Mine is the same as a post made previously.i bought 2 semi s ...   Route9

11-02-12   Speaker placement   Mapman

11-02-12   Holy thread resurrection, mapman !!!!!   Tpreaves

11-03-12   Establish absolute level of the cd transport.   Geoffkait


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