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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   i like making diy speaker cable out of thickest solid cop ...   Gonglee3

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: Dekay
Ppridday:

I believe Cramolin to be the same as another product currently/recently available, but unfortunately I forgot the brand name. It might be one of the Caig products.

When I ran out of Cramolin I used electrician's alcohol for a while (not good for gold plate I'm told) and then used Kontak (gift from a friend) until I spilled the remainder of the bottle.

Now I'm back to using electrician's alcohol (MG Chemicals) and sometimes Flitz polish on nasty vintage contacts/plugs.

Overall I liked the Kontak best (cleaned better than alcohol and never gumbed up any tube sockets), but I'm too cheap to buy a bottle.

I have wondered if dry cleaning fluid might work well (the Kontak smelled like it (dry cleaning fluid) underneath the citrus scent.

Yes, unplugging and plugging works fine (just did it to everything going into the preamp this morning as I was too lazy to actually clean all of the connections). Took me less than half a minute.

Dekay  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)


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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