My favorite low-tech tweek is one I made myself. A year ago In my quest to find a cheap isolation device that uses ball bearings. I went to the hardware store. Strolling down the plumbing aisle there it was. The 0.88 cents device that would have me sell or give away all my points,pucks, cones and air-bladder tweeks. A simple Sillcock Handle(round). This is the soild Aluminum out side faucet handle. Combine this with 1\2 round chromium steel balls grade 25 and you have a device that might be cheap tweek of the year. That's 7 balls per handle 6 under the faucet handle. This makes it roll. Then one on top in the circle hole in the middle of the faucet handle. This one ball is the one that will be touching your unit. I use 3 faucet handles per device. That's 21 balls per units. The 1\2 balls fit in the slots on the faucet handel perfectly, but will roll all over the place if lifted by hand. Once under unit they are stabilzed by the weight of the unit. But they will roll if touched to hard, And that is what they are supossed to do. You can upgrade the ball to a Tungsten Carbide grade 25 ball for even better results. I have these under everything. There is not one item in my system that sounded better with any of the other tweeks. Like the Aurios Pro's the more the better. My Hales Rev 3's were the last thing I changed because I had bought some top-notch soild brass points for them. It was as if the music became unforced in my system. It seemed so natural with no straining at all. Just music coming out of darkness. I've kept this under wraps for a year. But now I must speak. BTW they look good also with the all Alum. and chrom. steel.
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?
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?