Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend?

That's a good thought, Tbg; so far I have not perceived any ill effect on speed or stability. Now and then, the player refuses to read, but sonically there seems to be an appreciable difference.

Again, this was done as a spur-of-the-moment experiment that has not been subject to quantitative analysis etc.

In the meantime, I'll rotate the jacks....

Thanks for the caveat, nevertheless!

Ultrabit Platinum from Digital Systems & Solutions, sold with Clean Disc; provides impressive improvement in the CD sound in my system. I use use a couple of drops(I find the spray amount is very excessive)per disc,spread well and wipe off with old soft cotton t-shirt. Provides significantly cleaner more nuanced sound for me. Enjoy. pete

A comment about a speaker tweek lifted from another forum-

"Sorry if I didn't make this clear. Longer waveforms are wrapping around box speaker enclosures and being reflected later in time by room boundaries and such. Hence, a reason for room treatment. Shorter waveforms higher up in the frequency response and produced by your tweeter are first interacting with and being diffracted by the baffle and edges of your enclosure arriving just behind the pure signal at the expense of proper time and phase arrival. This would be damped and diffraction eliminated by what I make. The example that previously appeared in my avatar was on a Dynaudio Confidence C4 speaker. I custom fit to a particlar speaker. A Revel M22 appears in my avatar at present. Here is a link to an animated illustration of diffraction in action. You may be able to imagine what you would be hearing without those green and red circles- http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/images/diffdem.gif

Speaker designer John Dunlavy wrote that the phenomenon known as listener fatique is the direct result of time and phase malady. I observed this to be true in the design stage for myself. The more obvious benefits are improvements to how instruments are rendered and sound. Questions?"

That link is pretty revealing of the subject and this would be my recommendation.

You could put a mystery bag(but then it would affect the sound)over this, and charge $150/set(3 of course)and not feel guilty. In my current setup, this opened up a window on the midrange-with voices to die for. On my Nuforce amps, I put an Eaglesound myrtle block with isonode(small) under it. Three per side. I just bought 4-inch Mapleshade amp stands on Audiogon(thanks Copperbop), and tried putting my Nuforce 8.5V1's directly on it, then with Eaglesound myrtle blocks between amp and stand. Previously, I had tried isonodes alone. Anyhow, with the myrtle blocks right under the amp and isonodes between blocks and stand, all of a sudden we get music. No contest compared to the other two ways. It's so good that I'm skipping the approved brass cones(for now), and will be looking into speaker supports. BTW blocks are $3 each, and isonodes cost $15 for a pack of 4. I believe I mentioned this tweek to both manufacturers a few years ago.

Pinot Noir works wonders.

I can't remember if I had already suggested that previously.