Tweaks


The latest issue of Absolute Sound has a list of 15 or so tweaks that they say are worth doing. I would like to get some feedback from others about 3 of them.

1. Grounding Caps for unused preamp inputs.
2. Equipment anti-vibration devices such as Vibropods.
3. Aligning interconnects and power cords so that they cross at right angles to each other. (This sounds like a very difficult thing to arrange).
frepec
It's refreshing to see some folks still have a sense of humor.Now,what was that number again?????
You want to make sure that none of your power cables are touching your interconnects or speaker cables. None.
The list of tweaks for CDP is endless. Here's another article on free tweaks. Long but interesting. More importantly it's free. : )

http://bursonaudioblog.blogspot.com/...for-geeks.html
Grounding plugs I will buy, and various vibrations pucks, pads and cones help but crossing interconnects are right angles????? Save your breath. I have some magic dust that changes the humidity and lets your speakers breath with more depth. It costs only $25 per ounce. Email me if interested
As far as the crossing wires/ic's...45deg or greater is fine. Not that it would induce noise but typically it's a good idea to not run audio and video signal cables parallel and neither parallel with power cords. Less gear in rig the easier this is to do. I have some audio and video connects running parallel but they are seperated by a couple feet down the back of my av rack. Where I was more cautious was with my surround spkr cables which are run through attic and cross the electrical lines up there. I think 90 deg would be ideal...but not practical.