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
Clean all your connectors the next time you tidy up the sound room. Use Ultra Connect, Caig, or one of the brands that bottle Shark liver oil.

Regardless of which you choose, the act of cleaning all your RCA, balanced and speaker terminals is a tweak that is 100% positive, immediately audible and nearly free.
Turn off the lights. Your auditory senses become
more acute in the dark. Cheapest and best bang for the buck I know of. If you do this at night after everyone
has gone to bed and the house is still, it will sound
even better. Listening late at night with the lights off.
The quality of your electricity is probably at its highest,
too.

Agree with Sugarbrie, plus add to you speakers to really coiple them to the floor pusing the spikes down. Made my speakers sound like 801s from 803s.
Hockey pucks for resonance damping under components (about a buck apiece). Cable lifters made of 3 chopsticks lashed together with rubber bands. Maple blocks from Bed, Bath and Beyond. The "Little Rat" battery-powered phono preamp from Radio Shack, no world-beater, but not bad for under $25.
I agree with Dopogue on the hockey pucks. I use them under pracitcally everything. Also my speaker stands and amp stand are 4 pucks each with a one foot square concrete footer on top of the pucks. These made my Hales Rev 3s sound even better. And be sure to use spikes under your speaker. And you don't care if the concrete gets scratched. And if you wish, you can paint the concrete.