What is your favorite low-tech tweek?

Getting my wife and son out of the house. The system always sounds amazing then.

I like to put my speakers near my bed (but not too close) and fall asleep to music, especially after a good night bath, with my favorite cup of tea, I am in heaven. Somehow, it sounds better lying down - I have no scientific explanation for it. May be we used to be like dogs and our head got more blood supply since horizontal placement of our body; hence yogis upside down poses. Feels good, everyone should try it. You can just sit in a chair, and let your head down for a few minutes.
This relaxed state of mined between the waking and the sleeping stage (the alpha state) is great for listening to music. I wouldn't recommend songs with words though - they might have the scary effect of hypnotizing us (All the audio exec. systems with waking up feature should not allow radio as a source to wake up to for this reason). Anyone in the industry should alert manufactures. Wake up to CD music only, without words to be safe.

Clean your ear out with a wax removing liquid from any drug store. I kept turning down the vol. after I did this. I couldn't believe how loudly I've been playing all these years. No wonder my neighbors complained. They are good sports - I put up with their dog barking in the night. You will not be disappointed - this is different from just using q tips. Music sounds more luxurious. Everyone should know about this simple tweak - tell it to musicians especially.

I like making DIY speaker cable out of thickest solid copper wire you can find, and combining with strands to get the best of both worlds. You can also add silver wire to it if you like. I love the sound of the silver for liquid and transparent characteristics. Since you can fine tune the sound by combining different amount, it's fun and economical.

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.