Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend?

Has nayone tried putting 2" thick maple blocks under components? Does this actually help?

Here goes my list:

1. Dedicated lines
2. A carpet or some kind of diffusion material on the wall behind the speaker. This trick will probably not work for Bose owners.
3.Tap on the top cover of components. If it rings metallically put heavy magazines or books on top or glue non ferrous metals to the top that are different than the top cover.
4.Carpet on the floor.
5. Clean connections
6. Get rid of cheap extension cords.
7. Turn off unused digital when using analog.

I am also interested in if the maple shelves work. Anybody have any feedback on that?

I believe you can cancel off unwanted resonance with shelves made of any materials as long as it is well made. Each material has a different mechanical vibration signature, and you just need to compact numerous materials together that has varied density and conduction properties such as Nuance and Symposium shelves. I place paper between my metal shelves and component with some dynamat under the shelves.

The best tweak that I ever ended up with was to fill the custom designed stands with river sand. Cost? FREE Difference? UNBELIEVABLE. You just cannot go wrong trying this tweak.

If you happen to be using any kind of mass loadable speaker stands like I do for my Paradigm Reference Studio 40 v.2, you MUST fill it up with sand. I designed and built the stands with a 6-1/2 inch dia center post of MS steel with bottom plate having spikes for mechanical decoupling from the ground.

I was under the impression that it would dampen the bass but I was wrong, it not only dampened the bass, it improved the sound of the system from 34Hz-20,000Hz (well to be precised it helped the entire spectrum of sound).

It may be the dirtiest work that you ever do to tweak, your system, but, I have no hesitation is saying that it would certainly be the most satisfying tweak.

Talk about cheap tweaks, there cannot be anything cheaper than this.

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