Acoustic Treatment or Cable Upgrades?

Get the best Radio Shack cables, do the room treatment and then upgrade the cables as money permits.

Two thousand dollars and smart shopping could make an unbelievable difference in acoustics. Especially if you apply do it yourself along with smart buys on used. I would put RPG's, Tube Traps and Room Tunes on the possibility list.

Actually JCAudio, I should have thought of that myself.

There are good buys used on acoustic treatments and decent audiophile wire as well. I agree that they could both fit comfortably inside the 2K mark.

You will just have to search the various audio sites and wait until some are available. I recently had a guy offer ASC Tube Traps for $75.00 each. Probably due to the fact that I paid cash and he did not have to hassle with finding boxes and shipping them.

There are posts here in Audiogons archives concerning DIY room treatments, and even a few good books on the subject. Much of the mystery of these specialty products are just in the assembly of common products such as fiberglass and transparent cloths.