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.
Quadophile
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.
Quadophile