My vote for Tweak of the Week

For $26,000 + room, board for four days, and round trip air fare from Sweden to you, you can have former Abba bass player Rutger Gunnarsson come and cop a squat in your listening room in each of the four corners of the room. Gunnarsson's turds have been proven to have mirraculous properties of acoustic absorption that has yet to be reproduced by any (other) man-made substance. These properties belie their relatively diminutive size, exhibiting a remarkable NRC rating across the entire acoustic spectrum. A handful of user reviews over on Audioasylum claim the break-in period is lengthy and arduous, with one of the lowest WAF's in all of tweakdom (better send her off to St. Barth while those turds are aging), but in the end all users claim improvements of insurmountable proportions. Audioasylum inmate "4EVRsingle" claims Rutger's stools made a "buttload of difference in my impossibly lively listening room", while inmate "analaudio" tells of how during those first four weeks of burn-in time he became so disgusted by his apparent mistaken investment that he came close to flushing the damn things down the toilet. His story is a happy one though, as he goes on to say that one day, after about five weeks with the fetid piles, he began to notice a smoothness to the sound of his system that he had never thought attainable. From there on in it only got better. "These are the TRUE "Magic Brick's", he concludes! And everyone reports Gunnarsson "is a real nice guy....and he speaks English real good too!"

Yet another great tweak suggestion from the inventor of "The Perch"!!!

Marco

Hey Albert - Small planet indeed! I'll bet we can trace it all back to Kevin Bacon somehow! Leave it to the originator of the "Porter-Outlet" to come up with a more affordable and effective tweak. OK Albert, how much for the cat turds? I've already blown my tweak-allowance for the month on Loontoon's excellent Cyprus output jacks. But maybe in March I can order up some of your Persian's poops. As long as you don't send them by FedexGround as I'm sure they'll figure out a way to damage them. Have you tested the hairballs yet?

Marco

HoooHaaaa, it's those $500 wooden knobs back again. The same knobs Blue Circle manages to put on most of their gear at a seemingly amazing discount. Must be those low Canadian lumber prices. Can you just imagine the profit margin on those suckers! But, oh, worth every damn penny. Why I purchased 6 at the low, low price of $3000.00 and attached them to every one of my components. The mono amps, CD transport and DAC have no attenuators so I just crazy-glued them in strategic positions. Oh the differences I heard....well let me tell you, they were not subtle....soundstage deep, wide, high, low.....dynamics in spades......transients decaying like the taste of a smooth cabernet...."GOSH DAMN," said my visiting neighbor who came to borrow my sawzall, "your stereo sure does sound great, where can I get me one of those?" I told him about the knobs and he just ordered himself up a half-dozen himself and stuck'em all over his 1987 vintage JVC/Bose rig and I'll be damned if the thing doesn't put most high-dollar boutique rigs to shame now! The secret's out now so you'd better get yours while the price is still reasonable! They even have a moderate WAF of 7.9 if they are discreetly attached. That factor goes down to the Divorce Level if your wife should actually see the invoice. Just tell her you got'em at Home Depot, or spun'em yourself on your friend's lathe....but do make sure that invoice goes in the shredder! Oh, and Loontoon, I'll take six of your remaining output jacks if there's some still left. I still got plenty of crazy-glue!

Marco