Upgrade with best price/performance ratio


Just wondering what was your upgrade with the best price/performance ration in your audio journey ... like upgrading an IC, preamp etc ...

Let me start:

-Corian pieces leftover from kitchen upgrade project

out of boredom I used the Corian chopping boards and put them in between the shelf's MDF board and BDR cones. The effect was a big surprise ...

- much quieter background, solid bass and cleaned up mid and treble.
kschiu

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Similar story, best price/performance ratio: Blutack on shelf supports to isolate wooden shelves. Second best, powercord for my amp made with parts from Home Depot ($17). Third best, Fusion/Auvio interconnects from Radio Shack ($15-20). Honorable mention, ash chopping block placed under my CDP ($18 on clearance from Home Depot). Not sure this counts, my brothers old Thorens TD150 MkII (free).
Yes, speaker positioning and appropriate connection to floor - very high on the price/performance list (very low p:p ratio). I also felt replacing all fuses in my amp with HiFi Tuning silver fuses and adding aftermarket PC to my CDP provided big performance boosts for not tremendous amount of money, but both were well over $100 so a higher price/performance ratio compared to those I listed above.