What is your favorite low-tech tweek?


With all of this talk of expensive interconnects, the right plugs, etc., what have you done to your system that has been helpful but without shelling out tons of money?

In a differant thread I saw where I could use some foam insulation used for water pipes to wrap around my longer interconnects to keep them off the floor and seperated from other cables/wires. Also, I am using a pair of tall electrostatic speakers laying on their sides for audio. They are positioned at the base of my screen used in my home theatre. I didn't want the speakers flat on the hardwood floors, so I am using a couple month's supply of wine corks beneath the speakers for seperation. Finally, I got a bit tired looking at the cheap two-wire power cord that came with my Cd player and I re-wired a much better computer cord to a two-pronged plug and I do believe I have better results. That, or I should have made the best use of what the wine corks were designed to do stop with the crazy creative tinkering. So, what have you done along these lines?
unclejeff
I should list most of my tweaks as it's difficult to determine what the benefits of one would be without the other tweaks already in place.

With that said, my most favorite low-cost tweaks thus far include:

1. Installing Star Sound Technologies' Audio Points on my rack. Nice improvement after installation. Amazing improvement after break-in.

2. Installing dedicated lines myself.

3. Lifting the grounds on the dedicated lines.

4. Reconnecting the ground only on my pre-amp line.

5. Building my own rack to more properly address the mechanical transfer to ground of air-borne vibrations and resonance.

6. Re-installing the original bi-wire jumper straps that came with my speakers to work together with my mono-terminated cables and associated 6" jumpers.

-IMO
Its been beaten to death, but I really like what the Ikea LACK table does for the cost of a CD.

AudioQuest's binding post wrench is really nice for $10.

Rsbeck came up with a good one, maybe the best one. Listening at night at the end of the body's daily cycle with the lights off is good stuff.
Cheapest? Superballs. Either in vibrapods or cut in half. I even have superballs cut in half in place of the spikes on my target stand[not for heavy systems] the balls would split......but the suckers work, big time.....see the tweaks with superballs over at AA.
Black Hole Pad vibration damping material.

Works on transformers, speaker cabinets, IC chips,
top covers, bottom covers, you name it.

Only thing better is a strong cup of kava or
a beautiful wahine that doesn't get headaches.