| Ref# |
Cm |
Tweak Description |
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| 445 | | Dedicated
mains |
| 444 | | Equipment
Isolation |
| 443 | | The
wonders of blu-tac on my Rotel rcd-1070 cd player |
| 442 | | Anyone use Quietcoat? |
| 441 | | AC outlet |
| 440 | | MiHorn/Focus Ring Alternatives. |
| 439 | | Change your existing basic outlet with a commercial grade outlet |
| 438 | | MDF Shelf Treatment |
| 435 | | Damping Material |
| 434 | 1 | Tighten the screws on your speakers in the speaker cabinets. |
| 433 | | Effective, cheap, very affordable and easy to install. |
| 431 | | Speakers setup on carpet |
| 429 | | Digital to Analog Sound...the Easy Way!!! |
| 428 | | The Space Harmonizer, a new unique resonant platform |
| 412 | 7 | Freezing
your cds |
| 411 | | FM
performance |
| 410 | 1 | Concrete blocks above AND below the sub! |
| 408 | | Contact
treatment |
| 407 | 1 | Clean
up bass response on sub-woofer |
| 406 | 1 | Fix
the popped in middle part of your speakers for free |
| 405 | 1 | Isolation
platform |
| 404 | | Leaving
your equipment switched on |
| 403 | 1 | Turntable
isolation via holographic setup principles |
| 402 | | Stylus
replacement shure m75, m91 etc |
| 401 | 1 | Cheap
mains conditioner |
| 400 | | Replacing
spikes on stands |
| 399 | | CD
player platform |
| 398 | | Dampening
CD player chassis/housing |
| 397 | | Dampning
inside CD player |
| 396 | | Cheaper
Supplier of Lead/Steel Shot |
| 395 | | Voltage
regulation |
| 394 | | Make
ground plan for DAC chip, easy way to improove S/N |
| 393 | | Styrene
foam cylinders [as cable separators] |
| 392 | 1 | Reducing
"digititis" glare of CD |
| 391 | 8 | Bass
Tune your room |
| 390 | 1 | Focus
Rings |
| 388 | | Inky
black contact enhancer liquid |
| 387 | 1 | Zobel
network calculator |
| 385 | 7 | Amazing
speaker tweak |
| 384 | | CD
Base |
| 383 | | AC
Line Noise |
| 382 | | Anti-Resonance
Platform for audio components |
| 379 | 1 | Audio
Spectrum analysis, home theater room optimizer |
| 378 | 1 | Checking
AC field around your cables |
| 377 | 3 | Put
ferrite beads on your speaker cables |
| 376 | 1 | Twin
inner tube damping device |
| 374 | | Acorn
nuts under speaker spikes |
| 373 | 1 | The
speaker attachment to improve sound |
| 372 | 2 | Mass
Load Device |
| 371 | | Boost
your subs directly at 30 hz For hearth shaking effects |
| 369 | 3 | Silicone
resin used inside cabinet for maximum clarity |
| 367 | | Wall
panels - Effective and cheap |
| 366 | | Vibration
control for components, $15 rollerblocks |
| 365 | | Buckwheat Pillow Vibration Fix |
| 364 | | Component
isolation (substutite for graphite blocks) |
| 363 | | Cheap
AC line noise filter |
| 362 | 1 | Twist
your interconnect cables into "twisted pair" |
| 360 | | Hockey
Pucks (as equipment feet) |
| 359 | | Turntable
Tweak |
| 358 | 3 | Video
and Audio improvements in Home Theatre System |
| 357 | | Children's
toy flotation tubes... |
| 356 | | Subwoofer
tweak |
| 355 | 4 | AC
plugs |
| 354 | 3 | AC
outlet |
| 352 | 1 | Vibration
control platform. |
| 351 | | Clean
Your Clock - quick tweak to improve the clock performance in your CD player. |
| 348 | | Upgrade
caps resistors in speaker crossovers. |
| 347 | | Driver
dampening on speaker cabinets. |
| 346 | 6 | Aluminium
honeycomb footers. |
| 345 | | Pirelli
bi-wire cables, strands not solid-core, as speaker cables. |
| 342 | 5 | Use Brasso polish to make scratchy CD's like new again. |
| 341 | 1 | Stabilize the voltage supply on IC in CD player, DAC, OPAmp etc. to improve leading edge of music pulses. |
| 340 | 1 | Cd cleaner that really improves the sound quality of budget cd players. |
| 339 | 1 | Clean all copper contacts like equipment plugs,valve pins,fuses.More current to your system. |
| 338 | | Stand speakers on a cutout piece of 1-2 cm thick polystyrene, the same size as the base of each speaker. |
| 337 | | Neat dampeners |
| 335 | | Improved stability, vibration damping, focuses speakers |
| 334 | | Superior version of MDF (medium density fiberboard). |
| 333 | 4 | Make your
own awesome solid silver interconnects and cables |
| 332 | | Better alternative to expensive HiFi stands. |
| 331 | | Use your chimney for amazingly true bass |
| 330 | | Get your ears tweaked |
| 329 | 2 | Use pieces of a thick neoprene mousepad to decouple speakers on stands |
| 328 | | Speaker/speaker stand isolation platform |
| 326 | 1 | Apply FunTack to caps, ICs and transistors. |
| 324 | 1 | Short circuit the digital out from your cd-player when not onnected to a separate d/a converter |
| 323 | | Resonance damping of bass and midrange steel baskets with car repair "steel plastics" |
| 322 | | Place thin piece of mortite strategically on cd transport tray so that it doesn't interfere with the opening and closing function. |
| 321 | | Use un frozen medical gel pads for vibration control |
| 320 | | Solid-Tech |
| 319 | 4 | Three evenly spaced PVC tubes behind speakers to tune them |
| 318 | | BassLine, an acoustic enhancement invention for improving sound from bass reflex speakers. |
| 317 | 1 | Tennis Balls for Excellent Dampning and Better Air Circulation |
| 316 | | Rollerblocks |
| 315 | | Air Isolation of components! |
| 314 | | Inexpensive high quality interconnect wire for thoes that make their own interconnects |
| 293 | | Use chapstick it fix a scratched cd. |
| 292 | | Zerostat to render cd's static free. |
| 291 | | Vinyl flooring as great panel damping. |
| 290 | | Flour in ziploc bags rather than sand. |
| 288 | | Home made, non-shielded (Not needed and only degrades the sound), low capacitance solid silver interconnects. |
| 287 | | Laser alinging your speakers, perfect alingment! |
| 286 | 1 | Remove stock (hard plastic) feet from your CD player |
| 285 | 1 | Put ball bearings in three Vibrapods and place turntable on it. |
| 284 | | Reduce front baffle loudspeaker diffraction losses |
| 283 | | TUNED THOSE BUDJETS TURNTABLES |
| 282 | | An isolation platform for your turntable. Probably works well on CD players too. |
| 281 | | Solder wire ends to prevent fraying + improve connections |
| 280 | | Low jitter, high accuracy replacement CD clock module |
| 279 | | Just try the tweak, and you never forget |
| 278 | | Oak drawer knobs from DIY shop used as equipment feet. |
| 277 | | To extend the IC's life and dampen created HF |
| 276 | 3 | If your Television is between your speakers, throw a blanket over it when listening to music. |
| 275 | | Component isolation |
| 274 | 2 | Amazing roller ball isolation device for CD players |
| 273 | | Neoprene washer substitute. |
| 272 | 1 | Cheap CD Mat |
| 271 | | Perfect sound staging |
| 270 | | Place layers of bubble wrap under component shelves to achieve air based isolation. |
| 269 | 3 | Biamp and biwire your loudspeakers if possible. |
| 268 | | Plants in the neighbourhood of your turntable. |
| 267 | | Best Solid Silver loudspeaker cable on Earth |
| 266 | 4 | Very cheap CD mat |
| 265 | 3 | Improve CD sound quality instantly |
| 264 | | Positioning spikes for optimum sonics |
| 263 | | Replacing cheap wire with higher quality copper.More punch,and higher definition |
| 262 | | "Spikes" for speakers, racks, et al |
| 261 | | Speaker damping without fibreglass,etc. |
| 260 | | Replace speaker terminals and wires to crossover with some decent (solderable) speaker cable soldered directly to crossover, spades to amp |
| 257 | | Silk Cloth to Suspend Cables and Interconnects |
| 256 | 1 | Single most effective improvement/repair to a CD. |
| 255 | | Place superglue over crystal clock, stabilising it further |
| 254 | | An isolation platform placed on top of components to reduce EFI interference and better the effectiveness of isolation platforms. |
| 253 | | Air dampening/isolation device |
| 252 | | Reducing 60Hz line noise or "hum" on your system. |
| 250 | 3 | Rap power and interconnect cables with tin foil. |
| 249 | | Arrow heads and hardwood as resonant control |
| 248 | | Speaker setup |
| 247 | | Skipping CD's |
| 245 | | Vibration isolation platform. |
| 244 | 2 | The Nordost Eco 3 Antistatic Spray prevents static charges to build up on your equipment, your cables and even your records and CD's! |
| 243 | | Switch cycling |
| 241 | | Internal contact enhancement. |
| 240 | 1 | Digital equipment in separate a/c zone. |
| 239 | | Back wall resonance deadening. |
| 238 | 1 | Bike tube under CD player/amp |
| 237 | | Lifting speakercables off the floor |
| 236 | | Bitumen damping of CD cabinet |
| 235 | | Damping of CD transport mechanism |
| 234 | | Keeps speaker cables from touching the ground. |
| 233 | 1 | Anti-static spray in maximum performance bottle. |
| 232 | | Gold connector cleaner and conditioner-sealer |
| 231 | | Economically challenged tube traps |
| 230 | | Vibrapods are great but can't be used with spikes unless you have some kind of cover for them. |
| 229 | | Terminal and contact cleaner with electro-magnetic properties to enhance electrical connectivity on gold surfaces |
| 228 | | Use nylon bolts instead of spikes on hardwood floors. |
| 227 | | Some use tennis balls, but for those of us with limited space "squash balls" work better for component isolation. |
| 226 | | Use a sheet of EAR ISODAMP, about 30 per. and cover the top and bottom of the chassis with it. |
| 225 | 1 | Damping(especially metal- and ceramic dome) tweeter's high-freq. Resonance |
| 224 | | Put eggboxes of commercial damping panels in critical areas to cut reflected energy at listening position. |
| 223 | | Foam ring around tweeters. |
| 222 | | Put folio paper under components. |
| 221 | | Cover all the internal sides of a speaker-cabinet with car underbody sealant(type of silicon). |
| 220 | 2 | Use an isolation transformer without plugging your equipment into it |
| 219 | 2 | Elevate your listening position to get your ears at the same level as your tweeters. |
| 218 | | Use drink koozies to prop your wiring off the floor. |
| 217 | | Set your spikes in screw heads |
| 216 | | Inexpensive vibration damping for preamp or cd cabinets |
| 215 | 1 | Very cheap, very good sounding homebrew speaker cable |
| 214 | | Ohm that unused digital output! |
| 213 | 1 | BI-Amping your system...eliminate the crossover in the speaker |
| 212 | | Vitalizing most tube amps by modernizing the driving-section. |
| 211 | | Compound Bias for tube power amplifiers. Not just fixed OR auto Bias, but both. |
| 210 | | Cones/Trap'zd's/bullet shaped anti-resonant weights for speakers/electronics |
| 209 | | Speaker/IC line supports...cones/rounds/polys/squares/trap'zds |
| 208 | | Entry point of each rca plug (pref WBT) should be overlayed w/ shrinking Teflon stuffed w/ wool felt |
| 206 | | Put a resistor of 20-50 ohms parallel to the tweeter. |
| 205 | | Place all cabling off of the floor using styrofoam cups. |
| 203 | | A demp the chassis with MDF blocks 2 inch square |
| 202 | | Install a special power group only for your audio installation |
| 201 | | Play Densen : DeMAGIC CD |
| 200 | | Replace all the ceramic capacitors with WIMA red ones (No MKS). or Siemens styroflex |
| 199 | 1 | Adding new connectors to your amp. |
| 198 | | Look in the ads in hi-fi mags and design your own speaker and equipment stands |
| 197 | | Shelves can be improved upon by a sandwich of plywood and cork. |
| 196 | 2 | Air pillow (hemorrhoid cushion) I call the asphalt pillows. |
| 195 | | Put a bag of shot on your amp, if possible (don't block air holes) and especially on your CD player. |
| 194 | 4 | Isolating Stones |
| 193 | | Cheep method of damping bass standing waves |
| 192 | 1 | Use inflated rubber tubes as seismic sink of CD or turntable players. |
| 190 | | Equalize audio to match your hearing! |
| 189 | | Quad els on target stands. |
| 188 | | Run the demagnetizer over the CD for before each play. |
| 187 | 3 | Amp on-top of cd |
| 186 | | Purchased stanley door stoppers from WallMart and placed under amp and turntable for isolation. |
| 185 | | Cheap way to improve readability of scratched cds. |
| 184 | 3 | Heavy felt tweeter rings for smoother detailed treble |
| 183 | | Big do-it-yourself ferrite rings for eliminating EFI in power/speaker cables. |
| 182 | 1 | Brasso Metal Polish can be used to clean any contacting surfaces (e.g. bare speaker wires, phono plugs e.t.c.). |
| 180 | | Upgrade the mains supply |
| 179 | | Short the unused inputs on your pre-amp. |
| 178 | 1 | Damp amplifier cooling fins |
| 177 | | Homemade speaker and component support. |
| 174 | | A static discharge device, similar in effect to Versa Labs' "Zap", which retails for $40.00. |
| 173 | | Poster hanging putty |
| 172 | | A polymer damping sheet with a concentric circle design on one side-supposed to eliminate internal standing waves |
| 171 | 1 | A sheet of .125" damping material with a viscoelastic adhesive backing |
| 170 | | A cylindrical open-cell foam piece of tubing used for insulation of water pipes |
| 169 | 1 | Using this interconnect between transport and d/a converter |
| 168 | | Use between pre-amp and subwoofer to eliminate bad effects of long interconnects on sound quality |
| 167 | | Using 3 natural quart crystal balls inserted into wood base for the equipment support. |
| 166 | | An improvised RoomLens |
| 165 | | Replace your current speaker wire with Home Depot 6 gauge stranded electrical wire. |
| 164 | 1 | Marble support table. Wonderful!! |
| 163 | | Replacing rectifiers of power supply. Incredible! |
| 162 | | Short-out unused inputs of your preamp |
| 161 | | Home made power cords. Amazing! |
| 160 | | Position cd-player and preamp away from power amplifier. |
| 159 | | Mounting bypass capacitors in your speakers network. |
| 158 | | Shortcut the unused INPUTS to the preamplifier (No, not OUTPUTS, please, unless you want to make some damage!) |
| 157 | | Basic reinforced Aluminum cone |
| 156 | 1 | Rec-out preamp connection |
| 155 | 1 | Ferrite rings |
| 151 | | Switch components from left to right channel. |
| 149 | | Use a sound pressure meter to help place speakers (and integrate a sub-woofer) by balancing all of the frequencies. |
| 148 | | Got my speakers "off the ground" and moved the horn tweeter to ear level made a WORLD of difference! |
| 147 | | Speaker cones or spikes DRAMATICALLY increase not only BASS response but soundstage and imaging! |
| 143 | | Blue tacky puddy like substance provides great damping and coupling to speakers |
| 142 | | MDF Speaker Stand |
| 141 | 2 | Correct Polarity using a Digital Multi Meter |
| 140 | | Setting up speakers with string |
| 139 | 1 | Hospital grade power outlets |
| 138 | 1 | MDF sand Box |
| 137 | 2 | Erosion of the edge of CD |
| 136 | | Changing power cord connections to mains |
| 134 | | Near field monitoring |
| 132 | | Suspending your speaker wires off the floor |
| 131 | | Small metal cones under front edge of proac tablettes |
| 130 | | 2 in. thick square concrete slabs on top of my subwoofer |
| 129 | | Tracking weight |
| 128 | | Chimney flu linner speaker stands |
| 127 | | Tweeter anti-diffraction rings |
| 126 | | Remove build up of static charges on the surface of any cable as well as CD's |
| 125 | | Speaker setup |
| 123 | | Eliminating first reflections in listening room |
| 122 | | Use shorter runs of speaker cables |
| 121 | | Tighten the screws on the units of your speakers from time to time |
| 120 | 1 | Coins placed under the spikes of speakers or stands |
| 119 | 1 | Solid core, house hold industry, mains cable as your power cords |
| 117 | 1 | Coins on top of speakers do wonders |
| 116 | | A platform to reduce the vibration of a CD player or source |
| 115 | | Using Belden coax cable as speaker wire |
| 114 | | DeoxIt and Pro-Gold are contact cleaners which also improve the conductivity of all the (electrical)contacts in your hifi setup |
| 113 | | Connecting two identical conductors in a single path |
| 112 | 2 | Speaker Enclosure Deadening |
| 110 | 1 | The ultimate no-cost speaker stand |
| 109 | | Outboard Power Supply/ transformer |
| 108 | | Installed two cooling fans in an entertainment unit to reduce heat generated by six components. |
| 107 | 1 | In addition to painting the CD edges green, painting the CD tray and the inside of the chassis cover would also benefit from the green paint effect |
| 106 | | Rope platform for audio components |
| 105 | | 10kg Steal block for use with acoustic balance cones |
| 104 | | Cones made of Aluminum outercone in which steal inlay is shrinked. space is filled with bitumen-like material |
| 103 | | Separate Digital and analogue Supplies to regulators and run digital (5V) regulators from Nicad Batteries |
| 102 | | Even if you don't have static, you'll want to use this awesome contact cleaner/protector |
| 101 | | Do-it-yourself RFI detection |
| 100 | 1 | Adding a 3/4" glass panel to the top of the CD player |
| 98 | 3 | Improve your imaging in spite of having a TV between your speakers |
| 97 | | Damping vibration in lower priced cd players to improve performance |
| 96 | | Secure your minimonitors or other stand mounted speakers to improve bass & imaging |
| 95 | | A fast and easy way to set up your speakers for good bass response |
| 94 | | Outboard power supply |
| 93 | 2 | My tweak is about equipment damping, instead of buying Shakti Stones or Bright Stars, I put block of marble at the top of each of my component so vibrations are damped and somewhat minimized |
| 92 | 4 | Half racquetballs to dampen components |
| 91 | | Glass panel tweak |
| 90 | | Phono cable dressing for suspended t.tables |
| 89 | 2 | More of a repair for dented dust caps in speakers or tweeters themselves than a tweak actually. |
| 88 | | Throwing away the OP amps at the output of the dacs. replacing them with tube |
| 87 | 1 | Replacing the 12 volts DC power supply with two car battery |
| 86 | | Rewiring from the terminals to the diaphragm. Taking out the inner screen |
| 85 | | Adding wings to A7 to get better image and lower in bottom octaves |
| 84 | | The best tube damping rings |
| 83 | 2 | Improved AC hot to AC neutral EMI/RFI filters |
| 82 | | Improved DIY AC neutral to ground EMI/RFI filter |
| 81 | | Direct rca to rca connection |
| 79 | | Cones |
| 77 | 2 | Slate under the spikes of the speaker stand |
| 76 | | Applied to ac electrical contacts |
| 74 | | Speaker placement greatly affects bass especially with Legacy Focus speakers |
| 72 | 1 | Remove the damping from reflex speakers and insert a V shaped brace running top to bottom (2"x2" approx.)to break up standing waves and add speed to bass |
| 71 | | Clean up your home's AC line |
| 70 | | Remove your grill cloths |
| 68 | | Use to damp vibrations |
| 67 | | Use spiral cable wrap to damp resonances of tonearm |
| 66 | 1 | Use plastic 35mm film containers on power cords, interconnects and speaker cable to cut RFI |
| 65 | | Lift chokes off pc-board |
| 63 | | This tweak takes the harshness out of cone tweeters |
| 62 | 2 | Wooden boxes filled with #8 lead shot |
| 61 | | Foam mattress pads on your wall |
| 60 | | Placing a piece of "Mpingo Disc" on top of the CD player's spindle position |
| 59 | 1 | Securing bookshelf speakers with "Blue-tac" on stands |
| 58 | | Putting marble/granite slabs of different thickness underneath the spikes of the amplifier improves soundstaging |
| 57 | 2 | Great way to hold speakers down to stands |
| 56 | | The system configuration solution for the pure audio versus home-theater dilemma |
| 55 | 1 | Inexpensive, but effective acoustic panels |
| 54 | | Effective, low cost, easy to make and use record clamp |
| 52 | 1 | Put (drinking)-straws in the bass reflex port in your speakers |
| 51 | 1 | Find correct polarity of speakersystem |
| 50 | 1 | Black Diamond Racing cones, The Things and The Pits… |
| 49 | 1 | OHP covers |
| 48 | | Poor man's seismic sink |
| 45 | | Different soundimage in surroundsystems |
| 43 | | Warm running water & a thin film of soap rinsed well in the same exotic running viscus fluid cleans CD's as well as the high priced spread |
| 41 | | Construct Maple sand Box for equipment support |
| 39 | | Close doors to listening area |
| 38 | | Reduce resonance of wood component racks |
| 37 | 3 | Use plumber’s teflon tape on your small input tubes for vibration control |
| 35 | | Damping for equipment racks and speaker stands |
| 33 | | Separate dedicated AC lines for amp and digital components |
| 32 | 1 | Mount these to your speakers and low frequencies are enhanced. |
| 31 | | Change the capacitors and resistors in the cross-over in your speakers to better types |
| 30 | 1 | Damping feet for CD players |
| 29 | | Nothing to upgrade? Then upgrade your AC cord to this |
| 28 | | Item is a clear plastic-like material in the form of a washer. It has a tacky surface |
| 26 | | Cheap tonearm wrap |
| 25 | | Large bubble wrap isolation for CDP |
| 24 | | Marble slab subwoofer platform |
| 23 | 2 | 2 inch thick poly foam tubing placed around speaker cables |
| 22 | | Improved contact |
| 20 | 2 | 10 pair telephone wire as speaker cable |
| 19 | | Coil spring mounting of speaker enclosures |
| 18 | 1 | These are little metal cones, put them under your speakers and you will have midrange galore, esp, guitars and vocals |
| 17 | 1 | Granite plate |
| 16 | | Fill gallon bags with play sand, place on top of CD players, amplifiers (away from heat-dispersion fins!) |
| 12 | 1 | Fill freezer type Ziplock sandwich storage bags with sand and sandwich between two pieces of MDF |
| 11 | | Contact cleaner and preservative |
| 10 | | Isolation device |
| 9 | 1 | CD spinner and magnetic field source used in combination with a tape demagnetizer |
| 8 | | Component isolation device |
| 7 | 3 | Pluse transformer for Digital |
| 6 | 3 | Ground your metal rack, reduce noise |
| 5 | | Cheap tube damper for input and driver tubes |
| 4 | 1 | Get the Digital Gear away from your tuner |
| 3 | 5 | Stuff dacron pillow batting into the ports on your ported speaker to tune the bass response |
| 2 | 4 | Build yourself a component rack |
