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Any new tweaks out there?

I know we've had threads dealing with this topic but newer members may have experiences not presented thus far. For instance, I'm sure many of us have noticed the the skimpy 12-14awg leads on the power supply of our amps. Has anyone tried replacing them with say, 8awg just to see what happens? Or changing out main caps? Or changing to pure silver signal wire? Or using the solder provision instead of the hold-down nuts on binding posts on the amp-side? Or going from E-I to toroid, etc.....? It would be great to hear about something new.
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elizabeth
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I stay out of the upgrade electronics internals..
But tweaks on the cheap yeah.
Crystals, antistatic foam, power conditioners, powercords..
footers.. pigtails
Main thing is many of the expensive aftermaarket $$$ tweaks are based on dirt cheap ordinary item tweaks (which IMO work just as well as the fancy versions)
elizabeth
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Brass AC plugs add noise to the sound I can hear..
After i switched to all Furutech Duplex (all pure copper) and all my powercords have plating. Anyway, I tried a Wattgate brass plug powercord and immediately noticed a mist like grunge in the upper midrange. Remove brass, gone, in there, remove gone.
So unplated brass in the AC adds grunge to the music in a system with none in the duplex.
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