Best DIY tweak?

Excluding equipment, room acoustics, cables and shelving, I would say running dedicated 20 amp circuits with a dedicated isolated ground, independent of the house ground!! then clean cable dressing, then getting cables off of the ground.

Replace steel speaker driver screws with solid brass screws; dramatic results!

Check out the Virtual Dynamics "Episodes" site.

This one's ez and costs zip.

Sit in your usual listening position. Interlock your fingers and put them behind your head at ear level, so you're sitting there like some big shot executive. Elbows should be pointed at the outside edge of your speakers.

You can A/B this (hands up, then down).

Hear the difference?

A good ear cleaning and some of British Columbia's finest exports would top my list.

Oh yeah, a nubile 20 year old hottie to snuggle up to would improve the experience, too. Just don't tell my wife...

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Black marker tweak your CD's.