Cable elevators

I don't have any knowledge in this area, perhaps others have good advice. Potentially though, if you don't use them and cables, powersnakes, etc....then are very close to each other, you could be impacted by EM field interference.

Using them as an elevation and separation mechanism might then be better than not.

Absolutely,...that at least as I understand it is the goal. Many of us would love also to get to a place where we have the mono-blocks of sufficient quality near enough to each speaker on all channels to make that happen!

I agree with Walkelin, Digsmithd and others. Ceramic works best in my system.

The Mapleshade dowel/tripods were inexpensive but impractical for larger or heavier speaker cables. Others have used them effectively; I have to admit they were not easily setup here with my Shunyata powersnakes and AQ Volcano wire (could be user error...)

I'm using ceramic elevators from Precision Audio;

http://www.musicdirect.com/products/detail.asp?sku=AELEVI

at $20/each, they are reasonable, look great and give a noticeable difference in sound buy getting my power and speaker cables off a rather nasty large dielectric (carpet)