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Cable elevators

My Saturday hifi tweaking involved digging out the family’s box of wooden building blocks and using them to elevate my speaker cables off the floor. Previously under an area carpet on a wood floor. Mc 601s to SF Amati with Wireworld speaker cables (to be replaced with Cardas). 
 

The result—mind you the system is playing really well right now thanks to my new Cardas interconnects—is greater clarity (I think), sound stage, and texture. This is definitely about wringing out the last ounce of the system and maybe I’m imagining the improvement. I don’t think I’d spend any money on buying risers, but what the hell why not use the old building block. Looks dopey and the family laughs at me, but dang does the system sound amazing.

Anyone else play with risers/elevators?

w123ale

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bolong
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What's Up With Risers?

bolong
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You know "psychological" can be a two way street.

bolong
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Multiple risers are not necessary. If you have enough space vertically, one tall riser will lift the entire cable off the floor.

bolong
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My cables are suspended by the wood Venetian blinds directly behind my component shelving. The blinds are shuttered to keep out the sun from the double glass doors that used to be one of several passage ways to an outside deck. Now forever blocked by His Master's Voice. The blinds when closed (but still ripply) also act to break up acoustic reflections on that back wall. There is just one point of cable contact with each blind.

And now you know what a tolerant wife I have.

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