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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?

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ghdprentice
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@squared80

A lot of folks start out skeptical about differences in sound quality. Then they upgrade or swap something that should not matter and the difference is simply stunning. The uninformed “that can’t make a difference” goes out the window.

I noticed your system is not shown under your ID, and this is not your first post basically stating you know more than the rest of us and we are all delusional. It would be helpful to understand the systems you have owned, your experience level with high end sound quality and currently have and what experience you have with cable lifters.

ghdprentice
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OP,

Thanks for the feedback on your test. This is why lifters have been around for at least thirty or forty years. I got mine around then… ceramic electrical… were relatively inexpensive back then and are a permanent part of my system. All this little stuff adds up. 

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