I am on a concrete engineered slab, no carpet under my cables, engineered hardwood. Made zero difference though I love they way my cheap ass Aliexpress lifters look and make swiffering the floor easy.
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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@rodman99999 Thank you for the links, very interesting and enlightening.
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Maybe a survey of the group might be helpful: - have you listened to cable risers? Yes - what was your impression? waste of time and resources. - if you own them, are you on the first generation. Or, have you "upgraded" to more expensive items? On my current 2 system (tubed and SS) and last system I am done chasing the marketing BS. - what is your investment in cable risers? $250.00 - if you haven’t tried them, what is holding you back? Tried and they did nothing! |