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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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pindac
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For my Speaker Cables I use Cotton Thread to suspend them.

Does it improve them 'no comment' as I have not A/B compared them against the Coiled on the Floor option.

When I took the time to organise my Interconnect and Power Cables and neaten the way they are laid out, I recollect the Sonic having a perception that it was a little more transparent. The impression made was enough to keep me mindful of maintaining a Tidy Loom.

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pindac
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It can cost pennies to lift Cables from being directly in contact with anything.

I will take a wild guess and suggest my Lifted Speaker Cable method, took approx' 30 minutes to achieve, inclusive or searching for items I never search for, i.e Cotton Reel and  Drawing Pin.

I would say the cost incurred (Speaker Cable not Included) £00.03p.

That is the same type of cost I try and generate when buying used CD's at a Yard Sale.   

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pindac
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Looking at the images, the Speaker is as noticeably elevated of the floor as is the Cables.

The Speaker elevated will never be met with same contention as the notion to elevated the Cables.

There is a certain elegance and interest formed when seeing the Cables rested upon their various methods used to produce a podium support. 

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