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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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theflattire
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In ground wire radials on antennas, raising the wire off the earth ground will actually change the characteristics of the antenna, ergo the wire.  What electrical change, I don't know and have never measured the actual wire.  I do know it affects SWR.

How that translates to speaker cable, I'm not sure but under certain conditions I wouldn't doubt it affects sound, especially in longer runs.

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