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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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stringreen
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they did absolutely no difference in my system....all Ayre, Vandersteehn

agisthos
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I like Audioquests new fog lifters, as they are unobtrusive. I just wish the plastic was clear, not black.

Audioquest claims their testing showed lifters need to be minimum 15cm high to be effective. Note that almost all lifters audiophiles use are well below that.

kodak805
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I use fingertip towel rings. There is no way for the cable to fall off the support because it it threaded through the rings.. The base is weighted so it will not fall over. The weight of the cable makes it self stabilizing as well.

 

kodak805
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Target has a good selection of finger tip towel rings:

https://www.target.com/p/mdesign-metal-fingertip-towel-holder-for-bath-vanity-countertop/-/A-81209570?preselect=81209569#lnk=sametab

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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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