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?
Yep made some from scrap maple for a fun experiment. Used them to lift and separate my speaker’s built in sub power cords and speaker cables off the wood floor. After several hours of comparison listening I have to say the experiment was a success. My wife and kids asked me what i was doing now. After my explanation they rolled their eyes and we had one great time making fun of my efforts and laughing their a&$’s off. Success! I couldn’t hear any difference on my system.
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@salectric If it feels like risers are making that much of a perceivable difference ( leaning out bass, glare in the treble, etc?!), there’s other sht messed up in your rig/affecting consistency. |
Each riser I have tried made the bass too lean and some of them introduced a glare in the treble. The risers I tried were all household objects like wood blocks, cardboard tubes, 3 sticks arranged like a teepee, foam, etc. Maybe if I had spent $1500 on them I would have reacted differently, but at this point I am quite content to leave my cables on the carpet. No risers for me thank you. |
