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Cable elevators - conventional wisdom wrong?

Reluctant to put any considerable money in them, the reasons for using cable elevators seemed intuitively correct to me: decouple cables mechanically from vibration and insulate them from the carpet's static. I have therefore built cheap elevators myself using Lego building blocks. (Plastic with a more or less complex internal structure; moreover, there is enormous shaping flexibility, for instance you can also build gates with suspended strings on which to rest the cables)
In their advertisement/report on the Dark Field elevators, Shunyata now claim that conventional elevators are actually (very?) detrimental in that they enable a strong static field to build up between cable and floor causing signal degradation.
Can anyone with more technical knowledge than I have assess how serious the described effect is likely to be? Would there, theoretically, be less distortion with cables lying on the floor? Has anyone actually experienced this?
karelfd

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mrtennis
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hi tbg:

i applaud your ecumenical attitude. one's own experiences are more significant when making a purchasing something.

there are so many variables involved in subjective judgments, that they are usually unreliable.

conflicting opinions , especially where contradictions are present are almost impossible to resolve by a third party.
mrtennis
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i use foam under interconnects, power cords, and speaker cables. hard objects harden the sound.
mrtennis
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what is the consequence of leaving the cables on the floor ?

i use boulder's foam elevators. i'm not sure they are made anymore. i don't experience a loss in dynamics.
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