Cable Elevators - What do you use?

Teajay: To be perfectly honest, if the improvement was there it was not enough to make me sit up and take notice. I feel better having them off the floor but maybe I need to go the next step and get the power cords off the floor. . . . More Yogurt cups!!

I want to know what others have experienced and what medium of elevators they used. Yogurt cups may not be the most scientific approach????

Interesting comments all - First, different flavors of yogurt do not seem to make any difference. Elizabeth's comments are poignant and, I believe, statements of fact. How all that affects a system is the question.

Thank you to those that shared how they approached cable elevation. What I did not ask specifically is - are you elevating only the speaker cables? ICs? Power Cords? all or some? The only things left on my floor are the power cords to the monos and APC. Both monos and the APC are connected to their own individual dedicated 20 amp circuits. The pre/pro, DVD machines, TV and semi-silent silent fan are all plugged into the back of the APC.

I started this quest for information because I cannot get rid of an intermittent hum in the right channel. The system will play flawlessly for several days and then suddenly break into an unwanted hum. Among a dozen other things, elevated the cables was something I had not yet tried.

So far, still no luck but it does look a lot cleaner behind the system!

Your comments are interesting, humorous (in some cases) and helpful. I appreciate all of them.

Well, haven't I heard it all now!! I respect the opinions of those that use them and those that don't - there is no such thing as the perfect system, if there was we would all have it - however, there are perfect systems in the ear of the beholder.

BTW, for you yogurt cup users - To maintain a consistent sound throughout the system I only use one flavor AND the ones I use are Lala Brand from Mexico. That's right kids, imported yogurt cups for that perfect tweak. It should be noted that they are painted flat black to mellow out the bass. Bright colors such as day-glo orange will cause the treble to get excessively bright and tends to lend a hint of Latina to all music selections.

Please do continue with your comments - I take the serious ones to heart and hope other readers are gaining insight as well. I have a good laugh over the remaining 80%. All are appreciated

As a follow-up to those that participated in this thread - Not only did I elevate the speaker cables and ICs as previously mentioned, I just elevated the power cords on the mono amps and put pipe insulation around the power cords for the APC and Processor since they are still on the floor. THEN, boy had I overlooked this, there is approximately 12 feet of excess SPDIF digital cable that runs under the floor from the iMac to the processor. That excess cable was coiled up under the computer desk and laying all over the surge protector. By installing three small cup hooks on the back of the computer desk I was able to wind the cable (very loose) around the hooks twice and up to the computer. Now it is off the floor, not coiled, and intersects power cords that hang down the back of the desk at sharp right angles. Now, for the first time ever in my tweaking endeavors have I noticed a distinct improvement in the sound - The music is much clearer than before. Oh, I should mention also, I eliminated the very short Toslink cable that ran from the back of the iMac to a Toslink/SPDIF converter and replaced it with a USB cable that goes to the same converter (also a USB/SPDIF converter). Maybe that was the big difference but whatever, elevating those cables, separating ICs and Speaker cables from cords, and the switch to USB has combined to make a big difference that I wouldn't have believed had I not heard it for myself.

Thanks for all of your input!

Elizabeth - you are sick!! . . . but I laughed anyway!

Hevac1: That was a good buy - what better isolators are there???