Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil


  •  I'm looking at some porcelain cable lifters to get some power and speaker cable up off the floor.  Does raising the cables off the floor really make a difference? It's going to be about 200 bucks for 10 of them. Thanks.  
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It's ironic that after crushing several snakes and boiling them to extract oil, I've gelatinized it into damping pucks. Ironic. Makes a great dessert topping also. Win win.
Note that if you play an instrument like a guitar (uke, mandolin, violin) you should play while standing on some sort of spikes unless you are so fat you can absorb the extraneous sound before it goes into the floor.
If you're actually worried about seismic frequencies worming their way into your rig, you possibly need to increase your meds or get another hobby (Balsa wood ship modeling? Needle point? Live concert sound mixing?). I know, to geoffkait my silly Pro Audio/musician background renders my opinions as irrelevant as a bag of crystals, but even with that handicap I try to get by.

Typos…I hate typos…"seismic of simply" should have been "seismic OR simply"…
Geoffkait has just noted many of the reasons why one should give little to no credibility to, or be bothered by, any alleged or imagined audio playback issues caused by tiny amounts of vibration (seismic of simply vibes of bewildered astonishment aimed your way by others) making its way into your home gear heap. Well done.
Don’t cables get dusty anyway? I use my trusty dust brush vacuum attachment that sucks very bit of dust off of any cable it approaches, depositing it in a basement bin where I can extract it later and knit a sweater out of it. The last thing I need when vacuuming around my cables is having to put back a pile of tiny cable trestles or duck around fishing wire suspended from the ceiling, unless it's being used for actual fishing (unlikely).
The world is full of natural vibration that fortunately has so little effect on the performance of sound gear as to be irrelevant to the enjoyment of music. That reality is likely NOT over geoffokait's head, but his head is so encumbered by imagined audio demons it seems likely he can't grasp that concept, or he's simply afraid this could impact his "magic bag 'o crystals" business. 
Cables, if they’re in the same room as the speakers, will vibrate anyway…lifted or not, unless maybe they’re completely encased in venting ducts packed with spring loaded mattress foam (I’m selling those for $1,552 a linear inch). I won’t put little bridges under my cables because I think it’s simply another lame pseudo tweak, and vibration to a normal degree (earthquakes, nearby mortar explosions, and starting an unmuffled motorcycle near your rig all would qualify as "abnormal" vibration) does’t bother anything except the anal retentive brains of those who firmly think it does…do you realize there are cables in your speaker boxes being subjected to massive amounts of allegedly dangerous vibration? Those poor little defenseless wires saying "Hep me…hep me"...