Synergistic Research Cable Risers?


  Recenty Synergistic  research  brought out some cable risers.  https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/cable-risers/

  The audio press said they made one of the biggest differences when taken out of the system, then re installed back in. Does anyone have first hand experience with these ?

  That being said, they seem like quite a bit of money for what you get, however if they  work at improving the sound it would be worth it. I do use Synergistic products  which have made a definite improvement in sound but am quite skeptical on this product.
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Showing 6 responses by fleschler

I haven’t read all three pages of posts yet and will delete if necessary but these are not ordinary cable risers. Note that they have a red ECT looking device on each one. This is probably the reason that using these risers focus the sound. Whether or not they act like the Black Box which was a failure in my system (cut off highs at 8Khz and above) I don’t know. I plan on trying them out in the future. I gave back the Black Box.

P.S. I 100% disagree with drbarney’s conclusion because there is an art to constructing cables that is currently not quantifiable and cannot be test equipment verified.  The sonic differences are obvious as I have been a cable tester for a manufacturer for two decades.  
I read all the posts.  +1 goose.  Without the 32 HFTs in my custom listening room I would need extensive quadradic diffusion paneling on the front and rear walls.  The side and ceiling surfaces have extensive absorption paneling.  The sound in this room is comparable to at least $250,000 in electronics despite using a 30 year old $2500 pair of Legacy Focus speakers.  (The entire room cost $160,000 to build which eliminated the need for bass traps).  However, the Shakti Hallographs do make a more significant benefit in imaging.  The HFTs provide a huge soundstage and focus the sound.  

In my previous listening room, I had underground speaker wire conduit installed prior to pouring the concrete.  The wire sounded much better under the ground than laying on top of carpet (25' speaker runs).  I decided that inexpensive cable risers were at least adequate on the new build with no reason for anyone to walk near the speakers (previous room had 42,000 LPs/CDs/78s-so I would have to walk over the wires occasionally if they weren't underground).
@rspyder You said that you have had SR cable risers for several years.  I thought the SR cable risers with the ECT like device is new.  What do your cable risers look like?  Are they the same?

@tyray  Thanks,  I'm going to buy those right now as they look superior to the wood and rubber pucks I'm using.  The SR cable risers benefit (or not) from the ECT devices rather than the stand itself.
@ozzy  Based on your limited experience with the SR risers, it is apparent that something is wrong with the SR Youtube demonstration which indicates a vast change in sound with only 3 risers per channel, installed and removed.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVIKxulyLNY
The question is, which HFT or ECT SR is using on there cable risers.  Maybe it was made specifically for cable risers and unavailable separately.
I second Frank's post.  I've tried some SR products that didn't work for me despite their claims that they need HFTs to work (I use 32 HFTs instead of elaborate/expensive/large quadradic diffusion paneling on front and rear walls).  I also use his upscale fuses and duplex outlets.  They are cost effective for the sonic improvement.  My cable manufacturing friend who derides all tweaks was convinced that the difference in standard versus blue fuses is amazing and chose to retrofit his fuses with circuit breakers (sounding equivlent to blue fuse sonic improvements).  I found out recently that due to the design of my cables and extension power boxes that a certain tweak does not work at all despite it working in Frank's and 40 others systems quite nicely.  Tweaks are just as system dependent as amps mating to speakers, amps to pre-amps, cartridges to tonearms, etc.