Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference?

This thread is better than beers.  Better even than self-indulgence.

I say show me the measurement.  NOT a subjective impossible to quantify.. "my ears or my ear "training" or my sense of hearing are more evolved an better than yours" like most claim.

Careful waving around demands like that.  Asking an audiophile who tests claims purely subjectively to show objective evidence is like raising a cross to a vampire ;-) 


(Especially many of the tweak-manufacturers, where you get pseudo-scientific sounding descriptions in the sales pitch, but in place of objective measurable evidence for those claims, you tend to get marketing and anecdotes.   Which makes business sense, given the rich market resource they have of largely subjectivity-oriented audiophiles whose methods of 'testing' the claims allow for all the bias necessary to hear what the marketing pitch suggests.  And I count myself among those who have been influenced this way).

This thread is better than beers. Better even than self-indulgence.

I experimented with using beer cans as cable risers.  I would drink a beer then used the empty can as a riser.   And guess what?  By the time I finished it worked.

"Roger Russell/speakerwire"....good article.  I wonder if rebar would sound better than coat hangars?    

Instead of a discussion, it takes it's usual tack and becomes open mike night, again. All the negative comments gloss over the fact that all of this can be done on the cheap and anyone can try it. Red herrings abound as valid points and dog piling ensues. 

Carry on my tin eared friends
There's no peace when you are done
Close your mind to how things sound
You'll still cry all the more👍

All the best,
Nonoise