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Cable elevators

My Saturday hifi tweaking involved digging out the family’s box of wooden building blocks and using them to elevate my speaker cables off the floor. Previously under an area carpet on a wood floor. Mc 601s to SF Amati with Wireworld speaker cables (to be replaced with Cardas). 
 

The result—mind you the system is playing really well right now thanks to my new Cardas interconnects—is greater clarity (I think), sound stage, and texture. This is definitely about wringing out the last ounce of the system and maybe I’m imagining the improvement. I don’t think I’d spend any money on buying risers, but what the hell why not use the old building block. Looks dopey and the family laughs at me, but dang does the system sound amazing.

Anyone else play with risers/elevators?

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digsmithd
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Ha.. my wife bemoaned me trying them...Mind you the first shot at it i used dollar store tumblrs that i had enough to cover cables.All the while she was making dinner peeing and moaning "blah blah"....Grabbed a beer and played first disk.She couldnt believe it made that much difference.She was quiet the rest of night 😉

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nonoise
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My system audio rack is close enough to the front wall that I just use 3M wall hooks. While trying to figure out the lay of the cable, raising and lowering it see where it would fit against the wall, the sound improved with every inch I raised the cable, all the while I was standing to the side of my speaker. 

It was so obvious and immediate even at that position. I kept raising it and found no benefit past the 6" mark so that's how I hung them (no puns intended).

All the best,
Nonoise

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vair68robert
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I once read a recommendation from Mapleshade Audio to keep cables elevated at least 8" (? it could have been 6" ) off the ground , 

@nonoise and others interested in the wall hanging Mapleshade makes good looking wall cable holders .

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nonoise
10,611 posts
 

@vair68robert 

Thanks, I'll look into that as the 3M wall hangers do look a mite cheesy. 

All the best,
Nonoise

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