Cable supports on the cheap...


Has anyone in audio tweak land tried using post tension cable chairs or rebar chairs for audio cable supports?

audi-owe

On a budget?

  • take a trip to a dollar store
  • buy childrens alphabet bricks e.g. A, B, C, .....Z
  • buy some craft sticks
  • hot glue a piece of the craft stick to opposite sides to stop the cable sliding off the block
  • if your cables are heavy/stiff, then glue the block onto a 2" or 3" ceramic backsplash tile to stop it tipping over

Nice thing about this solution, being wood they are non conductive and non capacitive - zero ipact on the signal

If desired, add the foam strip as mentioned above or use a rubber band across the two craft stick uprights to support the cables

I decided to try these because I have man-made fiber broadloom on the floor and figured this may impact the capacitive effect of the overall cable performance - lifting them off the broadloom mitigates that problem.

Since I was not conviced it would have an impact I opted for a very affordable solution. They are still there and seem to do the trick.

People are "amused" at yet another crazy (but very affordable) solution

Regards - Steve

Use egg cartons. Shaped perfectly and everyone has'em.

Take the eggs out first.

I have found that when my system was in the basement, I could easily hear a difference ,  but now that my system is upstairs, it makes no difference at all!  Dollar stores are a great place for finding what you need.  you can use pretty much anything that’s not metal to lift you speaker cables off the floor.