Cable Elevators - What do you use?

Rsjm80
The placebo effect works very well with this type of tweak..I want to hear the difference so it must be there?

Puerto, I use Cable Elevators in my rig and "Yes" they do make a difference for me. It helped to smooth out the sound and took juuust a bit of edge from the responce too, and for me I heard the difference right away. I'm also thinking of incorperating some Shunyadas into the mix just to get the best of bot worlds. If anyone has (or is doing this now) please let me know what you think.

I tried using them, but it made absolutely no difference at all.

So the 'science of risers is clearly there

Elizabeth we have to stop saying the 'science is in' when it clearly is not...IN.Please summit the study if the science is in. There is much to much deceptions in the industry. The common method to sell such lies is to find someone(s) willing to state that they heard a difference. Such statements are then used for advertising.

CableClamps available at most hardware stores, home depot has some as well. They cost about a dollar each, they are adjustable clamp to the cable and lift it far enough to eliminate any static influence. If you have not seen them they open similar to a handcuff. If elevating the cable makes a difference or not, this is the cheapest way to do this that I have found.

You just gotta' find something to keep 'em high enough up to keep the Dust Bunnies away. I use the Cable Elevators. They are electric pole ceramic insulators with a rubber base and their logo on the side. I did not notice a sonic diff (YMMV), but I'm sure there is less wear and tear on the cables and it makes it easier to route and separate the cables.

Puerto, have you noticed differences in sound using different flavor yogurt cups? I would think Strawberry/Banana would work best.

Seriously though, no room for elevators in my house....I make my cables take the stairs.....it keeps their bottom end and mid-band from getting flabby. Ok, I'm done.

Cheers,
John

I did not pen this but I believe it is about the best written on this topic.

There is a whole scientific process for developing a method to measure a cause, then a process for developing a device to accurately calculate the degree of the cause which includes calibrating the device to a certain standard to ensure one is receiving an accurate measurement. Then the whole process should approved by an independent peer review.

So, let us apply this principle to elevating cables off the floor. First we need to ask what type of devices are being used to measure the cause and effect. What is the method of testing, and has that method faced and been confirmed by a peer review. I have not seen or heard of any such research, has anyone else?

Next, let us apply some common logic. If there is an effect, the cause must be coming from the floor. One would not lift their cables into the air, exposing the cables to more air, if the cause was airborne.

What is in the flooring? Something in the varnish applied to wood floors? Perhaps static electricity form the carpet? Electric cables under the flooring? And what if you have a concrete floor? Could it be the steel reinforcing bar in the concrete? Is it the vibration from the speakers? If so, would they not still be effected by by airborne vibrations? They all claim an effect, but where is there scientific proof of the cause?

However, if one has ultra expensive cables named after snakes, cats, mountains, or Norse gods, designed to protect the flow of current from all known effects, and hand braided by child labor, well... those cables will never live up to their potential unless elevated.

Now examine the materials used for these lifters. I have seen wood, glass, ceramics, secret metal alloys and compound polymers, and even little disks with embedded tuning forks! I once saw a system with special inert screw eyes for the ceiling, with a special monofilament that dropped to a wooden clip for holding the cables off the floor. The simple device even had a patent pending, someone actually applied for a patent for a piece of string attached to a clothes pin! Of course, all were designed from extensive research, and each will claim in aggressive, enterprising language that all their competitors are bogus, only they make the proper product.

More nonsense: How do the manufacturers know exactly what height to elevate the cords, should it be 3, 4, 8, or 12 inches? At what height will the perceived effect be neutralized?

I am waiting for the day when someone sitting on a large supply of gas tanks decides to market oxygen to audiophiles. We should all know that only in an oxygen enriched room will all the distortion effects be neutralized.

I recall reading a product brochure many years ago by the audio equipment manufacturer Threshold. They claimed their circuits corrected for distortion at 100kHz, because distortion there can trickle down and magnify distortion at 30kHz. All well and good, but I doubt any human alive could hear the results

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I was told it's Thyssen Krupp but admittedly it was a European gentleman that made the comment.

Teajay: To be perfectly honest, if the improvement was there it was not enough to make me sit up and take notice. I feel better having them off the floor but maybe I need to go the next step and get the power cords off the floor. . . . More Yogurt cups!!

I want to know what others have experienced and what medium of elevators they used. Yogurt cups may not be the most scientific approach????

The result was a perceived reduction in background
noise I hadn't noticed present before.

If you hadn't noticed the noise before,how did you perceive a reduction in it?I'm not doubting you,just trying to understand the statement.

otis makes the best cable elevators

I use CD jewel cases.

Based on a suggestion from the DakiOM site I experimented with suspending all of my cables - AC, interconnect and speaker - from the rack with cheap cotton string using small sections of foam water pipe insulation to keep cables from touching each other and the rack and I've been very pleased with the result. Big improvement over the ceramic isolators i used previously.
The result was a perceived reduction in background noise I hadn't noticed present before. Total cost about $3.00 USD

Puerto, what you did not share was did your home made cable elevators make any sonic difference at all. I have tried at least three different companies and none of them made any difference, good or not so good, as far as I could tell in my system. Some swear they make a profound change, I'll bet your going to get a lot of posts on your thread saying so, I just never had that experience.