Synergistic Research Cable Risers?

heaudio123 ...

Agreed. Without engineers, as weird as they are, we wouldn't have the technology that we enjoy today. They put the satellites in space that allow us to talk on our cell phones. They design our infrastructure. Even traffic control requires engineers. Without their planning, our streets would be a chaotic mess. So, in their own sense, they are American heroes too.  

By the way, P.T. Barnum was a promotional genius. I fail, however, to see what he has to do with engineers. Please elaborate. Thanks ... :-)

Frank

“If a product is not promoted something terrible happens. Nothing.” - PT Barnum

“Never wise up a chump and you can’t cheat an honest man.” - WC Fields

“Every crowd has a silver lining.” - PT Barnum

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.

Just found this thread and I got curious... Below are things I did and experiences I had. I apologize in advance if my experiences were trivial...

First thing...

Lifted all cables off the ground with kids bike helmets, egg crates, small boxes. Most cables were touching each other. Every cable were at least 2 inches off the floor.
What I heard...

Loss little smoothness, warmth, but gained a little focus, clarity, transparency. No more added air or resolution, just tiny changes in the presentation. Details were easier to hear. Took me a few minutes to realize the trade off was good.

Second thing I did...

Put some small boxes and very light weight golf balls between cables. Every cable was separated by at least an inch. Even my interconnects were separated. My USB wasn’t touching anything either.

What I heard...

More instrument separation, more focus, easier to spot instruments within the orchestra. Every instrument sounded more convincing.

Realism was at a different level. Clarity was amazing. There was much much more depth. Sound stage set back a little but felt much more real.
Music was more dynamic. Sometime you get speed that made music sound fake. This improvement made music sound real.
Over all, just more realism. You may not feel the difference right the way, but after a while, you will realize realism. I sat through recordings that I found to sound annoying before.

My conclusion...

I am unable to say anything about Ted’s cable risers. Five and a half minutes worth of work made enough differences for me. Before buying any cable risers, try getting your cable off the ground and separating all of them.

Disclaimer...

1. I have Oranges fuses in my integrated and DAC. They were amazing, much better than the Blues. Ted did something right.

2. I don’t like SR because I had pricing and delivery hiccups with their dealers. SR also has not acknowledged my complaint which was sent before the breakout.

3. I want to try Ted’s cable riser to see if they worth $400.

Be safe everyone and enjoy the music!

For some reason, I could be wrong but I was always extra weary of SR. I demoed their speaker cables and all this blue filter red filter add on stuff gave me a snake oil ish impression.