Keeping cables off the floor

I like the napkin ring idea myself. I wonder if you could find a cheap heavy coordinating base to glue to the bottom of each one (like little blocks or flat rounds of trophy marble or ceramic) and skip lining the ring itself as they should be elevated enough off the floor by the base. I live in LA as well and used to order (in the 70's and early 80's) from a place called Bemak Plasics. They used to be on Santa Monica Blvd. but either moved or went under. I think that are wifes must know each other. I mentioned placing architecheral balls in the uppermost corners of the living room and dining area (to diffuse low frequencies) and my wife has been bugging me to complete the project ever since. She wants to paint them different colors. She has always wanted crown molding, which I refuse to put up with a cottage cheese ceiling and feels that the balls would trim the room in a way. I have not gotten around to researching what material they should be made of, which is the holdup.

Dekay, the place I go to is on Colorado Blvd in the mostly industrial part of Santa Monica (times, they are a changin' ever since Sony moved in, though). Can't remember the name, just know how to get there.

Maybe we're on to something. The napkin rings with a solid base as you've suggested and an acrylic ring lining the hole. I'm calling my patent attorney now ;-)

Sounds like we've had similar interior design experiences with our better halves. I found a cane store that went out of business (now that's a winning business concept) and wanted to buy all of the wooden canes they had left, paint them in bright colors and mount them on painted canvases. Good visually, (well,interesting anyway), and nice acoustic treatments to boot. Shot down on that one.

Jim: Well we can't win them all or any sometimes. It must be a CA thing, we made drapes out of souviner table cloths for the spare bedroom (anything goes). I searched the Audio Asylum site Cable Forum using "cable and floor" and "cable and carpet" and came up with quite a few hits. Probably should have tried the Tweaker's Asylum as well but the screens were giving me a headache. One comment said that polystyrene foam was a good material to use and that wood was not (there are claims that wood floors are worse than carpets. I will have to try lining a wooden cable channel box that I placed under the rug at a doorway with polystyrene and see if it opens up the sound even more. I need to pull it out anyway to chisel out another half inch of the subfloor in order to make it flush. Anyway, check out AA for more info than we have mustered here so far.

So true, Dekay.

glad to hear a couple of left coasters amit that this whole thread is yet another example of californication. why not just buy the audio purist connections, drain the liquid and fill with helium? hyrogen-filled weather ballons might also work to haul your cables off the floor, tho there might be an associated acoustic problem, not to mention your inability to find your listening chair or, worse, the so-called "graf zeppelin potential."