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Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil

  •  I'm looking at some porcelain cable lifters to get some power and speaker cable up off the floor.  Does raising the cables off the floor really make a difference? It's going to be about 200 bucks for 10 of them. Thanks.  
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nonoise
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@gbmcleod 
Like others here have stated, thank you for your last few posts. It's so refreshing and uplifting to know your history and endeavors and that everything matters, despite the naysayers harangues. 
(They seemed to have developed into a new breed of trolls.) 👹

All the best,
Nonoise
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bdp24
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The Townshend Pods are not simply damped springs, they are much more sophisticated than that. Their design is explained and effectiveness demonstrated in the video Max posted on You Tube.
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geoffkait
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Sophisticated? Well, excuse me! They look like springs covered with rubber.  
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swampwalker
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I guess I am lucky to avoid this form of audiophilia nervosa.  My speaker cables are short and suspended in the air between the amp and the speaker (Connections up high on the speaker).
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bdp24
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Watch the Townshend You Tube video, silly! Max explains the Pod, which behaves like a bellows, iirc. I would watch it again, but my computer has a virus that prevents me from doing so.

Me too, swampwater. The Eminent Technology LFT-8b has it’s binding posts mounted on the top of it’s bass bin, and my power amp is at about the same height, on the top shelf of a stand, the speaker cable suspended between the two. Same with my Quad ESL's, which are on Arcici stands. Have to check the tightness of the amp and speaker posts every once in a while!

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