You are on the right track, they need to be up off the carpet. Or floor, whatever that happens to be. Doesn't seem to matter. Several inches will do, and you can use just about anything from paper or plastic cups to blocks of wood. Really good electrical insulators seem to work better which is probably why....
Cable Elevators are the best I have tried. https://www.reddragonaudio.com/products/cable-elevators?variant=249017132 After buying mine I noticed they are really just the ceramic insulators used on top of telephone poles all across the country! They slap a sticker on the part, and a zero to the price, and box them up n sets of 8 which it usually takes 3 per speaker leaving 2 to place under a power cord or whatever else might be laying on the floor.
These things work so good I did a demo for Chris Brady one time, kept the music playing the whole time as I removed them from one side then the other then put them back again. He said he could hear the sound stage collapse as I removed them and come back again as they went back in.
Cable Elevators are the best I have tried. https://www.reddragonaudio.com/products/cable-elevators?variant=249017132 After buying mine I noticed they are really just the ceramic insulators used on top of telephone poles all across the country! They slap a sticker on the part, and a zero to the price, and box them up n sets of 8 which it usually takes 3 per speaker leaving 2 to place under a power cord or whatever else might be laying on the floor.
These things work so good I did a demo for Chris Brady one time, kept the music playing the whole time as I removed them from one side then the other then put them back again. He said he could hear the sound stage collapse as I removed them and come back again as they went back in.