Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference?

Raised speaker cables off the floor works for me. Give it a few days or so and then see if you hear a difference when you return the speaker cables back to the floor.

It’s the same for electronics. Raise them off the floor. I-SO-LATE them. Hel-loo! You might try rubbing everything down with Bounce! anti-static towelettes. 

Get them off the floor on good cable holders asap for a big improvement in sound quality.

audiozenology68 posts12-18-2019 8:23amIt is us that holds the charge when we get shocked, not the carpet. If your humidity is really low, that could be having a real effect on the sound (more attenuation at high frequencies). Get a humidifier. Cable elevators can’t fix humidity.

>>>I wooden be too sure about that. Objects hold static electric charge, some more than others. Human beans 🔜attract🔚 surplus electrons from objects with static charge due to electric potential. Like lightning. That’s kind of the whole point of getting the cables elevated from the carpet. That’s also why it is a good idea to rub CDs and cables and cords down with Bounce anti-static towelettes or use a de-ionizer. A humidifier just makes it harder for static electric charges to build up on objects.

Never heard a difference.

As to the horrifying influence of speaker cables touching things:  I moved from a variety of speaker cables when my source components were in the same room as my speakers, to moving my source components to another room.   This required a 35 foot run of 10awg speaker cable, run down along ceiling, under floor, snaking through shag rug to speaker.   No sonic difference detectable at all.  Sounds exactly as detailed, pure...all the nice descriptors....as before.  That's just my own anecdotal evidence, though.


If all this "cables can't go touching things (what's that shielding for again?) stuff were true, the home theater realm would be suffering terribly, since even in the highest-end installs you have cables running through walls etc.  And yet state of the art sound is often achieved this way.  Aside from generally well-known cautions about how to choose and install cables (e.g. you want to avoid many cables running in parallel to power lines etc), this hand-wringing about "I can't let my cables touch things" is mostly reserved for the subjectivist audiophile world, and those selling products to them. 


Of course, if you are in the "if I do X to my system and think I hear a difference it's true" camp, many people will "hear" a difference in virtually any suggested tweak.  So it's up to you what type of "evidence" is sufficient.