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

bdp24, you misunderstood me, that was heavily tongue in cheek. I do believe I am on your side of the argument.
Williewonka, there are three camps here. Those that are right, those that are wrong and then there is geoFFkait who has no idea what side he is on. 

Writing something down does not make it true. Sound-stage is predominantly from large scale effects in the recording, the speakers (namely dispersion, smoothness of frequency response, and lack of significant phase irregularities), and how that interacts with the room.  Don't need to trust me on that, we know that sound-stages comes from directional / distance cues, and they are dominated by the currently loudest signals.


Very subtle things, 100db down, heck even 60-70db down from the signal have little impact on any perception of sound-stage. Anything that "collapses" the sound-stage is a gross significant change, and that is never going to come from cable elevators.  Far more likely is what prof alluded to.

Slew rate is defined by volume and bandwidth, as is complexity. No miracles there.

teo_audio1,292 posts12-18-2019 11:37am

You have to ask yourself, do you really think the sound stage, which is almost all a factor of recording and speaker/room interaction, would magically collapse due to some exceedingly low level interaction between a cable and the floor?

All the subtle information we look for with our ears, in a recording, is low in level..so yes..I would expect that the subtle and easy to disturb high slew rate impossibly intertwined micro signals involved in our limits of human resolution ..might benefit from some careful handling.

I don’t take sides, I run independent. You don’t have to be the fastest wildebeest on the Kalahari, just faster than the slowest one.

@mijosten, okay man, my mistake! By the way, my post was double-layered; I’m goofing on audiophilia, not cable risers themselves. I avoid the question altogether by having all my cords short enough that none CAN lay on the floor. They are suspended in air, the best dielectric.