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

I haven’t tried lifting my cables for well on 25 years. When I did, I heard a small difference and thought nothing of it. After reading this thread with all the usual suspects and sides, I tried doing it again, using some Yoplait Oui glass jars.

All it took was 7 of them to lift my speaker cables off the carpet. All I needed to hear, to hear a difference, was about 10-20 seconds into a well known CD to hear the difference, and ended up listening to the whole thing. Cleaner, clearer, period. Removing the Oui jars brought back the veil I had prior to using the jars. More of a smearing, actually.

No cost. Simple to replicate. Trust your ears and leave the arguments to the know it alls.

All the best,
Nonoise

I got your point andy. I think you missed the point of my reply. ;-)

I supposed you have your point, but I think at least I was right about the self-indulgence part although that's not the only thing.  But anyway, you have the right to exercise your "right".  

andy,

We all come here to read other people's points of view and express our own as it may be.  Why would your many posts, or anyone else's,  be any less "self-indulgent?"   Seems a distinction without distinction.

Though you also seem to be saying I'm purposefully being illogical (and for that strange reason being "indulgent.")   If that's what you are saying, can you show me an example of where I've been illogical in this thread?

To spell out a point that seemed to be missed:  My initial reply to your fun comment/car analogy was to indicate you begged the question,  hence it was a nice, even if jokey, illustration of the type of replies I was describing earlier.  And your reply wasn't the only one in this thread that illustrated my point perfectly ;-)

Trust your ears and leave the arguments to the know it alls.

So when someone says "Given the well known problem of sighted bias, how do you know you really heard what you think you heard?"

Your response is: "Because I JUST KNOW WHAT I HEARD. So I can ignore you."

And, somehow, it’s the people asking questions that are the "Know-It-Alls?"

Hookay. ;-)

Andy and Nonoise +1. I hear a nice difference also. I put wood under my cables and my dog likes to get them back out and chew on them. It least it hasn’t liked to chew on the cables yet.