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

I’ve never been able to detect a difference, but I figure why not. I use Legos. Can be configured to any cable, height, even carpet color. $10

My vintage 1986 Monster Cables work flawlessly.  I don't run them along the floor.  They come out of the back of the cabinet at a very slight downward angle.  Then they get suspended from push pins with synthetic strings from the wall angling downward towards the speakers.  We all know current  flows better going downhill.....;-)

Vibration is part of music, or is in fact what music IS really. Since many can't get away from this music thing messing with your cables and components to a degree that causes symptoms of elitism, maple worship, and sad component isolation and cable embarrassment ("Please sir, take me off of this toilet paper roll."), any audio freak worth their status as Esteemed One Who Knows What Clearly You Don't, or EOWKWCYD, should remedy these stultifying issues by simply keeping  your components away from music. Leave it off...it still looks great just sitting there...dust it once in a while.

This thread is better than beers.  Better even than self-indulgence.

I say show me the measurement.  NOT a subjective impossible to quantify.. "my ears or my ear "training" or my sense of hearing are more evolved an better than yours" like most claim.

Careful waving around demands like that.  Asking an audiophile who tests claims purely subjectively to show objective evidence is like raising a cross to a vampire ;-) 


(Especially many of the tweak-manufacturers, where you get pseudo-scientific sounding descriptions in the sales pitch, but in place of objective measurable evidence for those claims, you tend to get marketing and anecdotes.   Which makes business sense, given the rich market resource they have of largely subjectivity-oriented audiophiles whose methods of 'testing' the claims allow for all the bias necessary to hear what the marketing pitch suggests.  And I count myself among those who have been influenced this way).