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

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).

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

I experimented with using beer cans as cable risers.  I would drink a beer then used the empty can as a riser.   And guess what?  By the time I finished it worked.

"Roger Russell/speakerwire"....good article.  I wonder if rebar would sound better than coat hangars?