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

What??

I think that rather than wondering if it makes a sonic difference, we should all be doing it to keep dust bunnies away from our expensive cables. Before I used the homemade ones that I now use I would have dust collecting all over them.

i still have my 4 bose 901 series 2 from the 4 chanell days. i have a small living room so i have all 4 hanging from the ceiling! compared to when i had them on stands and now hanging from the ceiling, i can't hear no difference!

Honestly,  I have no idea as to whether or not there is a tangible,  sonic benefit from raising them off the floor,  but all of the techinical and scientific evidence I have consumed says that it is a good idea.  So I do.  It just makes sense to me.

I also use platforms for my equipment,  never stacking one piece atop another like I did in high school/college.  I read about vibration affecting sound in negative ways,  so I bought platforms. 


These are the most simple "tweaks" one can employ for attaining better sound, and they're pretty cheap.

I was thinking about trying SR UEF Cable Risers next. I found the SR Blackbox sucked the life out of recordings by cutting off frequencies above 8Khz. The UEF Cable Riser demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVIKxulyLNY may indicate a similar negative loss of highs/openess effect using a type of ECT on each riser, or they may just focus the sound better without losing the highs and openess.  I will have to try it in my listening room to see if it's a keeper or a loser.