Suspended cables

Hi folks,

Still a bit of a newbie here.

I have gained an understanding of the reasoning behind keeping speaker cables off the floor.

So ...,

Each of my mains have a 1.5 meter cable connected to it’s own monoblock. The monoblocks sit 26" above the floor and nearly level with the speaker terminals. Speaker to monoblock distance allow the cables to be suspended completely from the floor in a loosely hanging arc (about 8" above the floor).

Is this better than using cable risers?
Are there any reasons not to do this? Stress on connectors? Bad for cables?

Thanks all!

hleeid02-22-2020 6:12am

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mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,859 posts 02-24-2020 at 05:40pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete How gentle, how wise, how curious some are, branding others, rejecting them in the deluded crowd, without experience or without being conscious that what we experience in an audio system is directly proportional to some accessible level of the potential of this same audio system and proportional also to our trained or most of the times untrained ears.... Training the ears implicate a continuous stream of experiments with the same audio system without any upgrade... After that the mind is being opened to the range of possibilities given by an audio system, where the 4 embeddings are completely controlled or not completely or half way between the two...After that an opinion has some value... :) "The door open only if you knock " - anonymus
mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 22,997 posts 02-24-2020 at 06:47pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I arrange my cables but I don’t suspend them. Can make a big difference and may cost nothing.
rockysantoro Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 154 posts 02-24-2020 at 06:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Carpet is the enemy of speaker cables. Much static build-up. Risers will help here. Bare floors, no problem.
1971gto455ho Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 556 posts 02-26-2020 at 11:25pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete That's it ...Kids birthday party, rubbed a balloon on little johnny's sweater it stuck !! And now kid answers to little Susie !! Put moms high heels on Bam...Here's Johnny..... Cheers
zyphryx Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 128 posts 02-28-2020 at 11:37am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @hleeid I tried it for myself and while I could not hear a difference, that doesn't mean you won't. I like the orderly arrangement the cables are in now. This makes it much easier to keep everything separated. Not only that but it does keep that dusty funk from building up on the cables and makes cleaning around the area much easier. I tried paper cups and egg cartons before pulling the trigger on something permanent but they were too fragile. I was about to chuck the whole idea until I saw plastic rebar chairs on a site one day. They have semicircular notches that the bigger cables perfectly snap into. They are stable and you can get them for about $0.43 each. Google "plastic rebar chairs"