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Cable elevators

My Saturday hifi tweaking involved digging out the family’s box of wooden building blocks and using them to elevate my speaker cables off the floor. Previously under an area carpet on a wood floor. Mc 601s to SF Amati with Wireworld speaker cables (to be replaced with Cardas). 
 

The result—mind you the system is playing really well right now thanks to my new Cardas interconnects—is greater clarity (I think), sound stage, and texture. This is definitely about wringing out the last ounce of the system and maybe I’m imagining the improvement. I don’t think I’d spend any money on buying risers, but what the hell why not use the old building block. Looks dopey and the family laughs at me, but dang does the system sound amazing.

Anyone else play with risers/elevators?

w123ale
pops
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I’m with you salectric.  My experience exactly. 

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tksteingraber
533 posts
 

Yep made some from scrap maple for a fun experiment.  Used them to lift and separate my speaker’s built in sub power cords and speaker cables off the wood floor.  After several hours of comparison listening I have to say the experiment was a success.  My wife and kids asked me what i was doing now. After my explanation they rolled their eyes and we had one great time making fun of my efforts and laughing their a&$’s off.  Success!  I couldn’t hear any difference on my system.

 

 

 

riie
208 posts
 

I don’t play with elevators. I usually use the stairs.

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milpai
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@riie ,

You should definitely visit Burj Khalifa in Dubai 😄

dorkwad
534 posts
 

I tried elevators a couple times--just OK in SQ.  Krissy had me try using 100lb. fish line to suspend the cables about 1 ft. off the floor.  I had mono amps so I tried doing this on just the right channel first so I could hear if there was a significant difference.  The sound was better in all ways suspended rather than just sitting on the ground.  I have a suspended ceiling so hooking the cables to the grid was fairly easy.  I have a dedicated room so the look wasn't a problem to me.  If your speaker cables aren't too heavy you could use much lighter fish line for this.  One of the better tweaks I've done to the system and maybe the best for the money tweak ever.

Bob

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