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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?

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coppy777
145 posts
 

My Wireworld Platinum Eclipse solid silver speaker cables have been up on Shunyata risers and a set of Audioquest risers.  I could hear no difference with either set or the floor from the Wilson speakers.  Dave Salz of Wireworld says risers make no difference. At least with his cables.  They all look a bit silly as well.

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jallan
317 posts
 

I remember the Mapleshade demo rooms featuring a giant spider web of cables suspended from the ceiling, with their exceedingly thin cables being clad in thin clear styrene or the like. The sound was always unrelentingly hard and harsh. I never liked it.

wolf_garcia
6,719 posts
 

I'll believe in cable risers (actually, I won't) when somebody explains what's happening to the poor tortured cables inside EVERY speaker...the crossover gets it also...the dreaded vibration. Be afraid, be very afraid...

rodman99999
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             When a Deny'intologist can't savvy the science, they'll (typically) either:

                               pertinaciously persist in their puzzlement,

                              answer with asseveration from yet another,

                                                            or:

                                     dab at derailment with deflection.

                                                    No surprises!

                                    

 

 

whipsaw
759 posts
 

Hey @rodman99999 

Forget about the complexities of science, how about simply justifying your text in a normal manner (i.e. to the left), as opposed to centering it, which makes your posts uncomfortable and difficult to read?

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