Cable Elevators - What do you use?

Eureka! Brilliant discovery Unsound,

Good point about stiff cables Zargon. With Virtual Dynamics Revelation for instance no need for elevators at all, they just remain in free air if you bend them that way (Provided your gear has a few lbs to brag with and Binding Posts with a major B that is). Aware of Rick's firm set of beliefs, there may be a strong metaphor in that as well.

Schipo, placebo effect would work but.... when yo try the changes on an intermitant basis and LISTEN to the difference it produced, and could qualify it for oyur own subjectiveness as well as from an independant evaluator then FOR ME these were a good invetment for the change it made for my rig. Everything we try in the hobby is a matter of subjectiveness, what you hear I may not or what you like may not suit me also, but I respect your point of view for without it we wouldn't have changes that lead to better.

Unsound,

Is turning the flower pots over a metaphor suggesting that that the foundation for the argument of elevating cables is based on what might euphemistically be described as fertilizer?

Very amusing... be careful or you'll stir the pot of this thread. (:-)

Actually, I make no argument here pro or con on the influence of cable risers on the sound. As an engineer, I could make a theoretical case for why it might based on variation in the dialectrics surrounding the wire, but I have no experience or data to prove that it does. My primary motivation for risers was that they organize the cables and make them look better, and make it easier to clean under them. If the sound improved - that's great. As for power cables, I just leave them on the carpet but at right angles to the cables.

My advice to Puerto and others is that if you haven't fully addressed your room acoustics, don't worry about cable risers until you have.

Aw shucks, I was just being a jerk. While my system doesn't very easily lend itself to risers, I can easily imagine the benefits.

Absolutely nothing! I've got cones, spikes, blocks, and more under equipment. Sometimes there's a need for a line in the sand. I refuse to apply any cable elevators to my system. It is possible to get great sound without them.