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Bologna OR Baloney How does this work? Please fee

Hello everybody once again, with my questions :)

Well I am curious about the Cable Elevators and how they work!
I have been into high end audio for almost 20 years now and only started believing about Power Cords around 5 years ago, I tried it and realized they made a difference unlike before that, I laughed about it.

I am one of those who don’t get roped in easily but can anyone out there tell me ( their own experience) how this industrial grade porcelain works, I would like to get some feedback before trying some out my self, my options are to place some of my high grade china ware I have collecting dust in the dining room than to buy something for $150 or maybe even using blocks or bricks or wood.

They say:

Cables come in contact with a wide variety of flooring surfaces. Each can have a different effect on cable behavior. By elevating cables off the floor you eliminate static charge and you lower capacitance. The net effect is lower noise and increased dynamics. Another factor is the dampening of the natural modulation inherent to all cable. That is an electrical signal passing through a conductor (cabling) produces a desirable mechanical resonance that is dampened when placed on the floor. This also constricts dynamics and low-level detail. Placing cables in free space would be ideal.

Any input is appreciated

Rapogee
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nsgarch
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Viridian, I was referring to the roadways, not the folks who live under them.

Jeff, I've tried the pipe insulators, but they need to be taped closed or they eventually work loose. Not pretty. In addition, it's not really thick enough or rigid enough to hold the cable off the floor.

In any case, I've come to the same conclusion as Albert Porter, which is that my PAD cables received all the elevation they needed when Jim Aud figured out his MSRPs!
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Albert, here's a really inexpensive and effective (they can't fall over!) cable lifter solution:

Buy (as many as necessary) polypropylene foam children's pool noodle play floats in your choice of color (including grey if you look around).

They come in 6 foot lengths, round or hexagonal cross-section (about 5" dia.) and most have a hole in the middle.

Cut them into 4" sections and thread as many as necessary onto your speaker cable.

Much more effective (and attractive IMO) than the porcelain insulators, which BTW are available for pennies at most used building or electrical supply yards.
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If your floor structure is a concrete slab on grade (dirt) i.e. it's well "grounded", there could be a very slight inductance built up depending on the actual configuration of your speaker cable, but due to the relatively low power in speaker cables, it would be so small as to have virtually no affect on signal transmission (sonics.)

As for damping, most high end cable makers (e.g. Purist Audio) go to great lengths to damp out any resonances or external vibration. I can't see why it would be desireable to preserve/encourage it.
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Bob

I'm also told that now I must raise my speaker cables off the floor & also arrange all my cabling such that none touches another at all. However I haven't figured out exactly how I'm going to accomplish that trick;

It's done exactly like freeway interchanges. You'll figure it out ;~))

Neil
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