Lifters ForGetting Cables Off The Floor, Worth It Or Snake Oil

I'm looking at some porcelain cable lifters to get some power and speaker cable up off the floor. Does raising the cables off the floor really make a difference? It's going to be about 200 bucks for 10 of them. Thanks.

zar06-15-2017 1:05am

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bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,412 posts 08-22-2017 at 12:24am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Local heavy industry and/or construction is one source of seismic vibration, the earth itself another. The presence of the latter does not make the absence of the former any less welcome. Duh, or should I say HELLOOO? Apparently some people just love to argue. I would rather spend my remaining time listening to music.
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,412 posts 08-20-2017 at 02:37pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete folkfreak is in one of the most extreme construction-active cities in the U.S.A. right now---Portland Oregon! There is active construction on just about every street in the city. I go into town a few times a week, and am relived when I get back to the Salmon Creek area of Vancouver Washington, about a 20 minute car ride away. Peace and quiet! Plus, my electrical power station is only a 1/4 mile from my house, in a neighborhood with residential housing only---no industry, even light. More quiet. Makes my tinnitus even more audible!
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,412 posts 08-11-2017 at 07:43am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Watch the Townshend You Tube video, silly! Max explains the Pod, which behaves like a bellows, iirc. I would watch it again, but my computer has a virus that prevents me from doing so. Me too, swampwater. The Eminent Technology LFT-8b has it’s binding posts mounted on the top of it’s bass bin, and my power amp is at about the same height, on the top shelf of a stand, the speaker cable suspended between the two. Same with my Quad ESL's, which are on Arcici stands. Have to check the tightness of the amp and speaker posts every once in a while!
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,412 posts 08-10-2017 at 07:57pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The Townshend Pods are not simply damped springs, they are much more sophisticated than that. Their design is explained and effectiveness demonstrated in the video Max posted on You Tube.
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,412 posts 06-23-2017 at 08:11am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Can't get any cheaper than empty paper towel and bathroom tissue cardboard tubes. They're free (you can't buy the paper without the tube)!
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,412 posts 06-15-2017 at 09:10pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I, like shadorne, thought of saving empty bathroom tissue rolls, gluing them together (with some in the middle cut shorter, to create a channel for the ic's, speaker cables, and power cords), and painting them black or brown (black to match the cables, brown to match the floor). In a house of three, it's amazing how fast the rolls pile up. Paper towel rolls would be taller, but we don't use that many of them.

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