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Separating cables, is there a mat to help along the way?

I'm trying to tackle separating my power cables from speaker and interconnects and ethernet/hdmi video and other cables  from each other. I will do the best I can behind my TV/console area but also wanted to use some kind of shielding if it is available for places I can't keep them far enough away. It's a bit tight back there but I do have verticle space which I may want to build a quasi shelf to hang cables on/from..  I figured if I could get them far enough away from each other and use something to wrap the rest of the cables so they would be separated that way.

Maybe even tape or something that would help, but I would hate to "ruin" my expensive cables with tape, but not out of the question if it would work, as I plan to keep my current cables permanently. 

I'm also planning on replacing all wall warts with some kind of lps to reduce unwanted noise even more. I'll plan on running those new cables away from the current ones I have now. Just planning for future upgrades now, with possibly Sbooster or  Uptone Js2 or something.  I've had a mess of cables behind my equipment for a while and have decided to clean it up.

Any ideas about the shielded mat or tape or covers?

Thanks for reading.
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I use W and M blocks and attach a flat base with silicone. It’s all wood, just painted black. I use vinyl but only about 10% of the time. Vinyl needs pretty good vibration control.

I don’t let anything touch, there are a few cables too. I call it cable art, takes a while to get just right. I have to coil cables in two spots. It looks like a snake coiled to strike, but they don’t touch. The center of the coil is where the terminal ends go into two bass bins..2 coils on the #10 PC.  It pays great dividends. I cross at 90 and at least 1/2" between everything...ZERO floor noise.

Here is my test. Pick a source, have nothing playing. Now turn it all the way up. Do you hear anything? That is the measure of a quiet system. Black back ground. No noise. You’ve routed correctly. Learned it as a kid, working at a movie theater. Use to be so cold in that place except where the sound equipment was. My friday night "stay out of trouble" job..

I’ll leave or help fix a noisy system, but I won’t just turn up the volume and listen, drives me nuts... Bundle and drop.. LOL OK!! I’ll see ya later...

Regards
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