Cable Risers/Elevators revisited


For a couple of years now, I've been using ceramic cable elevators, you know, the ones that are overpriced telephone pole pieces.  😉 I've used them blindly, and always have had a pretty revolving system, since my speaker upgrade earlier this year, I've been reevaluating things.  Last night I decided to remove the cable elevators from the system and let the cables rest au natural on the carpeted floor.  Honestly, I wasn't expecting a world of differnce.   Well, to my surprise, it sounded-better?!   Larger soundstage, much better timbre and bloom, less analytical, with better dynamics.  It sounds way less hifi, and more like a live performance.   I   I can't  believe it.   I would have thought the opposite would have been found.   I'm at a loss.  Reinserting the lifters brings a super squeaky clean, but univolving and electronic sound.   Not sure if it's gen ceramic, but maybe a test drive of different lifter materials is in order.  

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Not terribly surprising considering that ceramic as a material is an excellent resonator. The best way to escape the deleterious effects of electric static charge and vibration is to suspend the cables and cords from the ceiling with fishing line and eye hooks. 👀
For the more adventurous or wary among you put a rubber band on one end of the fishing line to turn the thing into a spring. If the significant other complains about stuff hanging from the ceiling all over the place there's always Enid Lumley's cable tunnels, which I'm quite expert at. 
As I stated in a previous post, the ceramic insulators color the sound. Any improvement from lifting off the floor is marred by a change in tonal balance among other things. I have found the acrylic risers to be the most neutral, however, I am on carpet and can't speak to improvements with hardwood floors. 
+1 goeffkait I did not care for ceramic either, and I had made my own.
However we employed the fish line system, it is by far one of the most profound tweaks we have ever done. I guess I am one very lucky man,
my wife insisted we use the fish line system. 
Shunyata DF-SS  Dark Field Suspension System is the best they improve the sound greatly and are much better than anything i have used previously by a wide margin.