Synergistic Research Cable Risers?

All materials have a sound.......I would not think that a ceramic riser would be best. You do not want to induce any microvibs into the cable. Also the ceramic risers do not raise the cable very much. I like to use cardboard. I have found cardboard to be very dead and clear sounding. You can make cardboard risers for essentially nothing and make them any height you want. For instance, you can cut a piece of cardboard 13 inches by 4 inches. You bend the cardboard at 5 inches from each end. You cut a slot in the middle of the end of each of these 5 x 4 inch parts and tape them together using electrical tape, scotch tape or glue.....even string, I would think PVC tape is less prone to static than scotch tape. The slot holds the cable. The deeper you cut the slot the more area it holds onto the cable. It looks something like a pyramid when done. Here is a link to some pics where you can see a very crude one I made years ago and still use today (no WAF here....he he):

http://tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/Cheap_stuff__Cool_stuff__Tweaks.html

If you have ceramic risers you might want to make some out of cardboard and compare. You can make them higher and you can make more of them so they support the wire even more. And they cost basically nothing. Fun stuff.

The Mapleshade three stick jobbies raise the cable 8 inches off the ground.  Check these out:

https://shop.mapleshadestore.com/Triad-Cable-Lifts_p_1294.html

You can make your own out of dowels, chopsticks or whatever.  Be creative.....but get those cables off the floor.

Baloney...vibration from music (or sub sonic tectonic vibes generated by an overly fertile imagination) isn't the horrible thing people claim it is, and getting your cables off the floor is utterly unnecessary and, by the way, vibration still gets to the cable (unless you isolate it in drainpipes filled with cotton balls or tiny bits of fuzzy audiophile paranoia) causing zero audible distress.  What about the cable INSIDE your speakers? Wait...don't think about that last one as you won't be able to sleep.

Baloney!Will it dissipate vibrations and protect from RFI?Thick or thin sliced?I actually think cable risers look nice and make cleaning under them easier.But I can't hear much if any difference.

wolf_garcia5,335 posts03-05-2020 2:40pmBaloney...What about the cable INSIDE your speakers? .

Duh! the cables inside your speakers are NOT on the floor.

The problems with most audio system user is the lack of priorities and lack in method...


To assess audible differences by anyone for anyone there must exist a scale of priorities in the different embeddings controls and methods...


There is no minimal consensus about this scale...

My own experiment about 4 embeddings is only a beginnings and makes me able to discover more and more....It seems people are more interested by their taste in audio gear and their own opinion generate by their limited audio system...


How to create a top audio system for peanuts is my goal.... I succeed to a great degree...Not with "opinions" or my "beloved brand name gear ", but my systematic experiments, simple, homemade, low cost...

Discussion about cables are ridiculously sterile, because the 2 armies does not know to speak one another in a common language about the priority scale concerning increase S.Q. in an audio system ....