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Cable Elevators killed my bass

I purchased a set of 8 Cable Elevators locally on consignment recently for experimentations' sake and was shocked to hear how they seemingly sapped my speakers/system of a couple of hertz of bass output. I have stand-mounted monitors with limited bass so this effect was not subtle. However, every last vestige of grain, haze and artifice in the mid and upper frequencies was gone (and I mean GONE!) as well so this tweak seems to be a double-edged sword that I feel like falling on. Anyone else out there have a similar experience with disappearing bass?
hifijones
racerxnet
54 posts
 
In my experience, moving cables can affect the performance until they re-settle.

You are joking right??? How exactly does it effect performance from an engineering perspective.. What re-settles?? If you lift them up higher does the bass diminish even more??

If I throw the cables in the washer will they sound CLEANER after doing so??

MAK
musicfile
341 posts
 
I agree with foster on this as well
wpines
93 posts
 
You need to place the elevators on no more than 4 inch centers or it kills the bass.
If they are more than 8 inches apart it will kill the treble too.
You need to buy more elevators.
hifijones OP
115 posts
 
Yes, they are the ceramic Cable Elevator+ models. They have a removeable adhesive round rubber disc on the bottom so they're not 100% ceramic, obviously.
hifijones OP
115 posts
 
Foster_9, they've had plenty of time to re-settle since I did this a week ago so I dunno but I hear you.
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