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RE: What would happen...

Posted by stehno (M) on October 30, 2014 at 20:29:18

In Reply to: What would happen... posted by QuadTodd on October 30, 2014 at 20:08:26:

Yeah, the copper plates were a concern, but gotta' make due with what I got.

So before this, I did try a little experiment of just raising the line conditioners about 4 inches off the ground for very minimally audible gains. Very slight improvement in clarity.

Now that bottom copper plate is about 6 inches off the ground. But then again the steel conduits (points) make contact with the carpet. Albeit the steel is not so good a conductor and the contact points are minimal.

Now my main rack is just inches from the carpet and the mono block amps are maybe 5 inches from the carpet.

The carpet itself is 7 seven year old anti-static type of berber if that means anything.

BTW, I recently posted in another DIY thread here my experimenting with some various highly rated speaker cable lifters.

For years, I'd been using some ceramic lifters that raise the cables maybe 6 inches off the ground. Recently tried some others that actually caused a reasonable gain. Surprisingly.

Knowing that wiring actually moves / vibrates when an electrical current is passed thru, I grabbed some old acoustic foam squares I had in storage.

Since my Audio Tekne speaker cables girth is narrower than a No. 2 pencil, I used a straight edge and box cutter knife to cut lengthy 1/2" deep slits lengthwise.

This picture shows the final product. The performance gains are about double the highly rated performance-oriented cable lifters I still need to put up for sale. (that's why I'm not telling the name brand).

Like many things, it took about 36/48 hours for the first gains to appear, and the gains occurred several more times over the next 4 or 5 days before finally settling. This was a very nice surprise improvement.

Edits: 10/30/14 10/30/14

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