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Hi,
I was thinking of the alternative method of cable elevator. Instead of raising the cable off the carpet floor, can we just use several tiles or marbles to isolate the contact between cable and the floor?
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Anything that has a tone when tapped is bad to use for lifting cables. I had this happen to me when I experimented with glass prisms on wood blocks.My advice is to make cylinders out of stiff paper stock and stand them on end. Place plastic bags with kitty litter inside into the centers to help dampen them. Wrap the ends with Teflon thread-seal tape for further acoustic damping. Your cables transmit vibration directly into your equipment, so they should be supported by things as firm and quiet as your equipment supports. If you have heavy cables, use lots of paper lifters.
I have repeatedly found this best.I think you are right about not using supports that ring, but you also have to consider the electronic isolation, I strongly suspect. On my speaker wires I use Harmonix resonant dampers but I have found they work even better if they are on top Suspenders.
Initially I bought into ideas from Mikro Omega that paper and string were best for suspending cables. I find ceramics insolators to be superior.
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Not sure why it didn't work last time, but try this.
Going to try cloth towels behind component racks to elevate and separate wires. Have tried nordost eco spray on cables and it cleans up the sound quite a bit. So most of what you might hear comes from vibration and static picked up from carpeting.
Hey MichaelCarbon graphite blocks? i've used that for cable elevators.
or try Dense hardwoods (I use Australian Hardwoods)I've seen a guy use Clothes pegs :)
I couldn't hear a difference in my system with and without elevators- i don't know if it's my ears or the elevators.
I use a bunch of maple woodblock 2.5"x2.5", but i wouldn't hear the difference...may be it's just wood or may be it's too short. I will try ceramic next. However, raising cable off the floor looks really nice...:)
I am using Japanese tea cups to raise the speaker cables. They look quite nice. To be honest with you, I do not notice any significant changes in sound improvement.
I would like to hear what others are using.
Enjoy the music.
Clarence
Try using small empty cardboard boxes, or even shopping around for cheap ceramic insulators. I bought a bunch on ebay for about $5 each when a US army ammunitions plant closed down.I think it'd be cool to make some 8" tall tee-pee's out of chopsticks...take three and spread them out in a fan. tie some rope around 'em to hold the shape. mapleshade sells a similar product, easy to DIY.
i've read about folks using toilet paper rolls full of kitty litter, textbooks, foam or plastic cups....just about anything you can think of really.
from experience, getting cables off carpet is important. i have little experience with hard surfaces, and think the carpet has to do with static electricity.
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