If you have stiff cables, just go and touch them gently while your system is playing. Those vibrations could have a negative effect, so maybe it’s more about cable damping than lifting.
Why? We have RTA, mics and powerful computers that would be used NOW to prove the difference if there was one. There isn’t. Either you have naff cable that picks up interference or you don’t. If you do, move the cable away from the offending cause of the interference or get a cable with better rejection. Don’t get little bits of wood, the whole notion is absurd.
@@chrisvinicombe9947 Its funny how people always say that like its a one way street/argument - usually in an attempt to feel good about themselves when they cant actually come up with a meaningful response. Not that 'i care for the particular topic at hand by the way. Cable risers can *look* cool, that's about as far as my current interest goes.
He has talked about the topic before in some other video, about how the magnetic field surrounding a cable with current running through it, will be affected unevenly by laying on the ground - so raising it up would in theory allow the field to remain even. Now whether this is in any way true or meaningful, I have no idea.
@Fat Rat funny I remember the band name but can't bring to mind any music. Will go and look em up and see if they are worth remembering. Thanks for the activity
Since putting lifters under my cables it's as if a veil has been lifted from the soundstage. If I listen very carefully I can actually ascertain what the musicians had for breakfast! For the first time in my life I actually know how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin as I can now hear them! It's 14 Angels. BTW. To further improve the sound I have fashioned not carpet lifters but specially made AUDIOPHILE stepladders. The improvement was breathtaking!!
That's great, Paul! Seeing as you're a believer (and we know belief trumps science and engineering any day of the week and twice on Sundays) please scoot on over to my new enterprise - Fifteenth Angel Cable Lifters. Unlike inferior designs, with mine you can hear the delicate tap-dancing of that fifteenth angel shine through. Ditch those ladders of yours - they're not your real-ladders, they're only your STEPladders... :D
It must be applied with the left hand, if you are right handed, and by the right hand if you are left handed. At least for the right speaker, and the opposite for the left speaker. It also works much better within a week of the Winter Solstice.
Greetings, Am a great believer in cable moisturizing and pee on my cables every morning. Once I did it when my amps were on one morning and got zapped right up my... well you can imagine! :-)
Whenever I have time for a longer listening session, I get my four pure white fluffy kittens to laydown and drape the cables off their backs to get them off the floor. I've tried others but white kittens give the best response. As they get older the sound is not quite as good. Don't even get me started on my testing with black kittens. That was a hot mess.
Thanks, Chef! I'm fresh out of all three so I'll run down to the hairdresser and pick them up in just one eco-friendly trip - Greta Thunberg will be so proud of me!
You would be well advised to keep all your cables and interconnects as short as feasible. This helps to eliminate EMF and RF interference and insures that there no cables resting on the floor!
Halleluljah! Yes, I hear a difference too in my highly resolving system with an amplifier that is sensitive to speaker cable capacitance. The difference is small but noticeable for me. I am not sure that anyone who doesn't know my system would hear a difference. The differences in my system are: more energy in the high and extended treble, faster transients, better resolution of details when the music is complex or busy and better resolution of very low-level signals. But these effects are small. I have long-ish speaker cables (4.5 m, 14 ft each channel). am using home-made 6" 15 cm lifters made of 3/4" 19mm oak sheet. Feet are 11 cm (4 5/16") square and risers are 3 cm (1 1/4") x 15 cm (6"). A 35 mm ((1 3/8) long 3mm (1/8") woodscrew holds them together in case I want to increase the riser height at a later date. Felt under the feet protects my parquet floor from any possible protruding screw heads. I should mention that under the oak parquet floor it is concrete and contains a lot of water piping as underfloor heating which is very common here. So I hypothesize that the water piping under the floor was increasing the capacitance of the speaker cables over the 14 ft (4.5 m) run per channel. I am tempted to increase the height to a maximum of about 25 cm or 10" and may do this at a later date at minimal cost. One further observation: I have detected mechanical vibration in the speaker cables when playing music at realistic (=loud) levels. This seems to stem from speaker cabinet vibration where the cables are excited by the binding posts. Previously this vibration would have been fed into the floor and dampened there, now it persists in the lifted cable certainly for 3 m or 10 ft. I don't believe that the movement is caused by a motor effect of high current flowing through the cables in the earth's magnetic field. (See Fleming's Left Hand Rule.) All the best, Rob in Switzerland
I find it a bit ironic that Paul has $1k power cables running to a standard US 110V outlet. I seriously hope its not just 12 AWG romex behind it, but it probably is.
@@eelcosterringa1374 That's what I thought when he prodoudly showed us all his solar panels on the roof. These converters are just horrible and I stopped listening to my main set when it is a sunny day......
Just make sure the clothespins are made of Sitka Spruce, exactly grain oriented perpendicular to the floor and insulated from it with lead free porcelain. Never use the spring clothespins, because the springs will make a piccolo sound too much like a sawed-off flute and a Gibson Custom Limited Run 1959 Les Paul Standard almost like a PRS Private Stock Custom 24 with Quilted Maple Top, Mahogany Back and Brazilian Rosewood Neck Electric Guitar - Dragon's Breath with Aged Flame Top and Brazilian Rosewood Fingerboard of Washed Cherry. Why? If you have to ask, you can't afford to hear.
If you have mains wiring running under your floors, you may get some EM interference. Syntehtic carpets *may* also act as a dielectric when coupled with the speaker wire insulation adding capacitance to the cable, which *may* roll off the high end.
@Fat Rat Once again, we are blessed with sage knowledge and discretion which anoints us with awesome reverence for such a succinct answer as to make us weep with pride our chosen one has seen fit to convey.
Just use short speaker cables . My understanding is synthetic carpets increase the capacitance of the cable , storing and releasing energy which is always out of time with the signal causing some smearing of the sound . It doesn't cost anything to experiment yourself rather than getting answers from someone whose experience is unknown . organic material
Audiophile: One who is not particular about enjoying the music but puts one’s energy into making it difficult to do so! 😋 Cmon Paul we were waiting for the “why n How” you used them for years n years.. On to the serious stuff though.... I’ve started Meditation and hoping in a few years I am enlightened enough so that I can elivate off my sweet spot just enough to really enjoy the higher frequencies! Now that’s a lifter! 😉
Actually medication tunes in to lower frequencies in the brain. The lower you plunge the deeper the meditative state you’re in. In fact the purpose of meditation is to filter out the noise and harsh high frequency hiss that the brain stresses over. It’s a bass nirvana that the yogi seeks. (In any case why would some audiophiles be so anally retentive about the sound quality and avoid a diverse and rich understanding of the numerous genres of music and musicians out there? This form of acoustic neuroticism is very strange indeed)
My friend and i decided to try this in our respective systems.In my case the cables are short,so have very little touching the floor anyway.Upon lifting what was left,during musical passages to avoid my memory fooling me,then A/B ing also,i couldn't put my finger on any appreciable difference.My friend has much longer cables with greater contact on the floor and believed he could hear a difference.He mockingly called me a ''non believer''.All tongue in cheek ,with no animosity at all.My inquisitive nature does rather push me into looking for real evidence and answers ie who did it first,and why? What are the measured changes? However,i'd say given that one needn't spend alot,why not try? One may feel there is or isn't a difference,but i can't see it doing any harm.I've theorised that there may be some degree of dialectric change when in contact with the floor and possibly a degree of microphony from small vibrations rising up from the floor too,but in reality i have no idea.Sorry if my post is a bit long! Happy listening all regardless of whatever cables( and their height lol) and systems you use.
Why they did it you ask? Money, money and money... it is all about fooling these people into buying shitty products, and of course NO, there is no way to hear any difference, just like with the decouplers..
Seems like it would depend greatly on what your floor is made of. Is it wood, tile, carpet, cement? These would each have different dielectric and electromagnetic properties. Seems to me that unless your floor has metal in it, these materials are not affected by magnetic fields, so how could they possibly interfere with the signal in the speaker cables?
Electrical energy is carried in the dielectric, the "conductors", if they are good, just act as "rail" guides. So maybe other dielectric materials in contact can subtly affect the sound....or maybe it's vibration that can modulate the physical and thus, electrical properties, of the cable...As Paul says, you probably need a very good set up to hear these things, if they exist....
@@mfr58You are correct - the dielectric makes a difference - that's why cheap cables use PVC insulator sleeving and more expensive ones use Teflon (and maybe air). See my post above to see my experiment with 6" risers and my hypothesis about the mechanism at play. Capacitance is frequency dependent and may be exhibited at low (audible) frequencies as well at higher than audible frequencies. Best, Rob
Tried lifting speaker cables years ago. I was quite sceptical about this tweak, but in my stystem the music became more refined and lively. And the effect was not in the 'maybe placebo' but in the 'impossible to deny' category. I found the tweak too inconvenient and discovered other ways to improve my system. I experimented with mechanical isolation using fishing line to let equipment 'float'. This turned out to be even more effective. In the end I made MDF boards for each device and let these hang on fishing line. I got rid of all the spikes I used before, because it turned out to be a better (and cheaper) way for mechanical isolation. I studied physics and computer science and that makes me sceptical when it comes to audio, but audio also learned me to not immediately deny and ridicule what I don't understand and try it myself before judging.
Why don't people try out whether lifting cables makes a difference? Why do they have to ask someone else? If they don't hear a difference, what does it matter if Paul or anyone else does?
Group A of people like to be told what they should hear, do and think. Group B of people like to hear, do and think by themselves. Happens that group A has a lot of followers and they speak loudly. Group B spend the time hearing, doing and thinking instead.
"Beating your head against your amplifier repeatedly will improve the dynamic range, because it receives kinetic energy." Hey, if you don't try it you can't deny it...! i.e. Anyone who stops to think for a bit can figure out that some things won't have any discernible positive outcome.
Dem power wires goin to the amps look serious as all hel!! I am gonna attempt makin some HQ power cables at home using straight romex wire and some screw-in plug ends from the home depot..
So sad that someone who clearly knows better, is deliberately deceiving his audience to appease the audiophool mythology of snake oil. I always wonder, if your audio system is on the 2nd floor, do you still need to lift them? What about if you're in the penthouse of a condo complex on the top floor, will the audio be even better with the cables lifted so high off the earth? Why not just run ALL your cables in the ceiling for the ultimate audiophile experience? The war on science continues in a constantly shrinking audio market that turns off more and more up coming enthusiasts when they see this nonsense.
i have my cables in automotive plastic wire loom 2 layers of covers on each to protect them from my bunny...would that have the same effect as lifters?
@@HandbrakeBiscuit I have my audio system and freezer connected exclusively to a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor so it is isolated from the grid. All I have to do is throw a few egg shells, a banana peel, and a few drops of beer into it and I’m set for a month.
@@rationalguy2941 Ha! The ruse is UP! We both know the correct method is to use TWO Mr Fusions, one for each channel, and to raise them off the floor, and a third one for the rest of the house. Call yourself an audiophile..!?
@John Cunningham No, most of the videos i watched from Paul are good. It’s just that why you keep on watching this channel even though you keep on scratching your head,, how was that? Lol
@Fat Rat the only audible difference was very minimal, the slightest bit more transparent. In an of itself, hardly worth the effort. Small tweaks like this do add up. A number of minimal tweets can become significant. May differ in another system. As with all things in audio, system dependent. As far as ringing in the glass, if it existed, it had absolutely no audible effect in the given system.
@Fat Rat figure as much, thought you never can tell these days. When I had a dedicated room for my stereo, I tried just about everything I could, to maximize the experience. That was 25 years ago. Today, there are other considerations so tweak like cable lifts are not even on the radar. Music always comes first anyway. The best stereo, is the one you have. Happy listening.
@Fat Rat 🤔😏😉👍 yep, a well placed emoji can change everything. All’s well though. FAT RAT does sound familiar, I spent a bit of time here and on Guttenberg’s channel before about 6 months ago, had to give it up. Too many people telling me I couldn’t hear what I hear. Being an audiophile was a lot more fun for me before the internet.
@Fat Rat that’s the thing, too many people here that should be venting their views on political channels, not audio. The problem for me was, Instead of listening, I was thinking about how to counter their ignorance. Spent about a year and a half doing that. I’d rather just listen to music. My fascination with music started at a young age. Being the youngest of three, I was always around music, damn, it was the 60’s. Built a Heathkit when I was 15, oh my, almost 50 years ago. Always had a better system than everyone around me, except the drug dealers, of course. It’s been fun. 😎🎶🎵🎶🎵
I'm sure the differences you heard were substantiated in double blind tests. After all, that would be one of the easiest tests ever. Methods & Results?
im pretty sure if you ask do you hear the difference now, and actually just having the cables on the floor and before that also on the floor he would say yes. It's snake oil nothing more but lets be honest it looks cool and impressive, creates a snake oil talking point when friends come over. (if you have friends haha). Oh and it's easier to clean the floor without dragging the dust all over the place, or gets around the cable.
Laying cable across the floor minimally adjusts the capacitance. It's called stray capacitance. The effect is so small that no, Paul can't hear it, and it's inaudible. You're more likely going to run into hundreds-of-feet-length issues with the LCR of cables before stray capacitance is a factor.
The only reason I could think of to apply cable lifters is to reduce bending stress on the speaker or amplifier terminals when using rather heavy and/or stiff cables. Maybe, if you have a power line running close by, you could actually circumvent potential interference by putting some additional distance between the cable and the source of an unwanted electrical field since a lot of speaker cables aren't shielded 🤷🏼♂️
Please update (make a little longer) the green uplink on the Network switch. I watched the full video and my eye only focus this cable. Otherwise please remove the note "no cable were harmed on this Video". Thank you for your opinion and experience on this topic.
I have been to a high-end audio store, where their flagship system is a dream stereo, and sounds like nothing you can imagine. I noticed that their speaker cables were lifted off of the floor. They used upside-down plastic cups, which looked out of place. But they held the cables up. So why would they do this? They do not sell plastic cups. In fact, they do not sell anything that lifts up cables. They did this because it helped their already spectacular sounding stereo sound more spectacular. Understand that hearing the benefit of lifting your speaker cables off of the floor will not be heard by 99.9% of us, because 99.9% of us: -- do not have $25,000+ stereos (which I believe is the starting point for a full system that can reveal such nuances, such as lifting speaker cables off of the floor. -- do not have rooms designed for quality sound reproduction. -- do not have the expertise to professionally place our speakers X feet from each wall, with the proper tow-in, lift, and distance from our seated listening position. -- do not have room treatments, to deal with reflections (you have them, whether you realize it or not, you have reflections -- with room treatments, you will be amazed at how much better your stereo will sound when you minimize those reflections). -- do not have the proper source material. If you are listening to random music, understand that no matter how much you love a song, it most likely has mediocre sound quality. So if you have some department store stereo, that cost you $5,000, you will not hear what Paul is hearing. You might love how your stereo sounds. But it is not suited for testing cable lifters. For all of the wise-asses that are cracking jokes at the use of cable lifters, you are doing so without ever testing. You can think that you know that a test is useless, and you would be wrong. Sit yourself down in front of a high-end stereo, in a treated room, set-up by professionals, playing cheery-picked songs, and then listen with the speaker cables on the floor vs lifted from the floor. If you chime in with juvenile insults, you are making buffoons of yourselves. Those of us that have heard the benefit of cable lifters see you as envious, clueless trolls. If a wealthy person has a $300,000 stereo, they are not going to use paper cups in their expensive home. They are going to use well made lifters. Not because they will improve the sound more than paper cups. But because they look better, and the wealthy person can afford to make it look better. Cheers!
@@thisisnev You parade around audio forums, scoffing at equipment that you cannot afford. Envy is written all over your face. I, too, cannot afford such stereos. I also cannot afford a Ferrari. But I scoff at neither of them. Rather, I admire the brilliant people that made those products possible. If an open-minded, non emotional person asks me whether or not I made them switch between cups and no cups, I will answer. But I will not answer you, because you conduct yourself like a child. Your "Didn't think so" comment is evidence of your mindset and your immaturity. You are an attention seeking troll. Other than pointing this out, for anyone that reads your comment, I will not engage you. I will not feed your trolling. Reply with anything that you want. You will be talking to the hand.
When I was a kid years ago and first sailed to Nantucket, everything about that place was magical. True story, in the Nantucket tourist shops back you could buy old liquor bottles stamped full of "Nantucket Air", "keep tightly bottled". Perhaps, believing that the air in Nantucket was magical enough to bottle it, made it magical. . I hear this refrain a lot-- "well your system has to resolving enough" to hear the magic in lifters, pucks, green sharpies, $5,000 equipment tables, whatever. Otherwise you can't smell that Nantucket Air. Makes it easy to dis someone else's system: if you can't hear the difference then your system sucks. Do you work in or own a high-end store? Kinda sounds like it
@@dap777754 Why upgrade your stereo? Your rational hints that all equipment sounds the same. Some stereos do suck. Do you challenge that assessment? Some stereos are pretty good. Some stereos are very good. Some stereos are amazingly good. Etc. dap777754 , your comment conveys that you should be able to test differences in equipment with any of the above. Do you really think that a crappy stereo can reveal subtle difference in sound quality? This is not to put anyone's stereo down. However, reality does not care about feelings. There are stereos that reveal differences in every single aspect of their parts. I have heard such stereos. You have not. I know that you have not, based on your comment. Very few people have heard such great stereos. They are hard to find, and you have to know the owners of them to have permission to a listening session. Anyone that has heard such a stereo would not make such a comment as yours. After you listen to an amazing stereo, your listening experience would be a reality check, and you will kick yourself for making such foolish comments. I am talking about a stereo where your eyes and ears fight over whether or not the band is in the room with you. On such a stereo, you will hear the benefits of any tweak, or the degradation of any change for the worse, no matter how small the change. I was fortunate enough to listen, more than once, to the flagship stereo at a high-end store. I purchased my stereo there, so they let me listen to their big system, which was not being demoed by any customers at the time. And I believe your story. I believe that you are the man from Nantucket. You wrote "True story", so I know that it is true.
I'm guilty of having very expensive cables and interconnects, but I want to know how we audiophiles rationalize the money we spend on this stuff, but yet the rest of the house and electrical distribution is just basic 12, 10 and 8 gauge copper wire?
That makes no sense, how can you compare the interconnect to the electrical wire distribution in your house? From the time the very faint miniscule electrical current is generated inside your pick-up which have to travel all the way from through your tone-arm out of the record player through a set of interconnects and into yet another device. We're taking a 0,5 mV faint audio signal (in the case of MC pick-up) I assure you that which interconnects (material of the conductors, insulation etc) and the lenght and quality of the plugs themselves will have major influence on this 0,5 mV audio signal, while it travels towards the RIAA, even after it reaches the 'phono EQ and gain stage, we're still talking a faint audio signal that haven't even reached the pre-amp yet, this audio signal is very easily colored, and yes no matter which component or cable you decide to let it travel through, you will inevitably color the sound, Enter audiophillia, this is where our quest begins, attempting to 'color' the sound in a way that sounds 'good' Your 230 Volt electricity in the house will power your stuff just fine. The audio doesn't run through your house electricity cables, this electricity will only power the amps and dacs / record players, it has nothing to do with the audio. It makes no sense the argument you're making..! You can buy stand alone psu's boasting heavily regulated electricity, that is dead stable. But inside every last high-end DAC or AMP they've already got you covered, with very very stable PSU's... It doesn't really matter what cables your house electricity runs through, but that doesn't mean your speaker cables and interconnects doesn't matter!!!
@@Lasse3 I agree there cables make a difference, my question was why don't we care about the infrastructure of our homers which delivers the power .. most of us don't
@@Sams911 Please realize that there are already several components inside your audio devices that compensates for the slight instability of the electricity delivered to your home. You can create a dead stable power supply that will power your amp perfectly. Even though this power supply isn't being fed a stable electricity.. This is what is being done already..
to me, there's too much STUFF... more cables from separate Dacs, Phono stages, preamps all over the place. no thanks. give me a good receiver with included DAC & Phono stage and decent power , good looks - good to go. OK that'd be the Cambridge AX 100. or maybe the Outlaw for a lot more $$$. $$$ counts to me , and I'd always consider 'lifters' to be silly, simple as that.
@@Mark-lq3sb Me neither, but the Pope said he really believed it made a difference - so who am I to put puny scientific facts up against his faith? ;¬)
The same physics that makes a $300 speaker cable better than a $50 speaker cable, and a $1500 speaker cable better than a $300 speaker cable. The emperor's new clothes look really nice, too. You just have to believe. Believe!
Interesting no one is taking about the type of floor, which would be a factor. At least one commenter does mention the type of carpet having a dielectric effect. I would think concrete floors with a ground-bonded rebar reinforcement grid could impose on the signal through capacitive effects on a pad built home or commercial property.. Not likely for a wood pier and beam floor over a crawl space or higher story of a wood home.
Dielectric materials separate the positive and negative plates in a capacitor. They are typically incredibly thin films, and serve to keep the plates a known, yet incredibly tiny, distance away from each other so that the electrons and 'holes' (lack of electrons) can pull on each other, which is what the physical basis of capacitance is. Saying that an insulating material, such as a carpet, running underneath a cable, or conductive re-bar an inch or more down inside concrete would have a dielectric effect and create capacitive effects on a cable is like saying that if you whisper into someone's ear the sound is affected by the moisture content of the air fifty feet away.
I like lifting my cables in a metal tube 5cm off the floor. The result is AMAZING. I will start selling metal tubes for speaker cables at $300 each 8ft length, you will need at least two. I can paint the metal tube any color and they come in steel and aluminium metals. Shipping is extra, custom tube bending is extra.
Maybe even use a bigger tube and put a pvc pipe inside. of course you can just wrap it in tin foil i mean it has stopped alian signals from reaching brains for years now.
I absolutely hear a difference and use cut 2x4 pieces of wood as cable lifters for my speaker cables. It’s not a vibrational thing. I have carpet which is made from polyurethane which can act as an added dielectric to the cable and poly dielectrics suck and affect the sound.
I saw a video of a guy who showed that when he lifted the cable, the capacitance decreased by a few Pico farads. Would that make a difference? Maybe! I dunno ☺
The more resolving a system gets, the more sensitive it becomes. Like looking at something through a microscope needs only very small adjustments to the lens to bring it in focus. : )
@@HareDeLune Clearly you and I have been using different microscopes. Mine had lenses than moved up and down by rather more than half a gnat's whisker.
But if he got us doubting the wonders of cable lifters, who knows where it might lead? (Pun intended.) We might even start having doubts about cables, interconnects, valves... maybe even power conditioners!
It is insane BS beliefs like this that calls into question any of this salesman’s other videos and opinions. The most charitable analysis is that he was joking just to boost comments, which appear to be diminishing in quantity lately. Not a smart idea as it makes him look IQ challenged.
I think a lot of people commenting on it being snake oil or BS didn't hear Paul saying you don't need to spend any money on it just make some yourself and try it. I have some nice wood pieces in the shed that I liked but had no use for, made some at the beginning of the pandemic and have to say I quite enjoy the project. I actually burn the wood, sand and stain it. Can't say I hear any different but I love the way it looks with my system.
I would love for Paul to talk with gene at audioholic. Paul he would say you are full of crap. And by the way, nice job of explaining why it makes a difference. That there proves you are full of it. Of course you're going to say it makes a difference because some of what you sell a snake oil and the lifters are snake oil and HiFi snake-oil salesmen are in cahoots together. Notice I say some of the things you sell are snake oil. So PS audio fanboys no need to comment
Cable Lifters? So exactly what is the sound difference you say you can hear? And how about this, I run my large cables under the floor, through the joists. Please tell me how you think this effects the sound?
Heh I kinda found a reason why to get them. When at loud low frequencys it's nothing I can hear from the speakers it's that my cables will rattle or vibrate from the sound so cable risers could possibly help from that
Science is bad, Francisco! Everyone knows that, and that transistors and valves were created by magic. It's what you hear that matters, or so the voices in my head tell me. ;¬)
@Fat Rat Nah, they don't work. The voices in my head told me so, and I heard them so they're real. ;¬) Thank god you and I can hold different opinions and not lose any sleep over it, FR!
Hang mine from the ceiling using 6lb monofilament polynanocarbon fishing line. The frequencies from 5khz and higher are ethereal but frequencies below 5khz blows.
It doesn't look like you are using the original Infinity bass drivers in your towers any more? What are you using now? As far as the crossovers between the tweeter/mid wings and the woofer towers, what does the Infinity cross over do? I know you may well have modified them. Any info would be helpful!
Aren't cable lifters just for the aesthetics? If the system layout is beautiful to look at, then you will feel more comfortable and happier listening to the system. This can be confused with "sounding better".
There are a lot to high-end hifi that is hard to explain. If we all just believe in measurements there would be no high-end brands. It would just be the standard stuff with receivers from big name brands. If you experienced all that Paul has it might be hard to deny anything. At least you must have a open mind or else there would be no meaning behind what they are trying to do at ps audio. I admire Paul to be honest and answer questions people send to him. It might be that what he experienced is placebo but it could also be something to it. It is free to test this tweak for yourself and it does not hurt anyone. Just have some fun. It is mostly what this is about.
I’m willing to bet no person would hear any difference when lifting and not lifting speaker cables during a listening test. It’s why you’ll never see someone blindfolded and detecting when someone is actually lifting cables during a listening test.
@Fat Rat Indeed. The complement was deserved. Your comment was well said, to the point, factual, and put him right in his place all in one go using an economy of words in it's delivery. If that isn't eloquent, I don't know what is. : )
Didn't say what the difference was and if it was a positive improvement. I recently made cable lifters for speaker cables and it made a significant Improvement. More extended top end and greater detail.
Only in the comments, and even then, only by people who have even heard of such esoterica. For the rest, it falls into the categories of "snake oil" and "placebo effects".
@@HareDeLune Nope. For the rest, it falls into the category of "It exists, we can measure it, in this case it's so trivial compared to the current in the cable as to have no discernible effect." Elementary school science, my dear Hare.
No no no - you are approaching this all wrong…. What I did was precisely measure the distance from my ceiling to my floor, constructed a cryogenically frozen polarized hanger wire cable system which suspends my cables from the ceiling (using completely sonically inert materials) and hired a contractor to come in and LOWER my floor exactly 4.217 inches. The new hangers are not quite broken in yet and it was very expensive but I can really HEAR the difference! I told the wife - Nope - the floor was always that way……
No way you're going to get better sound that way. What the hell is wrong with you? Read and learn: I'm planning on traveling in Space in search of a better Planet where I can listen to my audio system. This Planet has lots of interference, too much radiation, too much noise from useless animals, earthquakes over and over interfering with my subs, too much water in oceans making weird noises that interfere with my mids, etc... On that marvelous Planet the people from there and I will build a new audio system (I hope they'll use dark energy as power instead of electricity, I believe dark energy will make the bass a little punchier
depends if it's a capital J or a lower-case j, obviously... hopefully it's clear i'm being facetious... as long as your cables aren't running right next to a massive pulsating electromagnetic field or similar, they'll be fine.
Speakers cables - yes. Power cables.. I swear it makes a difference to get them off the carpet. Small effect, but enough that I just keep some short pieces of wood under them. I have no idea why, but in my room they'll always be off the carpet.
