Bologna OR Baloney How does this work? Please fee


Hello everybody once again, with my questions :)

Well I am curious about the Cable Elevators and how they work!
I have been into high end audio for almost 20 years now and only started believing about Power Cords around 5 years ago, I tried it and realized they made a difference unlike before that, I laughed about it.

I am one of those who don’t get roped in easily but can anyone out there tell me ( their own experience) how this industrial grade porcelain works, I would like to get some feedback before trying some out my self, my options are to place some of my high grade china ware I have collecting dust in the dining room than to buy something for $150 or maybe even using blocks or bricks or wood.

They say:

Cables come in contact with a wide variety of flooring surfaces. Each can have a different effect on cable behavior. By elevating cables off the floor you eliminate static charge and you lower capacitance. The net effect is lower noise and increased dynamics. Another factor is the dampening of the natural modulation inherent to all cable. That is an electrical signal passing through a conductor (cabling) produces a desirable mechanical resonance that is dampened when placed on the floor. This also constricts dynamics and low-level detail. Placing cables in free space would be ideal.

Any input is appreciated

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Cable elevators really help with older speaker cables that are too tired to take the stairs.
Nsgarch, do you mean that we should get a homeless person with a hand written sign to stand next to our cables? Maybe raising cables off of the floor is the "work" commonly referred to in the text of these signs. This will surely get the wife involved.
It seems to me that, besides any mechanical damping that is involved, anything that touches the cables would affect their dielectric properties. Things like polypropelyne do not have particularly advantageous dielectric signatures for audio applications, so I would think that these should be avoided. This is totally idle speculation and I would be the last person to spend my leisure hours comparing the sonic benefits of cable risers.