Cable Elevators - What do you use?

Damn fine idea Sprink.You should patent and market the balloons.You will get rich overnight.Charge a small fortune for them and throw out a few reviews on the audio sites and everybody and their brother will have to have them!!!Brilliant.Wish I would have thought it.

Old fish.

Unsound gave me a GREAT idea: small stuffed creatures as cable elevators.
Various small endangered/rare mammals, snakes, birds.. all carefully taxidermied.
I mean: just think of the guy with some $10,000 each speaker cables with stuffed Ermins as cable elevators!!
(They could carry the cable in thier little jaws!!)

I use Shunyata Dark Field elevators, mostly to get off carpet to help keep static down as my system is subject to it in the basement. Also, I've heard it don't matter what you use to get these cables, (all cables), off the floor but I think it just makes sense for it to be made of something that don't resonate vibrations. I think that is half of why you want a cable off the floor so for me a cup of some sort will vibrate some and I just wonder if that would affect the sound. I have no testing or scientific reason for this thought but just me old common sense brain at work and maybe me justifying my cable elevators in my mind a bit to. Yes I think it improves the sound to get them off the floor but its been so long since I added them I can't remember what it did. It did get rid of my static problem.

Just for kicks, I bought 10 pieces of 2" thick acrylic, size 3x4 from www.CustomIsolation.net. I used them to lift ALL cables and cords 3" off the carpet thinking "okay? let's see what you got, and what the heck ppl 've been talking about?"
It sweeped me off the floor! I freezed up when I first heard the first music notes, they sounded much cleaner; VERY clean without harshness at all. I went back & forth to assure it was not my imagination.
My conclusion is yes, get them cables and cords off the floor using acrylic blocks do make sound CLEANER.It's a great tweek to reach for the high-end and the hi-fi sound. But fellas that like warmth, musicality, and romantic sounds must look-out, I suggest using softer material like wooden blocks or foams (may have small dielitric).