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Cable lifters/towers- voodoo or the real thing?

This is something I've been wrestling with for some time. After spending as much on equipment as I have, I'm hesitant about dropping a rather menial sum on cable lifters or towers. It's literally the cost of a few cases of premium imported beer, but I just can't believe what I read about them. Six Moons glowed about Dedicated Audio's Cable Towers, but I'm not sure if I buy it. Perhaps it's because I don't understand the reasoning behind them. Any opinions or thoughts to educate me here? Am I being an idiot not getting any? Right now, I just have a tangled mess of cables lying on the floor, suspended in air from being relatively stretched....is it a good way to tweak a system?
afc
auxetophone
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Six Moons also glowed about these - I'm not buying :)

Seriously, cables can be microphonic (probably depends on the cable) and isolating them from vibration seems reasonable. Inverted styrofoam cups are an inexpensive test.
afc OP
141 posts
 
Went with 5/8" thick foam rubber pipe insulators from Home Depot. No difference that I can hear. Insulated speaker cords and power cords. Nothing. At least I can now step on the cords with impunity and not worry about damaging them.
bradluke0
147 posts
 
HI all ! The purpose of lifting the cables is to get them in the air with cable elevators everyfoot or so . Just sliding insulation over them just lets them lay on a flat surface which is where you started .Putting the cable elevators closer together makes the bass tighten up more. I like to put them slightly different distances apart to even out the string resonance of the cables.
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