I have toyed with the idea of lifting / neatening up my cables for a while. Others have tried this for improvment of the sound with mixed results but I figured it was worth a try if nothing but straighting out my runs of cables.
Before I thought about a design for them I figured I would try somthing simple and find out if it would affect the sound.
I took some old plastic CD cases and opened them up like little tents and placed them under all of the interconnects and speaker cables on the left side of the system.
My logic -although often suspect- was by placing them only on the left side and listening to a piece of music I was familar with, and had just listen to should make an immediate difference if it was going to have any affect. There would either be a shift in the sound stage and image to the left or right if they had some affect or stay the same if there was no affect.
I was listening to Diana Krall "Girl in the other room" for my compairson.
The image,much to my suprise moved to the left by about 12" ( my CLS's are 64" from inside frame to frame ) and was much more pronounced and clearer.
I then placed some little plastic tents under the right side cables and the image and stage moved back to the center and had the same new clarity as the left side had shown.
The sound was clearly better with the lifters in.
This may not be true for all systems and cables. The fact that I use unsheilded Shunyata Altair & Andromeda cables and they were laying on carpeting that may or may not have a static problem or some other electrical affect from below the floor may have something to do with it. All I can say is the sound clearly changed for the better.
With that I decided to make as simple a lifter as I could. I chose wood as it is easy to work with and as far as I know it doesn't conduct electricty or much vibration.
I made mostly single posts with a recess the the top. Two of them have 3 adjustable arms for the criss-cross of wires behind my preamp. Making the lifters different heights made it easier to support cables on different pieces of equipment.
Try some CD cased under your cables and see if it makes a difference. There is no cost involved and it might help.
Before I thought about a design for them I figured I would try somthing simple and find out if it would affect the sound.
I took some old plastic CD cases and opened them up like little tents and placed them under all of the interconnects and speaker cables on the left side of the system.
My logic -although often suspect- was by placing them only on the left side and listening to a piece of music I was familar with, and had just listen to should make an immediate difference if it was going to have any affect. There would either be a shift in the sound stage and image to the left or right if they had some affect or stay the same if there was no affect.
I was listening to Diana Krall "Girl in the other room" for my compairson.
The image,much to my suprise moved to the left by about 12" ( my CLS's are 64" from inside frame to frame ) and was much more pronounced and clearer.
I then placed some little plastic tents under the right side cables and the image and stage moved back to the center and had the same new clarity as the left side had shown.
The sound was clearly better with the lifters in.
This may not be true for all systems and cables. The fact that I use unsheilded Shunyata Altair & Andromeda cables and they were laying on carpeting that may or may not have a static problem or some other electrical affect from below the floor may have something to do with it. All I can say is the sound clearly changed for the better.
With that I decided to make as simple a lifter as I could. I chose wood as it is easy to work with and as far as I know it doesn't conduct electricty or much vibration.
I made mostly single posts with a recess the the top. Two of them have 3 adjustable arms for the criss-cross of wires behind my preamp. Making the lifters different heights made it easier to support cables on different pieces of equipment.
Try some CD cased under your cables and see if it makes a difference. There is no cost involved and it might help.