Hi mfgroup,
Can you explain the 'cable lifters' and perhaps what advantages they have over placing cables on the floor, like I currently have.
Thanks Richard
Hi, Richard. I know that many here like numbers, so I will provide data from the manufacturer.
It seems to me that the whole point is in the additional capacitance, which works as a filter (together with the inductance and capacitance of the cable itself).
On my own behalf, I’ll add that a cable lying on the floor feels dull and indistinct, more blurred, and loses dynamics and its airiness.
Accordingly, decouplings towers give good resolutions improve clarity, focus, and remove some blurriness. Peak sounds in the dynamics are handled well, and high frequencies are separated very well. An even bigger advantage is that they normalize the tonal balance. In general, this is what good decouplings should do.
The funny thing is that it even works on cables that are just hanging in the air (although this is the best option if there are no decouplings). Apparently the point is that the cable under its own weight has nonlinear stresses along its entire length due to weight or touching something. The uniform arrangement on the supports compensates for this. And yes, again, this sounds funny, but they also improve the sound of a cable hanging in the air (I mean those cases when the cables are twisted into rings or something else to prevent them from touching the floor). Of course, this does not work on short cables that do not require supports.