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whats the deal with those blocks to lift the cable off the ground? presumably snake oil drizzled over daft beliefs?
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Bingo. It's so ridiculous I've never bothered to look into why people do it.
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whats the deal with those blocks to lift the cable off the ground?
To create an air gap between unshielded conductors and solid ground, thus reducing parasitic capacitance. Obviously it's bollocks, since any effect is so far below the noise floor as to be irrelevant, so it falls in the homoeopathic field of endeavour.
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gbj_tester
Bet they sound epic, the story behind them is great too - super muso nerd working with the bleeding edge of speaker tech and technicians, money no object.
Jeff's boutique kettle leads, power conditioners, little blocks to lift speaker cables off the ground etc are hilarious.