Has anyone come across these before? I thought they seemed pretty cheap even if they give a small audible benefit. Saw them for sub £30 for a 4 pack. I have, out of habit, always used pipe lagging to lift cables slightly off the floor. Not sure what difference it makes as I have never done an AB test for obvious reason as it takes a while to get it all on!
If nothing else these Titan lifters may improve the aesthetics!
If your idea of good aesthetics includes silhouettes of Roman soldiers every few feet on your floor.
I assume these are stickers and easy to remove!
Replace them with those from your favorite football team.
Any science behind these cable lifting devices or is this a problem only affecting the Hi-Fi world ?
Was going to say very easy and cheap to make yourself, but what difference do these make really? As any vibrations from the floor will go straight up them and I guess good old pipe laging with lots of trapped air pockets might be actually better, but look crap
vibrations from the floor are attenuated. The sound is a bit better, i have also some speakers cables lifters.
You use something similar? It works? What does it do to the music? I am way too lazy to make my own so thats out! Pipe lagging looks terrible and the kids like to eat it!!
I did look for some reviews online but saw nothing. @frenchrooster you do have great skills for finding things from the deepest parts of the internet so if you do find a review can you post it please?
Interesting. How are they attenuated, given the solid contact from the floor through the upright to the cable?
Could it be that the lifter raises the cable off the carpet, so preventing carpet mites from inducing vibrations in the cable as they dance along to the beat of the electrical signal that is passing through the cable?
Poor mites.
Furutech NCF Boosters, now those claim all sorts of scientific explanation for their effectiveness and eye watering price. They get great on-line reviews which you can find via a brief internet search.
(not a serious post!) BF
this one for example. I use cardas myrtille cable lifters. ( same color as my wood).
https://audiophilereview.com/cables/cable-lifters-redux-part-1-of-2.html
i can just say that it has improved a very little bit the sound. My floor is wood moving, if you understand what i mean.
i use that.
while accepting a steady flow of current through their copper, silver and gold-plated conductors. Then, all of a sudden, audiophile missionaries decided to colonize my listening room. They righteously demanded that I dress these savage cables and prohibit them from ever lying down in parallel again! According to the sermons of the missionaries, if the cables must cross paths, each must be perpendicular to the other to prevent RFI and crosstalk. Rearranging my cables resulted in audible improvement so I went along with the fervent faithful.
After visiting the Dedicated Audio room at CES this year, I requested a review sample of the Cable Towers to hear for myself the added benefits of suspending cables above a carpeted floor. According Daniel Harmon from Dedicated Audio, the static electricity produced by my builder’s grade wall-to-wall carpet can have audible effects on speaker and power cables left lying around whose electromagnetic field around the conductors won’t develop properly surrounded by static charges. The Cable Towers are designed to turn your power and speaker cables into an elevated electrical highway.
The Cable Towers are lightweight and the spikes are not able to pierce carpet so you may have to play around a little to make sure they offer optimal support without tipping over. As long as you aren’t constantly changing out your cables, this should not be a problem. It took a while for me to arrange the Cable towers under my heavier power cables but the experience was never tedious. Some of the arrangements included loops, spirals and figure eights. I haven’t had this much fun since I helped my daughter set up her Hot Wheels track last Christmas!
Removing the Cable Towers for comparison was definitely a step in the wrong direction. “What the hell is my carpet doing to my stereo?” was scribbled in my listening notes. Comparatively, the music shone weakly through a less-transparent window, dynamic range was reduced, the toms sounded more like plastic buckets than drums and the grinding crunch of the heavy guitars was less crunchy - like cereal that sits too long in milk. I couldn’t wait to switch back and continue listening with the Cable Towers again.
For a more challenging recording, Holbrooke’s first piano concerto on Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series [67127, 2000] offered a wider dynamic range. The third movement opens with crashing cymbals, blaring trombones and grand piano flourishes. With the Cable Towers, this piece had more dynamic room to stretch out - from subtle string ornaments to grand orchestral swoops. The silence behind the music sounded quieter, indicating that the Cable Towers managed to remove some noise in my cables. The resolution of the recording also sounded better. It was much easier to distinguish Hamish Milne’s piano playing in passages where the piano has to force its way above the sound of the entire orchestra.
Removing the Cable Towers made the noise from my carpet more apparent. The music sounded distorted in comparison. When Milne played massive chords on the piano, the instrument sounded grainy as if the notes were blurred together. The clarity of the higher frequencies was also lessened so that the sharp attacks of the hammers on the strings sounded rounded off. Like early spring in North Carolina when the bright green plants are covered in yellow pollen, the musical colors were tainted. The effect of the Cable Towers was like a spring shower that washed off the pollen-covered trees and revived the vivid greens of new life. 
Speaking of green, I recently indulged in the extended St. Patrick’s Day sale on the Green Linnet website . This site should be a model for other music sites because almost all of the albums for sale can be heard in their entirety via low-res streaming audio. If you want people to buy more music, let them hear it. This type of marketing certainly convinced me - I have purchased four Green Linnet CDs so far.
Old Blind Dogs [Fit?, Green Linnet, 2001] is a Scottish band that plays traditional folk music with percussion instruments borrowed from other cultures. They also feature fine singing in a thick Scottish accent. I played the song “Tatties and Herrin” to hear how my system with the Cable Towers would resolve a capella male voices. The Cable Towers again made the music sound clean and relaxed - especially in the higher frequencies. I couldn’t understand the Scottish brogue any better but I could appreciate the improved rendering of sibilants and the enunciation of the singers. The four male voices blended nicely without sounding homogenized. Without the Cable Towers, the music sounded more grainy and flatter. The singers did not have the same presence in my listening space and there was less depth and width to the soundstage. It sounded like they were singing behind a thin curtain in a smaller room. The
Cable Towers worked like a good conditioner and removed frizzy distortion while keeping enough body to allow the music to flow more naturally.
Conclusion - Hearing Things
After this experience, I am convinced that all of your cables should be off the floor. However, because the Cable Towers are passive devices, please don’t expect them to cure any deficiencies inherent in your music system. The Cable Towers simply made it easier for my music system to sound its best. Also, while I could speculate about which cables should be locked in the Cable Towers for the greatest sonic impact, the ultimate decision is dependent on your cables resting on your shag carpet, braided rug or jute mat. If, after reading this review, you are curious about the Cable Towers and have your cables lying on a carpeted floor, I highly recommend arranging for an in-home demo. You might be as surprised as I was.
I did look around the AudioAsylum to see what types of cable lifters people are recommending, everything from used toilet paper rolls to CD jewel cases. If you really want an alternative way to lift your cables off the floor, please do it with some style. My wife looked at me funny when I propped her CD player on top of three tennis balls for resonance control; I can just imagine her response to toilet
paper rolls on the floor of the listening room! I have not heard the cable elevators which are priced competitively with the Cable Towers. However, I haven’t been won over by their porcelain appearance. The acrylic Cable Towers have classic lines and were stylish without looking gaudy.
Of course, the Cable Towers are not just another audio-bauble to visually show off to your friends - they have been designed specifically for home audio applications. Musically, they delivered according to plan. They were also a lot of fun to set up and creatively arrange on the floor of my listening room. They helped my music system sound more transparent and display greater resolution, which made me a very happy savage. As for the missionaries? Well, they’re okay as long as they don’t stay for more than three days and keep away from the sweet spot on the futon. After all, a savage’s island is his castle!
Hi Mike,
you asked for some technical background:
Low capacitance-to-ground (or surroundings) is one of the main goals of the Cable Tower. Lower influences equates to less signal degradation, coloration and smear. We can achieve better tests results over the porcelain powerline insulators due to our lower dielectric constant, unique patent-pending design and lower contact surface area.
Insertion capacitance is the capacitance gain each elevator (or Cable Tower) introduces into the signal path. As you can see, each porcelain insertion capacitance value is nearly 4 x greater than that of Cable Tower. For example, should a listener insert 4 risers per cable, the porcelain insulator will introduce nearly 16 x greater insertion capacitance per channel over the Cable Tower. Again, Cable Tower shows superior performance over the porcelain high-tension power pole insulator; lower capacitance and less signal degradation.
We are very proud of our product. We took nearly a year to design and introduce to market. We wanted to be sure we got it right the first time. Within the brief four months since introduction at CES 2005, we have captured a substantial force of domestic and international dealers. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Daniel Harmon
Dedicated Audio LLC
Manufacturer’s website
Think I will go a buy a few sky hooks as that should work better lol
Hmmm…
On the other hand, these cable lifters serve a useful purpose…
James,
your cable lifters are much easier to vacuum under than FR’s!
They are shockingly good - electrifying is what i like to call them 
It‘s Voodoo, and truly Voodoo works 
with your little system i feel you will hear nothing with that uplifters. For myself it’s minimal.
