'No Industry Defrauds You Like The Audio Industry'

[Barry]

Are the spiked cable lifters directional? In other words is their orientation important?

I still maintain that the location of the equipment be such so that all the cables follow 'lay lines'.

[Pigmy Pony]

Are the spiked cable lifters directional? In other words is their orientation important?

I still maintain that the location of the equipment be such so that all the cables follow 'lay lines'.

Yes i think the orientation will be important, and having mine pointing the wrong way is probably the reason I heard no improvement.

[Lawrence001]

You probably did something stupid like having them pointing from your amp to your speakers. You need to get one of those dowsing sticks to work out where they should go.

[rigger67]

I remember back in the late 80s/early 90s one of the mags giving away some directional stickers to place on your turntable platter and even on your actual records (on the labels) to create some kind of beneficial effect on the sound.

They made snake oil seem quite reasonable ...

[Lawrence001]

Apart from Judas Priest albums saying "do it" backwards I can't see the benefit of directionality in records.

[Pigmy Pony]

You probably did something stupid like having them pointing from your amp to your speakers. You need to get one of those dowsing sticks to work out where they should go.

Have you seen the price of those audiophile-grade dowsing sticks? I decided to use one I found in the garden, perhaps that's where I went wrong, sometimes you really do get what you pay for.

[Pigmy Pony]

Wasn't there a Beatles recording which ended with "Paul McCartney is dead" or something recorded backwards, or was someone having me on?

[struth]

‘Paul Is Dead’: The Bizarre Story of Music’s Most Notorious Conspiracy Theory

The whole phenomenon, however accidentally, shows how crazy and devoted fan love can get.

Fifty years ago, a Detroit DJ accidentally started the biggest hoax in rock & roll history: the “Paul is dead” craze. It blew up on October 12, 1969, when Russ Gibb was hosting his show on WKNR. A mysterious caller told him to put on the Beatles’ White Album and spin the “number nine, number nine” intro from “Revolution 9” backwards. When Gibb tried it on the air, he heard the words, “Turn me on, dead man.” The clues kept coming. At the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” John says, “I buried Paul.” What could it all mean?.
It meant the Beatles were hiding a secret: Paul McCartney got killed in a car crash back in 1966, and the band replaced him with an imposter. The rumor spread like wildfire, as fans searched their Beatle albums for clues. Fifty years later, “Paul is dead” remains the weirdest and most famous of all music conspiracy theories. It became a permanent part of Beatles lore—a totally fan-generated phenomenon that the band could only watch with amusement or exasperation. As Paul told Rolling Stone in 1974, “Someone from the office rang me up and said, ‘Look, Paul, you’re dead.’ And I said, ‘Oh, I don’t agree with that.’”
Needless to say, it wasn’t true — Paul is not just gloriously alive, he’s still peaking as a songwriter and performer, debuting at Number One last year with Egypt Station. But after the Detroit radio broadcast, people pounced on the story. Two days later, the Michigan Daily explained the Abbey Road cover as a funeral procession: the Preacher (John in white), the Undertaker (Ringo in black), the Corpse (poor Macca). And bringing up the rear, George in blue denim as the grave-digger—man, even in the conspiracy theories, George gets shafted with the dirty work.

Here’s how the rumor went, as summed up by Nicholas Schaffner in The Beatles Forever: Paul died on November 9, 1966. He drove away from Abbey Road late the night before — a “stupid bloody Tuesday” — then blew his mind out in a car. He was Officially Pronounced Dead (“O.P.D.”) on Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock, which is why George points to that line on the Sgt. Pepper sleeve, while Paul wears an “O.P.D.” patch. But the other Beatles decided to hush up the news, so Wednesday-morning papers didn’t come. Somehow, they kept Paul’s death a secret, replaced him with a look-alike, then dropped sly hints about the cover-up scam. The imposter wrote “Hey Jude” and “Blackbird,” which means he’s the guy who probably should have had Paul’s job in the first place.
Fans began whispering about all the clues on the just-released Abbey Road. Look at that cover — Paul’s barefoot, out of step with the others, holding a cigarette in his right hand. (The real Paul was a lefty.) The Volkswagen with the “28 IF” license plate — that’s how old Paul would have been if he were still alive. (He was 27.) No theory was too ridiculous to get taken seriously. Fans eagerly believed “walrus” is Greek for corpse (it isn’t — it’s Scandinavian) or that “goo goo goo joob” is what Humpty Dumpty says in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, before his fatal fall off the wall. (Nope, sorry.) “I Am the Walrus” ends with a live BBC broadcast of a fatal scene from Shakespeare’s King Lear, with Oswald groaning, “O, untimely death!” (That one’s true—John just taped it off the radio one night and liked how it fit the song.) And in “Glass Onion,” John sings, “Here’s another clue for you all / The Walrus was Paul.”

[hifinutt]

enjoyed that video thanks , ashamed to say i tried those telos xlr plugs once !!

[Qwin]

Never used cable lifters myself, along with fancy expensive mains leads, its a step to far for me.
I was surprised to see cable lifters (ceramic) used in a vinyl cutting studio in a TV documentary.
The reporter stood on and nearly tripped over the cable, knocked it off the blocks.