able risers are not exactly news, nor are they universally used, accepted or even recommended. In fact, even those who advocate them have trouble agreeing on what they do or how they do it. None of this is, of course, any reason to ignore them.
The path of product development is rarely linear and universally positive, and such has been the
case with Furutech’s simple but simply invaluable DeStat, a handheld device designed to
disperse static charges found on CDs, but is equally effective on vinyl discs, metal or plastic driver
diaphragms and a host of other audio-related items.
f the lengths of wire that connect the various parts of our audio systems, the phono cable is the most specialized, and this makes it the easiest to muck up as well. The infinitesimal signal coming from a phono cartridge, which is measured in fractions of a millivolt for low-output moving-coil cartridges, is far more susceptible to the harmful effects of noise than more robust line-level signals.
