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In Reply to: considering a DIY amp stand; would granite or marble make good or bad choices? posted by Green Lantern on January 8, 2013 at 15:07:11:
shelviong I have found is spruce. I have been advocating that audiophiles take a lesson from instrument makers who have been experimenting with materials for centuries. Spruce is the favored material for piano soundboards, and that instrument has probably the greatest range of any instrument ( well, maybe excpet for an organ). It is also the favored material for the soundboard of a harp as well as the tops of violins, guitars and other stringed instruments.Some will proclaim that the use of spruce is merely adding euphonic distortion. Definitely not so: finer nuances of the performance are more readily heard and a more natural tonality is put forth. This works with solid state electronics as well as tubed.
The picture is of a spruce shelf made from an old piano soundboard that I made. The spruce is simply butt jointed and the ribs are laid 90 degrees to the planking. This one was from a 1901 Steinway, BTW: the soundboard had developed too many cracks and needed to be replaced.
Implementation is the key. You can not lay the spruce flat on another support: it will spound very dead. The spruce must be elevated above the existing shelving and the weight sort of cantilevered upon the shelf. I have used simple spruce planking and achieved the same effect. The spruce support must be at the far edges of the shelving or planking. Of course for your amp at least a one inch thick spruce plank would be necessary.
Use of spruce in this manner creates a most organic sound quality, one which when implemented under digital components can elevate their sound to vinyl status.
Of course. YMMV.
Stu
Edits: 01/09/13
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- The best sounding material for - unclestu 11:56:33 01/09/13 (9)
- Interesting. - R Browne 18:51:55 01/09/13 (7)
- RE: Interesting. - pixelphoto 22:23:07 01/13/13 (1)
- That's the place. nt. - R Browne 22:30:58 01/13/13 (0)
- check this rascal out - Green Lantern 14:31:20 01/10/13 (3)
- That's cheap - unclestu 15:39:03 01/10/13 (2)
- yep; and if it doesn't work out I can always present it to the wife! - Green Lantern 20:53:43 01/13/13 (1)
- FWIW - unclestu 22:04:30 01/13/13 (0)
- There's - unclestu 21:51:13 01/09/13 (0)
- sorry forgot the photo - unclestu 11:57:46 01/09/13 (0)
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