Tweakers' Asylum

RE: Maple - I'm a believer

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Cpk

In Reply to: RE: Maple - I'm a believer posted by SamA on January 04, 2009 at 12:25:02

Put me down for liking it too. 1.5" and 3" thick work well in various apps.

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Yes, it is a matter of right matching. - cheap-Jack 13:08:14 01/06/09 (0)
Hi.

Some I-know-all audio vendor condemns the use of wood (anything except the "very best" "hard rock Maple butcher block" it carries) & granite/marble ("worst shelf materials possible" which it does not carry. Sales pitch or what?

My vinyls play live & musical, where my tapes & DVD-audio can't touch. I can simply say my cheapie tweak on my TT stand works out bigtime.

No pricy "hard rock Maple butcher blocks". No costly TT resonance control devies. Instead, my TT stand is built with a cheapie flimpsy
MDF board with 4-in-a-set tuned copper cones supporting the 4 feet of my Thorens TT. This MDF board 'floats' on 2 hollow concrete blocks (100-lb plus dead weight) via rubber cushion pads, which again 'float' on the wall-to-wall-carpetted concrete floor slab of my basement audio den via 3-in-a-set strong steel spikes. This wooden/concrete TT plafform cost me next to nothing. Yet, this decoupling-isoation-mass combination works bigtime.

When we talk about live music speed, my Thorens TT beats any digital, which includes my 24-bit 192KHz DVD-audio.

FYI, my tube power amp 'floats' on a 3" thick natural granite (sorry, not the 'recommended' dark gray type) via its 3-in-a-set steel spikes. The massy granite block again 'floats' on the carpetted floor slab via rubber cushion legs+resillient carpet guards. All noname home depot stuffs. Yet, it helps to make my music sound so live & musical.

So whoever said granite makes the "worse shelf materials" got to have its ears retuned.

c-J

PS: never listen to sales pitches. Listen to the music with yr ears.

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