Mapleshade boards under speakers

Make sure it is the best kiln dried maple hand ruubed with just mineral or tung iol . I use 4" thick ones with oil finish and there is a very obvious changein my syste,. I now have very attractive slabs of very thick maple and brass cones. It look great. The system sound pretty much the way it always did it just loooks better.
Under my preamp a thick dampening pad had a obvious sonic impact. That is likely a function of keepining the tubes as still as I can. My Make shift pad is going to be replaced with a 5 inch tall sandbox of pure tiger maple if Timbernation sends it. I am gointo use finely powcered lead for damping and ballat atop giggantic brass feet I am making to order. They wiegh 20lbs a piece and will sit in a speceial high tension suspended cup. Total figure 100 KG- or 220lbs plus the pre.

Has anybody ever used a Sistrum speaker stand atop a Mapleshade platform?

I've used Sistrum and loved the results under speakers, amp and for a rack. But I like the idea of raising the speakers a few inches for soundstage height.

Johnmcalpin, I use a sistrum stand on top of 4-inch Mapleshade amp stands. My room is carpet over concrete. Unfortunately, I also use a cheap 1 1/2 foot wood speaker stand on top of the sistrum, so I can only hint at what you might want as an answer. Also, this situation is fragile(speakers have been knocked over.). The sistrum tightened the bass and was slightly less warm than when the speakers's stands just sat on the Mapleshade. I didn't like it at first, but decided that the extra bass and precision might be worth it. I will have to change this for security purposes, and I might be interested in Mapleshade's Gibraltor speaker stands.

My floorstanders on maple platforms thinned out a bit too much for my tastes. I use bamboo cutting boards and am more satisfied with the midrange.

Good thread ... I tried an experiment the other day: I have (and love) a pair of Legacy Sig IIIs. I was using just the speaker spikes driven through the carpet into the wood (raised) floor. I had two 12"x12"x2" marble platforms that consist of two marble slabs sandwiched with dampening material between each slab. I set the slabs on the floor using four of those expensive German brass cones underneath. Then the speakers went on top of the marble slabs using the existing brass speaker spikes. The improvement in the highs and mids were really something ... the best I've had so far. BUT ... there was no bass foundation. I took the speakers back to where they were before and the mids and highs were veiled in comparison ... but the bass was back. So, as as result of this thread, I ordered two 18x15 maple boards from Maple Shade. We'll see what happens and I'll report back. Happy listening everyone.