Mapleshade boards under speakers

Hello Oregonpapa if you are still out there...
Ref: your 2-12-11 experiment with two 12"x12"x2" marble platforms under each speaker. I would be curious about the performance of the marble if you removed the sandwich of damping material between the slabs. Would improvement result and possibly approach that of the 18x15 mapleshade set up? It seems to me that the sandwich of damping would kill the base response as described in the rocking on the carpet example in article at http://www.audioholics.com/education/loudspeaker-basics/speaker-spikes-and-cones-2013-what2019s-the-point.

Hi all ! There is nothing special about maple and especially about the "special" maple which is sold by Mapleshade . All woods have their unique sonic signature , maple may sound great in one system , cocobola may sound great in another . " Draining vibrations " Pleeeaazzze . Something with weight and inert imho is best under speakers .

Bradluke, I think you are right on this topic. The wood is dense, heavy and essentially inert. When you connect your gear via pointed cones into/onto the wood, it stablizes the equipment, thereby dampening whatever vibration the gear may be experiencing. With tubed gear, in my case, a preamp with microphonic prone, 60+ year old 6SN7s, holding it still, is important. Some people may call this "draining" vibration. I grant you that poetic license should not be a license to steal, in the way we sometimes see it used.

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Using the maple platforms under my speakers has transformed the bass response. There is no way I would ever return to the speakers just spiked through the carpet again.

Just as an aside ... Audiogon, please return the font to that previously used before the change. Thanks.

The customized screw-in brass footers have been great for my Dali MS4 and now MS5. I use lots of their boards and cones, always to positive effect.