Mapleshade or Butcher Block Acoustics

Keep in mind (at least with Maple Shade) if you order a custom color, if it warps, it is non-returnable. I speak from personal experience. Apparently the 2/3 year drying isn't sufficient.

The ones mentioned in the original post both look nice. I went cheap and bought some Boos Block Hard Rock maple cutting boards for under my monoblocks and my Audio Research integrated. I bought them more for practical purposes than for sound. I didn’t want the monoblocks sitting on the carpeted floor and the AR piece hung out over the front and back of the shelf I had it on, so the Boos Block gave it a more solid place to rest and kept the weight on the feet and the air flowing under it.  With a name like Hard Rock maple, they must be perfect for music, right?

One can only hope? 

flip49er,

I have Mapleshade planks under stuff. No company offers a SOLID chunk of wood. They are all multiple pieces glued together.  Likely, impossible to offer a real, one piece of 4" maple for a price someone is willing to pay?  I believe laminated is structurally stronger than one piece, so less chance of warpping.

Mapleshade does a great job with their marketing of them. How could an Amish finished piece of wood NOT improve life?

Everyone's experience will be different, as mentioned in posts. I THINK I hear improvement with them under my table,CD and sub?I had an unused one, so it went under the amp. That move for whatever reason, seems to add a subtle bump in increased reality? Whatever it is, the planks make my $150 Sanus rack look not so plain.

Also had slabs under the floorstanders(cherry stained to match-stunning) Ditched them because the room is now hardwood and couldn't hear any sonic benefit between carpet/wood floor.