Mapleshade or Butcher Block Acoustics


Needing an amp stand for my Pass XA 30.8 and from what I am reading, maple is the way to go.

So, does anyone have experience between Mapleshade and Butcher Block Acoustics?
flip49er
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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.

19mm 13-ply Baltic Birch ply is stiffer and less resonant than a plank of solid or laminated Maple. Some drum companies offer shells fabricated from Birch (most notably the German-made Sonor, the Rolls Royce of drum companies), for a sound somewhat different than the more common alternating-Maple/Gumwood 3/4/5/6-ply shells of other drum companies

The Radio King drums of the 30’s/40’s/50’s (played by Gene Krupa) had solid Maple shells (not plywood), and are very resonant and "woody" sounding (I have two sets of 1950’s Radio Kings). There is one contemporary drum company (Craviotto. John was [R.I.P.] a Santa Cruz-based drummer who was in Neil Young’s band in the 70’s, and one lineup of Moby Grape) making 1-piece, solid Maple shells, and they are very resonant (no glue between plies---there are no plies!).

So ya’ll like the sonority Maple adds to the sound of your systems?

No one should want one solid piece of wood because it will warp. That's why builders use amended wood etc.
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