Mapleshade Custom Maple Audio Racks

August 19th, 2016
By: Carlin "Rick" Smith

There are certainly countless high quality audiophile racks out there but one that we are particularly fond of are those made by hand by Mapleshade.  Their racks, speaker plinths, and amp platforms with brass footers and other hardware are a great addition to an audiophile system and could be argued are a "component."

From Mapleshade's web site:

"We've helped countless customers upgrade their audio and home theater systems using our Vibration Control System. Lots of customers use our air-dried Maple Platforms to isolate gear from the distorting resonances of flimsy MDF-and-hollow-tubing equipment racks. But you'll get even better sound AND improved image quality with a massively solid, ultra-rigid rack designed from the ground up for resonance-free, maple-based vibration control. Thats how we designed the SAMSON. 

Introduced in 2002, SAMSON racks were specifically designed to improve the sound of any music or home cinema system. Despite the natural beauty of our handcrafted Ambrosian Maple shelves, the SAMSON is not merely good looking A/V furniture. Each 2" or 4" air-dried maple shelf is rigidly locked between custom-machined, solid brass nuts that are threaded onto massive, 1" solid steel uprights, then anchored to the floor via our threaded-on brass footers. This creates the most direct, rigid and resonance free vibration-draining path of any equipment rack available today.  Our SAMSON Vibration Control System sounds better than the most exotic welded tubing, damped layer composite, or inlaid hardwood racks, even those costing $6000 and up."

Check them out at Mapleshade Records

Several customer installations can be found at the following link