Mapleshade cables & products
I'd certainly be interested in your experience with Mapleshade cables with any of the voodoo they do to you.
I purchased and was pleased with the Mapleshade 4" maple amp stand with his ultimate triplepoints and cork/rubber supports. I talked to him about my setup and he recommended this for my amp on a concrete slab floor. It did noticeably tighten up the image and bass as well as producing more bass energy.
Unlike most of us who are merely critical listeners, he does have rather extensive experience with design of a variety of audio stuff, in addition to producing and recording some very well done cd’s with artists some of us know and like. Even his cd’s are returnable if you don’t like them. That he is willing to have a real dialogue is an additional plus.
As much as I wish I didn’t hear a difference between cables, I generally do. That being said, I think it all comes down to a matter of preference in one’s own system and room. There are so many variables between the musical event and the eventual reproduction of it in our rooms , that it seems very unlikely that the notion of an absolute sound has any validity. Since every element on the chain (room the event takes place in, microphones, cables, recording system, recording media, etc., ad infinitum) interacts and has an effect on the sound, including the room and its ambient temperature and humidity, the idea that there can ever be a sonic hologram of the event identical in any room seems to be the real voodoo. As it is, some cables do seem to produce an improvement in certain areas that are appealing to some listeners in their rooms with their systems.
Years ago, decades actually, the editor of Stereophile, Gordon Holt, wrote that to the extent that listeners followed more and more of the recommendations of a particular reviewer, the more correct his recommendations might seem to them because their systems would become more like his with the particular set of colorations his had. While I see some flaws in that line of reasoning, it seem much more reasonable.
I’d like to hear, or rather, read what That1WhiteKid’s feelings about the speaker cables are. My experience with his products, particualrly at their price points has been good.
