Shalom Larry,
Maple would have indeed been much better, but "real" wood is getting rare here and very expensive to buy. What I did, was to build two amp stands together with and for a friend, who has a pair of 75 kilo Gryphons, using a sandwhich of mfd, felt, lead, felt, mfd. The lead we could salvage from a defunct manufacturing plant for very little money. Since one Gryphon had to be placed very close to a subwoofer, we experimented with the felt to good effect. We placed the sandwich on a welded iron substructure, which again, with spikes, was placed on a big slab of granite. Overkill probably, but now, to quote Stu_pisado ( who certainly is not one...) once again, we are happily full of shit.
Maple would have indeed been much better, but "real" wood is getting rare here and very expensive to buy. What I did, was to build two amp stands together with and for a friend, who has a pair of 75 kilo Gryphons, using a sandwhich of mfd, felt, lead, felt, mfd. The lead we could salvage from a defunct manufacturing plant for very little money. Since one Gryphon had to be placed very close to a subwoofer, we experimented with the felt to good effect. We placed the sandwich on a welded iron substructure, which again, with spikes, was placed on a big slab of granite. Overkill probably, but now, to quote Stu_pisado ( who certainly is not one...) once again, we are happily full of shit.