Mapleshade Gibraltar Speaker Stands - Cherry

I am the original owner of these TOTL solid Pennsylvania Maple stands from Maplshade. They were used with my Nola Boxers to stunning effect. The bass especially became truly world-class. I have sold my Boxers so now the stands must go too. There are in the cherry finish, which has a few scratches from moving the speakers around. The brass is in fantastic condition. Comes with everything you see. Truly a great upgrade. New these are $975. They are approximately 12” x 12” and 10” high with 2” footers. The back speaker supports are 7” apart. Buyer can pay for shipping – which will not be cheap as they are heavy – but local pick-up is preferred (Los Angeles area). Buyer is also responsible for any fees. Here is the description from the Mapleshade website:

The Gibraltar is our very best stand for monitor speakers and smaller floorstanders. Each 12" x 12" solid maple Gibraltar base has 3½ times the mass of our Bedrock stands. This, combined with its unique doubleplinth design, is an especially dramatic performance upgrade in listening rooms with concrete or engineered wood floors. The Gibraltar raises speakers 10" off the floor, allowing them to fire over obstructions in the soundstage (like coffee tables) while still utilizing the sonic benefit of low-mounting the woofer. They will make your monitor speakers sound better than any other speaker stand—at any price. Each Gibraltar directly couples to the floor via four threaded 2" brass footers. Two brass rear support posts and an adjustable, four pound brass footer locks each speaker to its stand.


On The Floor Mounting Concept:

Only low, on-the-floor mounting can make smallish speakers sound so huge, warm and transparent. Optimized tiltback positioning, combined with super-solid maple base and heavy vibration-draining brass feet, yields amazing transients and details. Percussion and piano attacks gain startling potency. Ditto for bass power and articulation—enough to cross those subwoofers off your wish list. Surprisingly, the soundstage image floats well above the floor. Here's the physics:

• The highly rigid maple/brass mounting drains sound-muddying vibrations out of the cabinet into the floor far more effectively and cleanly than any tall stand. The improvement in warmth and midrange detail over hollow metal stands is striking.

• Mounting the woofer close to the floor eliminates the sound-thinning mid and upper bass suckout caused by high-mounted woofers (the famous Allison effect). It also provides a 3 db acoustic boundary reinforcement from the lowest bass upwards.

• The direct, rigid coupling to the floor lets the speaker drive the floor at bottom octave frequencies, thereby greatly increasing the bass radiating area.

• Lastly, the adjustable tiltback allows you to time align perfectly the leading edge attacks of the tweeter and woofer, by ear. The higher the tiltback, the higher the image floats off the floor.


Ordering Tips:

• We recommend all potential Gibraltar customers try a simple experiment to hear the benefits of low mounting: listen to one of your favorite tracks with the speakers sitting on the floor in front of their current stands, tilted back with a wood or metal block under the front with the tweeter aimed slightly above your ear. If your floor is carpeted, lay down a heavy plank or cutting board first. Then put the speakers back on their stands and listen to the same track again. This preview lets you hear about a third of the bass improvement you'll get from Gibraltars, but none of the treble and midrange improvements.

• We custom-mount the speaker rear support posts for all time-correcting stands to ensure optimal performance for the specific speaker being used. Please be sure to include your speaker cabinet dimensions in the space provided above when ordering.

• When specifying speaker dimensions, be sure to provided the width of the rear, bottom edge of the speaker cabinet. Please also make us aware of any tapering, bevels or other distinctive design elements of the cabinet shape that might affect the placement or functionality of the Bedrock rear speaker support posts.

• For best performance on uncarpeted floors, choose our standard footer option.

• To avoid leaving dings on expensive hardwood floors, use our radiused footer options.

• On carpet, it is essential for the points of the Gibraltar's footers to penetrate the rug and contact the solid floor underneath.

• For high pile carpet with padding (more than 1/2" deep), you need thick carpet footers to penetrate to the floor.

• For thin commercial wall-to-wall carpet (less than 1/2"), thin carpet footers will sound slightly better than the thick carpet version.