QUALITY SOUND AND VIDEO FOR HOME THEATER

You can’t have a truly great home theater by simply buying expensive equipment. Great picture quality—vibrant color, superb image resolution and endless shadow detail—requires careful attention to each component’s wires and each component’s vibration mounting. Our painstaking viewing tests prove that Mapleshade’s audio breakthroughs—whether in disc/media treatment, wire design, or vibration control—improve video as dramatically as they improve sound.

Cables For Audio and Video Source Components: he easiest first step is to install our new Vivilink HDMI cable from your source directly into your display. Try to avoid routing the video signal through a receiver or other switching device; this visibly degrades image quality. Next—run separate audio cabling for sound, don’t use HDMI audio. For two channel audio, use our Analog Ribbon interconnects from the source to your amp or pre-amp. For multi-channel systems, use a Clearview or Omega Mikro digital cable to connect to your surround processor. You’ll be astounded by the improvement compared to using an optical cable.

Power Conditioning For Home Theater: Start by installing a single Clearview AC Power Cord on your video monitor, processor, DVD, Blu-Ray or cable/satellite box (we have a simple AC kit for replacing fixed cords) and you will transform your picture quality. Do all of them and you will be staggered! Customers tell us the difference is larger than 720i versus 1080p, particularly for plasmas and LCDs. Replacing your line conditioner with our Power Conditioning Strip or Power Stratum will take your home theater another giant step forward in both video and audio quality.

Vibration Control For Video Sources And Displays: You'll get startling better color and resolution when you mount your cable or satellite HD receiver using our brass footers on air-dried maple platforms. Ditto for Blu-Ray and DVD players, home theater receivers, even your video monitor (LCDs, plasmas, and digital projector systems are equally vibration-sensitive). Go one step further and get a Samson rack to vibration mount all your components at once. You'll greatly improve your picture quality, add punch and clarity to your audio, and enhance the aesthetic of your home theater with the elegant beauty of our SAMSON's handcrafted Ambrosian Maple shelving—-all in one fell swoop.

Speaker Wires For Ultimate Surround Sound: For a quick, dramatic sonic upgrade, high priority is replacing your Monster cables, or other famous high end brand speaker cable, with our amazing Golden Helix, Golden Parallel or Double Helix speaker cables. Just for perspective, our $280 Double Helix has bested the $7000 Nordost Valhalla in every known shoot-off to date. The risk in trying our speaker cables is zero because, as with the rest of our products, we back our strong claims with a 30 day money back guarantee.

Vibration Control For Surround Speakers and Subs: After addressing speaker cabling, the top priority for upgrading the sound of your home theater audio is vibration control mounting for your main speakers, surround speakers, and subwoofer(s). If your theater room has carpet (or tile) over a concrete floor, our air-dried maple speaker stands will be a huge upgrade. Concrete weakens and enormously muddies bass while rolling off and harshening the treble. Short of constructing a fully-suspended wood floor, our Maple speaker stands are the most effective solution -- and much less expensive. Use our Maple Plinths under floorstandering speakers. Use our Maple Bedrock, Maple Gibraltar or Rooted Buttress Stands under stand-mounted monitors. Though concrete is the worst possible offender, our maple stands will impressively improve the sound quality of any speaker mounted -- whether mounted on laminate floor, "engineered" wood, or carpet-over-plywood.

Home Theater Speakers and Subwoofers: Upgrading left and right mains yields far more bang for the buck than spreading the wealth among 5 (or 7) speakers. Matching our Modded S30s with a TR-1 subwoofer yields high quality sound with a modest pricetag. Unless you're ready to spend beyond $20k, the best mains we've heard are the Gallo Reference Stradas with Mapleshade's custom-tailored Upgrade Stands. Pairing Stradas with our modded TR-3D subwoofers is an incomparable front end for any home theater at any price.