Twenty-five years ago, even before starting Mapleshade Studio, I jumped into my first high end design project: upgrading the legendary Maplenoll Turntable for air-bearing pioneer Bob Dilger. In 2007, with my love of collecting LPs and transforming turntables undiminished, I’ve come full circle.
My new Phonophile product family consists of upgrades that dramatically improve the sound of LPs. In addition to our acclaimed and often-imitated maple platform suspension and brass coupling system, I’ve designed five radically-new products I guarantee will yield great results. Two of them, our all-new approach to mounting records and mounting cartridges, are the direct outgrowth of Mapleshade’s 20 years of cutting edge vibration control R&D. Our steam-based record cleaning system is audibly more effective (and affordable!) than widely-touted megabuck machines. The last, our high-tech static draining record brush, comes right out of the R&D for our very successful Ionoclast static neutalizer.