Mapleshade-Pierre Sprey

Interesting history of the brass and maple guy. Unfortunate passing.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/10/in-pursuit-of-clarity-the-intellect-and-intellectual-integri...

I had the scary looking power cord, ribbon IC's(actually good) and expensive maple slabs-still in use, but just for appearance.

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jjss49 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,612 posts 08-11-2021 at 04:45am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete pierre was a character, but a brilliant man, and really thought things through from first principles, rarely accepted conventional wisdom at face value we had several conversations over the years, always engaging, funny, enlightening conversations (for me at least hehehe)... what i liked about him is that he was articulate, could properly explain the logic behind his beliefs, he was intellectually honest in thinking through counterarguments, thus could handle real debate i am a fan of mapleshade’s solid core speaker cables still... losing pierre is certainly a loss for the audiophile community for sure... rip
jjss49 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,612 posts 03-30-2022 at 11:06pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pierre-sprey-dead/2021/08/20/fe995430-ff6e-11eb-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html wonderful read...