Ampendage Amp Stand Blog
We just want “world peace”
I found some old snips that I made of amp stand search results that google generated. Looking at them it struck me – which stand would win in a beauty contest? Judge for yourself:
Fun with AI
I’ve been meaning to play with AI image generators to get some whimsical content for my posts and today I finally tried it. Here’s my very first attempt. The prompt was something like “A village in the mountains where the houses resemble enlarged Ampendage amp stands.” I also gave it a link to my gallery […]
Tariffs postponed (as far as I can tell)
The last I heard, the De Minimis tariff exemption has been temporarily reinstated. That means, for now, there should be no tariff’s on our amp stands entering the US. This is all very confusing, I may be wrong. If I am please let me know at sales@ampendage.com. Thanks.
Tariff Update
I shipped a stand to the US today via Purolator and their website had a message indicating that the US has suspended the previous policy of not applying tariffs to items valued less than $800. It said to expect a 10% tariff. Sorry folks.
Tariff news
Unfortunately for our American friends, the total cost of an Ampendage Amp Stand has gone up overnight. As of February 1st the US has imposed tariffs on Canadian and Chinese goods of 25% and 10% respectively. The Ampendage was designed in and is sold from Canada. And it’s manufactured in China. We’re not sure what […]
Musical Neighbour
I found out this past winter that my next door neighbor is a bass player. So of course I had to give him one of our stands. He loves it – said I could post this picture. We’re currently putting an addition on our house that should give me a dedicated music space. I might […]
16 Years and going strong
You may not know it from our blog entries, but yes, we’re still selling amp stands. This month marks sixteen years in business. I probably would have forgotten when exactly I started Ampendage Industries but it just so happened that I met my wife one week after the web site went live. That was at […]
Assembly and Review Video
I just received a video from Jason Fryer of Tone King Records where he assembles a teak stand and talks about how the stand can help the sound quality of your recordings. He clearly knows a lot more about recording than I do. It hadn’t occurred to me that the angle of the stand can […]
Ready to ship!
Just a note to let everyone know that we are not affected by the shipping bottlenecks that many companies are currently experiencing. We have lots of inventory in stock. We are located in Canada and usually ship via UPS, so most orders will arrive in Canada or the continental US within five business days. (Of […]
Behind the scenes
I don’t know if it’s because of Covid but sales in the past six months have been about 50% higher than normal. And positive feedback is up too – I’ve heard three different people comment on how much the Ampendage improves the sound of their amp (by simply decoupling it from the floor). With so […]