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Well, Stephen, we at Ayre have found wood to be a highly beneficial material for many applications in audio. Not only do we sell myrtle wood blocks to support components and cables, but many of the layers of the plinth of the dps turntable we import are special-grade baltic birch.
We have found that wood makes excellent component racks; baltic-birch plywood for thinner shelves and butcher-block maple for thicker shelves. (MDF and particle board do not really count as "wood".)
I was an early adopter of what was perhaps the earliest wood bodied phono cartridge (and, I believe, the one that started that craze) nearly fifteen years ago, the Benz-Micro Wood. All of my personal phono cartridges have had wood bodies since (although I admit that I have a body-less Ortofon A90 waiting to be mounted).
All-in-all, we have had such good experiences with wood (in audio -- where is your mind?), that we have developed a saying: "Wood is Good!"
Cheers, and thanks for the fun show reporting!