Mahogany and Maple classic tone woods married in audio bliss. The GS2000e combines them in the same manner that luthiers have done for centuries and for the same reason: resonance. Different types of wood sing with their own personalities. The hand-crafted mahogany and maple  merged enclosures are a realization of the knowledge from the experience that only Grado Labs knows from working with wood. This technique is used by the finest musical instrument manufacturers from the past and the present. The use of Maple gives the energy of the sound of music to be fully transmitted then the Mahogany allows it to open up and reveal the true harmonic structure as well as the space that the artist intended