Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Isolation

Replaced my Stillpoints Ultra SS with Gaia II under my YG Acoustics Carmels. Sitting on padded berber carpet over concrete. Tightened my bass and improved both image and soundstage...albeit slightly. Moved the Stillpoints under my Music Server, so this may have also contributed.
 
ptman said:
Replaced my Stillpoints Ultra SS with Gaia II under my YG Acoustics Carmels. Sitting on padded berber carpet over concrete. Tightened my bass and improved both image and soundstage...albeit slightly. Moved the Stillpoints under my Music Server, so this may have also contributed.
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ptman, Did you use the spiked cups under the GAIAs?
 
I replaced SVS isolation feet under ATC SCM19A actives on berber carpet with Gaia III's and the sound just opened up in every way, bottom to top. Saying that, someone posted elsewhere about the Arya Audio Labs Revopods being seriously better -- https://www.arya-audio.com/revopod. But they are made in the UK and by the time they get to U.S. retail the price is around $2K for a set of eight.
 
highstream said:
I replaced SVS isolation feet under ATC SCM19A actives on berber carpet with Gaia III's and the sound just opened up in every way, bottom to top. Saying that, someone posted elsewhere about the Arya Audio Labs Revopods being seriously better -- https://www.arya-audio.com/revopod. But they are made in the UK and by the time they get to U.S. retail the price is around $2K for a set of eight.
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Those look nice too. I bet they don’t have the finicky locking nut issue as the Gaia’s. :) that said , they’re not going anywhere.
 
Thanks. There was also one posted on YT from a show last year. By coincidence, a review of JL Audio’s Fathom subs was just published in StereoNet out of Australia, and the reviewer used spikes and rubber feet instead of something like Gaias or a platform, and thus got exactly what one would expect: slower and not as clear as smaller subs.
 
Not obvious to me why those should affect the sound in normal carpeted situations, unless maybe the speaker weight is on the lower end of the Gaia’s, the floor is particularly bouncy, the carpet very deep or the speakers are being run at very high levels. They would, however, seem to make it difficult to adjust speaker positioning on the fly.
 
I have had Gaia Is under my SVS SB17-Ultra subwoofers, which rest on concrete, carpet pad, and plush carpet, for several months. Yesterday, I installed IsoAcoustics’s carpet spikes for Gaia Is under my subwoofers. Wow! I was surprised— and delighted — by how much my bass really tightened up. At $75 per set, their cost/benefit ratio is outstanding.
 
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AVphile said:
I have had Gaia Is under my SVS SB17-Ultra subwoofers, which rest on concrete, carpet pad, and plush carpet, for several months. Yesterday, I installed IsoAcoustics’s carpet spikes for Gaia Is under my subwoofers. Wow! I was surprised— and delighted — by how much my bass really tightened up. At $75 per set, their cost/benefit ratio is outstanding.
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I am a big fan of GAIAs on hard floors. But when I tried them with carpet spikes on thick carpet and padding over concrete, I felt the sound degraded. Sound Labs floated on the carpet instead of being anchored.
 
AVphile said:
My subs weigh about 135 lbs. each. The footers are Gaia Is.
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I asked to see if your Gaia model’s spec is too close to the speaker’s weight. It’s not (<10%). I use Gaia 1’s with 120 lb speakers on medium berber carpet with wood, probably 2x10’s, underneath. In general, spikes are not a good idea because they transmit vibrations from what’s underneath, which undermines isolation. But if for whatever reason, perhaps the concrete, they work in your set up, great.
 
Another advocate for the Gaia feet........I saw they were coming out with a new model at the Audio Advice show. Anybody tried them yet?
 
nc42acc said:
Another advocate for the Gaia feet........I saw they were coming out with a new model at the Audio Advice show. Anybody tried them yet?
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nc42acc said:
Another advocate for the Gaia feet........I saw they were coming out with a new model at the Audio Advice show. Anybody tried them yet?
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While I have not, a close friend of mine replaced his Titans (the version for heavier speakers) with the new Titan-Neos. He said that -- perhaps -- there was some slight improvement in the tightness of the deep bass coming from his pair of SVS PB17-Ultra subwoofers. One thing of which I am certain -- I will not be replacing my three sets of Gaia Is for the newer Gaia I Neos for an additional $2,550!
 
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