I've been reading and wondering about these for a year or so. These are isolation feet for speakers tuned for different weights of speakers.
Gaia three are the babies luckily for me as my cabinets weigh 17kg EA I didn't need to buy the much more expensive, larger Gaia's.
Interestingly for a non electronic piece of hifi hardware they received pretty much universal praise with similar sentiments being reported by different people in different places e.g. magazines to Amazon buyers.
I folded of course and bought a set, I got them for a bit less than RRP by messaging an ebay seller who always sells them.
So I attached them to my Dali iKON 6 Mkiis and had a listen...
RIGHT away bass is more impactful and cleaner. Things start and stop and have timbre to them. I'd guess it was 30-40% better than what I had and my GF noticed it right away (she has good ears growing up in the countryside she's not deaf like me!).
Then second thing I noticed, stereo image is much more focused and in the centre, it's like the room has been acoustically treated a notch.
This makes the speakers disappear more or in some songs completely, very nice as before I was always aware of my speakers.
Next thing to notice, spatial resolution and transient response. Especially in regard to higher pitch percussion any trailing edge smear is reduced, things start and stop are crisp and 3D soundstage extends to make things very nicely holographic. Depending on production value you can hear different instruments in fixed places in the air.
Everything is clearer, call it removing a haze if you like but things are closer to 'correct' now.
Something else to notice is during films the front soundstage is together more and cohesive. I have my centre channel raised on monitor foam wedges so is relatively isolated (highly recommend doing this too), now there is much less distinction in certain times between the front left and right speakers with the centre. Like additional timbre matching has occured.
So I'm waxing lyrical right? Guy spends stupid money on speakers feet and placebo effect wins the day? I don't think so. I was not sat there straining to hear these differences, they are there immediately and with no doubt.
All speakers idealise cabinet inertness, look at the Q acoustics concept 500 speakers (will buy these one day!) and the lengths designers went to to dampen the cabinet.
This can be considered hifi dogma and the Isoacoustics feet are allowing you to improve on this after the fact.
I would not be without these now and they do actually justify their price. Why?
Because in effect you have upgraded your speaker to a whole tier above at less money or when you don't want to/can't replace your speakers.
Think of it that way and you're doing good man maths now.
They look good but sound better. Highly recommended. My system is now a pleasure to listen to.
For those that want to know here's the chain.
Tidal Cd-quality--Sonos connect digital out--Arcam IrDAC analogue out--Yamaha A-S1100 integrated--Dali iKON 6 Mkiis + BK XXLS400 (X2) configured in stereo via high level with low pass @~50hz
Gaia three are the babies luckily for me as my cabinets weigh 17kg EA I didn't need to buy the much more expensive, larger Gaia's.
Interestingly for a non electronic piece of hifi hardware they received pretty much universal praise with similar sentiments being reported by different people in different places e.g. magazines to Amazon buyers.
I folded of course and bought a set, I got them for a bit less than RRP by messaging an ebay seller who always sells them.
So I attached them to my Dali iKON 6 Mkiis and had a listen...
RIGHT away bass is more impactful and cleaner. Things start and stop and have timbre to them. I'd guess it was 30-40% better than what I had and my GF noticed it right away (she has good ears growing up in the countryside she's not deaf like me!).
Then second thing I noticed, stereo image is much more focused and in the centre, it's like the room has been acoustically treated a notch.
This makes the speakers disappear more or in some songs completely, very nice as before I was always aware of my speakers.
Next thing to notice, spatial resolution and transient response. Especially in regard to higher pitch percussion any trailing edge smear is reduced, things start and stop are crisp and 3D soundstage extends to make things very nicely holographic. Depending on production value you can hear different instruments in fixed places in the air.
Everything is clearer, call it removing a haze if you like but things are closer to 'correct' now.
Something else to notice is during films the front soundstage is together more and cohesive. I have my centre channel raised on monitor foam wedges so is relatively isolated (highly recommend doing this too), now there is much less distinction in certain times between the front left and right speakers with the centre. Like additional timbre matching has occured.
So I'm waxing lyrical right? Guy spends stupid money on speakers feet and placebo effect wins the day? I don't think so. I was not sat there straining to hear these differences, they are there immediately and with no doubt.
All speakers idealise cabinet inertness, look at the Q acoustics concept 500 speakers (will buy these one day!) and the lengths designers went to to dampen the cabinet.
This can be considered hifi dogma and the Isoacoustics feet are allowing you to improve on this after the fact.
I would not be without these now and they do actually justify their price. Why?
Because in effect you have upgraded your speaker to a whole tier above at less money or when you don't want to/can't replace your speakers.
Think of it that way and you're doing good man maths now.
They look good but sound better. Highly recommended. My system is now a pleasure to listen to.
For those that want to know here's the chain.
Tidal Cd-quality--Sonos connect digital out--Arcam IrDAC analogue out--Yamaha A-S1100 integrated--Dali iKON 6 Mkiis + BK XXLS400 (X2) configured in stereo via high level with low pass @~50hz
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