Isoacoustics Gaia Speaker Footers

Another update as I close in on 100 hours running my amps with the GAIA IIs.

Warmth, naturalness/organic-ness and realism have significantly returned. For my goals, I now have 'that rightness' (in of itself) as well as a 'rightness' of balance with the cerebral aspects.

How much of this is attributable to my amps coming back on song versus solely the GAIAs, I cannot say.

Based on the differences from 9 days ago (prior to the GAIAs going in) the contribution from the GAIA footers under the amps is significant for my system and for my goals and was worth the investment.

I'll add that my trial with the GAIAs under my speakers (a while ago) was much easier to hear immediately.

Well I did fit the Gaia under my TT this afternoon and solid coupled using the m6 threads.

Right now I am not liking it too much, appear to have lost bass weight and authority and even gained what I would term some lower mid, upper bass "boom".

Now unfortunately the speakers are also relatively new so the change might be them as they change during break in period.

If no significant change in next few days I will first place speakers back on the carpet and not the platforms/spikes and Herbies they are now on.

Then pull the Gaia out from under the TT again and evaluate.

Ah well not every step can be a positive one. How we suffer for our art.....

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One aspect I did notice though was that noise somehow was reduced. By that I mean the background hiss with nothing playing was nearly totally absent, quite a reduction in all honesty.

No idea why that should be.

I posted elsewhere on the forum today that I am totally impressed with the SQ improvement with the GAIA III's under my Spatial Audio speakers for the reasons described above.  It is a pricey tweek ($684 with the carpet spikes), but it is a really significant improvement in the SQ of my system.  No question about it.  

Hey whitestix, which spatial model do you have?