Townshend Springs under Speakers

It is helpful that you have taken the time to post your system.  So folks here can give the best answers to your question, it would also be helpful to know about the floor the speakers are supported on - specifically suspended floor over wooden joists, concrete slab on grade, or something else, and also whether there is carpet or not.

Good choices, I have them all, can't go wrong. Podiums typically have the biggest impact of all. Even people who already had pretty good stuff like Gaia still had big improvement going to Podiums. So I would think this will be about like that.   

Pods under components are very similar to Podiums under speakers, and they cost a lot less. It is kind of hard to rate these things but for the cost of one set of Podiums you get enough Pods to do about 5 or 6 components, which all together adds up to about the same total improvement, if you follow me.   

F1 are pretty impressive too though. Ozzy likes his better than any and he has tried a lot more high end cables than me.   

With all of these, the way they improve instrument separation is they eliminate a lot of resonant behavior that colors tone and alters each instruments individual acoustic signature or timbre. This makes each instrument sound so much more real and natural, this lets you hear each one a lot more clearly, and so they naturally appear more distinct or separate from each other on the stage.    

This is how I hear it at any rate. Because pretty much everything has these tone-shifting resonances it is easy to say they will all be better. But without hearing what you have, which one to prioritize, is pure guesswork. My hunch would be Podiums, Pods, F1. But it is likely a case of six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Ah, good point @mitch2 !

I live in an older, urban apartment building from the 1930s.  Top floor of a 3-story building with wood floors that are a bit creaky and not well insulated.  I can hear my downstairs neighbor sneeze.  

In that case Podiums first, for sure.

Thanks, MC! I’ll probably start then with the pods under the components. I’ve only had intermittent luck with my DIY rollerblocks, and I’m thinking that success with these devices is hostage to the weight/pull exerted by heavy power cords. Trying to neutralize cable pull with Furutech Booster clamps seemed to defeat the value of the rollerblocks and I began to suspect that it was best to use a very light touch with the Furutech clamps when paired with ball-bearing isolation. I take it that this might be less of an issue when using 4 Townshend Pods (as opposed to 3 rolllerblocks) but was also wondering if the "clamp" strategy of the Furutech Boosters was itself a dubious solution to cable vibration that needed to be addressed as well.

Just read your update:  podiums!