First impressions of the Isoacoustic Gaia 1’s

@curtousjim: No, the Townshend Podium does not screw into the holes of ANY loudspeaker or it's bottom plate. The Podium is just a metal plate with Pods bolted onto it. If you want to keep the Reference 5's bottom plate (I would), just install a set of Pods in place of stock spikes. You COULD remove the stock plate and set the now-baseless speaker on the Podium, but why?

The "magic" of the Townshend Seismic products is in the Pod itself, not in the Podium or Platform plate they are bolted onto. The Podium and Platform models are offered for loudspeakers which don't have a bottom plate or base; yours already do. As I said above, I bolted Pods onto the bases Sound Anchors makes for my loudspeaker, in place of the stock spikes.

if you think the ISO acoustic Gaia sound good then you should try the Townshend podiums, they're much better at speaker isolation but they cost three times as much as the iso acoustic but well worth it.

bdb24, only the podium is for speakers, the platforms are for electronics like CD player or DAC

bdp24, I talked with John at Townsend and he said that the pods are only for electronics not to be put under speakers because your speaker will topple and be unstable, and he said that you're the only one that has done that.

curiousjim,

you can leave the plate on or off it's up to you but just make sure that you get the proper cells put on, you've got to take the weight of your speaker plus the weight of the podium to have the proper cells, if you get in touch with John at Townshend he'll help you