Gaia do magic to my speaker

I'm not surprised. The Starsound platforms did the same for my speakers. Speaker supports really matter...a lot! 

jones4music it is responses like yours that give the Audiogon forum a bad name. shkong78 thanks for sharing your impression of the Gaia.

Thanks a lot Iwin for your encouragement.

This one is special.

It seems that I had changed speakers.

The new price of my speakers was 55,000$.


600$ bottom shoes changed the sound of my speakers so much that I got shocked.

Iwin,
+1. His "joke" didn't even make sense. If you're going to be nasty, at least be funny. 

Explain the flooring under the speakers; suspending hardwood, carpet over wood, carpet over concrete, etc., etc. Without these details the discussion is pointless.

I think he is saying that $600 in footers made a huge difference. 

If the elevation of the speaker changed due to the footers, imo that is THE biggest reason why the sound seems better. Even seemingly small changes in elevation of the speaker can seem impressive. 

http://http//media.slrclub.com/1809/10/s07CCj42dv666msrqgf.jpg

My system is in the suspending hardwood.

The above photo was taken before setting up Gaia.

The elevation of the speaker did not change much, less than 1 inch after changing the shoe.

Before using Gaia I had used the other isolating cones whose name I do not remember.

Something to remember when trying these isolation devices, footers, spikes etc:   Changing the height of the speaker in of itself, even by a tiny amount, can change the sound for the listener, as it changes the angle of the tweeter/drivers etc relative to your ears.    So it's possible the change in sound you are hearing is to some degree the altering the height of the speaker.    And the degree to which this will change the apparent sound of a speaker is going to vary between speakers, depending the general design, crossover design, etc.    Some speakers will be more immune to changes in height than others.

I've played with altering the height of my speakers and it usually alters the sound, whether it's actual spikes, footers or books/magazines/block of wood.

FWIW: I briefly tried some isoacoustics pucks (same principle as the Gaia) under my speakers and found the sound actually a bit "off" lusher, but darkened the tone, less alive sounding, and I preferred my speakers without them.    Which isn't of course to say other people won't have different experience with them.

I had tried other isolation before but did not get that drastic change.

Some outlets offer 30 day’s return so you may try one in your system to find out.

I ordered mine from  musicdirect.com 

It could depend on your system.

My guess is that if you system is on the bright side, it will not help.

I have a set of the Gaia 1 on order. I had been looking at speaker isolation devices for awhile and after Paul McGowan of PS Audio posted a video from this years RMAF in the Isotek room that was enough to convince to give them a shot.