Inside the Iso Acoustics mechanism

@ghdprentice ,

You are welcome. But I would think that our situations are different. Loudspeakers can shake and move depending on the music playing, especially in the low frequency range. Components do not do that. And your granite is on a firm surface unlike mine which was on carpet. So you might be fine with your setup. Please consider that before you try to replace the granite.

BTW, you have a beautiful system. I am sure it sounds phenomenal.

@blueranger,

One of the mistakes I made while using the Gaias was to have the "granite" slab on carpet and the speakers+Gaias on these granites. Not good at all. You can see that on my system page where I have not the most recent pictures. I purchased the carpet spikes for the Gaias and the granites are not going back into that room. And the Gaias are not coming off those speakers.I love what the Gaias do in my system.

@ghdprentice ,

The granite interfered with getting maximum performance of the Gaias. When I moved from the spiked to the Gaias on granite, there was definitely an improvement - no doubt. But the "fullness" of the sound and the "more natural" sound of strings and bass opened up completely once I coupled the Gaias to the floor using the dedicated carpet spikes. Those plates are not cheap - but in my books, completely worth it.

@curiousjim ,

Thank You for confirming why the carpet spikes are working so much better for me. I have carpet over concrete. My sound room is in the basement.

And again, just like I had mentioned to @ghdprentice , your config is different than what I had. You have granite (solid) on harwdood (solid). Mine was granite (solid) on carpet (soft/cushy). If I had hardwood below the granite, I would not remove the granite. Actually you have better options than me, to place the loudspeakers with Isoacoustics - directly on hardwood floors OR granite over hardwood. Good for you.