Isoacoustics' Gaia eliminated a 120Hz mode

I use a pair of Gaia II with Marten Duke 2. The Gaias are very effective as they improved everything across the frequency spectrum. The largest improvement was with the bass but the midrange and treble also gained some clarity and sophistication.

The bonus is they look rather good when installed on the speakers. The speakers now look more elegant with the Gaias than with standard spikes.

Another point is the Gaias have rated capacities to cater for different loadings. This just shows the importance of loading them correctly. They will fall out of the performance envelope if not properly loaded. I presume it is better to have a higher rated capacity Gaia support a lighter load rather than the other way round.

Give it few days to settle down. In my experience the bass and everything showed more presence and impact after few days of settling down. Basically a more fleshed out and open sound with improved clarity and macrodynamics.

I am not sure if this is worth mentioning. Personally I find the installation of Gaias to be rather finicky as a perfect accuracy in the leveling cannot be achieved. The individual Gaia units have to be rotated clockwise or anticlockwise with the logo facing the front or rear. If the floor is not a perfect level, you would need to adjust the 4 Gaias so as the speaker will be completely leveled with proper even loading to all the Gaia footers. This adjustment may cause the logo on few footers to face the rear instead of front.

In my limited experience, an improper setup of the Gaias will result in a poor sound from the system due to the uneven loading. I messed up the first time when I installed the Gaias on my speakers. After some adjustments to the leveling, the benefits are difficult to ignore.

I read somewhere that with a correctly set up Gaia (logo facing the front or rear), the speakers can sway slightly from side to side but stay firm on the other axis without any movement at all. As for leveling, agreed that it doesn’t make much sense since speakers are heavier at the front due to mounted drivers. The other points you brought up are valid.

Nevertheless, I presume that the Gaias need to be loaded evenly for them to work properly. The loads from the speaker need to distribute evenly to all 4 supporting Gaias. Otherwise it will just defeat the purpose. An exaggeration to illustrate my point, imagine one end of the speaker at the base is hanging loose in the air while the other 3 footers are taking most of the load. The sound will not be good. This is the reason I messed up during the first time I installed the Gaias.

It is easier to set up the Gaias if your floor is completely leveled. In my case, the floor is slightly uneven so I will need to adjust the leveling to ensure that all 4 footers are evenly loaded if not perfectly loaded. I understand that perfect accuracy is not possible due to the aforementioned reasons. Nonetheless we can still set up the Gaias to achieve the best possible result with some effort. My speakers are sloped at the top so I can’t control the level at the top of the speaker. The control was at the top of speaker stand in my case with the use of a spirit level.