IsoAcoustics GAIA footers: impressions


I have Spatial Audio M4TM speakers which were spiked to the thick carpet in my room.  I got the GAIA footers with the carpet spikes this week and got them installed today.  They are fiddly as hell to install, requiring a narrow needle-nose pliers to cinch down the nuts securely. 

I have been listing to my system for a few hours with them installed and from the get-go, the SQ improvement was readily apparent. There is an enhanced vividness to the music with more pronounced leading edges to musical notes and a more life-like decay to the notes that makes the sound more engaging.  I am very impressed with the SQ improvement which is far from subtle to my ears.  I previously auditioned the SVS footers and they clearly degraded the sound of my system. 

These footers have garnered lots of praise in the audio community and at $680 for them, it was an expensive tweek, but my ears are really happy with revisiting familiar recordings and loving the sound ever more than before.  I am aware in reading reviews that a fair number of folks trying them were not impressed, but Music Direct and others permit a 30-day money-back trial if they don't work in your system.  At any rate, it seems appropriate to share my impressions of them with you folks as they are quite amazing in my system.
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These are very real.  Under my ATC 40 active with carpet spikes and they rock.  The footers improve everything and the spikes improve the performance of the footers.  This is an immediate improvement, not a sit and listen for an hour and wonder if it is better or not.
The IsoAcoustic footers are amazing! Iv'e tried power conditioners,expensive cables ,and various anti-vibration items. The footers are the single biggest improvement to my system that I have expierienced.
There is a YOUTUBE Vid that shows the difference using 2 pairs of Focal Kanta 2's. One with Gai's and the other without. They use Steely Dan's "Aja" album. The difference is pretty drastic to my ears. Hope they will fit on some of my speakers. I don't think they will work on my Contour 30's
Holy cow, it is amazing that a Youtube video could reveal this enhancement with the GAIA footers.  My test with tube rolling and other enhancements (tweaks) is that if I don't recognize the improvement immediately, they are a bust.  I have tried goofy expensive fuses and nutty stuff like Shakti Blocks and SR dots on the wall, and it was a fools errand.

No question, from the first measure of the music with the GAIA footers under my Spatial Audio speakers there was a palpable increase in inner detail and coherence to the music and more realistic soundstage. Pity those that don't audition them.