Saving the best for last. What I did too.
Love to hear from current owners or past users of Isoacoustics Gaia footers.
Do you still like them? Have you replaced them with something you felt sounded better in your system? I am considering purchasing a set of the IIIs, but am not sure I want to spend $400 on these footers.
Showing 3 responses by millercarbon
Understand the cost factor. Couple things about the Nobsound spring approach. The full 7 springs are never needed. Your speaker would have to be over 200lbs to need all 7. With the center spring removed you drill and tap the center 1/4-20 threads fits most studs on most speakers. Or whatever you have. Now you have a fully adjustable Nobsound spring footer. They are so inexpensive it would still be the way to go even if you had to buy the drill, bit, and tap. Heck you could buy a whole set of drill bits, and a full tap and die set, and the drill AND the Nobsound and STILL be WAY AHEAD of Gaia. Then if you don't like the look, so what? Find something you can live with, cover em up. Or cut your own footers from wood, acrylic, Corian, whatever you do like. 1/4" drill bit, springs are a perfect fit. Speaking of which, those springs you removed? Drill some 1/4" holes in a piece of wood, MDF, or whatever and you can easily make more footers. I was able to make extra sets for my subs this way. Cannot do this with anything else and another reason Nobsound is a stone bargain. |
Pretty sure if you read through my Townshend Podium review https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/townshend-audio-podiums-the-full-review somewhere in there you will find at least one person who had Gaia and went to Podiums and it was a huge improvement. Of course they also cost a lot more. But you get what you pay for. Whereas with Gaia what you get are barely any better than Nobsound springs. Which 2 sets will cost you about $70. So for just one tenth the cost of Gaia you get 90% of Gaia. If not better than Gaia. Nobsound will be a huge improvement, way better than anything you would ever expect for so little money. But while Townshend Podiums are a LOT more expensive, they are also so much better they are worth it. Read the review. Read the others who went that way. Read what the Nobsound people have to say. Gaia is in a no-mans land where you can pay a lot more but have very little to show for it. |