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Under my tower speakers -- Isoacoustics Gaia, other options?

I have Ascend towers (45lbs each) on a concrete floor covered in thin wall to wall with an area rug on top of that. I am looking into different footers for my speakers and am curious what people with towers on concrete have tried and liked.

To my mind, something as expensive as Townshend platforms do not seem worth it, as they'd cost about a third of the price of the speakers themselves.

If you've tried Gaia III isolators or other kinds of feet for your speakers, especially on concrete floors, I'm curious to hear your observations. Thanks.

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tomaswv
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My system is on a concrete slab floor with a fairly thick carpet/pad. My components are in a massive salamander cabinet with source components on IsoAcoustic pucks and my preamp and monoblocks on maple plinths. My speakers, Dali Mentor 6s, were on spikes. Still, when I put them on GAIA IIIs I heard a significant improvement in resolution and sound staging. It may have been that the Dali spikes weren’t really long enough to penetrate the pad and carpet, but the improvemt with GAIAs is real.

In our former house, the system was on wooden floors—the speakers were on spikes there, but the speakers sound better with the GAIAs on carpet, if my memory serves me. 

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