IsoAcoustics Gaia w/MAGICO


Hi,

I plan to order Gaia I for MAGICO S1 Mk2.

MAGICO has closed back design with no bass port. There is no chance to listen this kind of tweak before ordering. I am afraid footers could worsen SQ because of loudspeaker’s design. MAGICOs reside on hardwood/concrete flooring  

Can someone share (real life) experience on this one?
Thx.

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I do not have Magicos but MBL towers on concrete floor, and can confirm about the Tonwnshend podiums being superior to the Isoacoustics.  They also look way cooler.

I ended up returning them, they did tighten up the bass, but the treble was harsher and more fatiguing... Didn’t work for me, difficult to set up too, the design is funky and it can be tricky to get them tight, level, and facing the direction they tell you is best in the set up guide... too pricey also, its just sorbothane with some made in china milled parts... I went back to the regular floor spikes, but I found some carbon fiber floor spike protectors on Amazon, Viborg audio I think was the brand, only cost like $30, I cut little heavy duty rubber pieces under those I had in the garage and it sounded better than the Isoacoustics in my setup

 

 

 

there's something that's much better than the Gaia, it's a lot more expensive though it's called the Townshend podiums, everyone that's tried both has said that the podiums are in a different League better than the Gaia but they're also three times more money.

and I put them under my speakers which are the monitor audio platinum 200 Gen 2 and it was like changing all the electronics the room problems didn't even matter anymore if you have any.

the cabinet will still vibrate from the base as well as from the earth vibration the problem with the guy they only isolate down to 20 HZ the Earth vibrations are less than 5 Hertz so you're still going to get the speaker's vibrating from the earth vibration and you'll get smearing in the highs from that, the Townshend podiums isolate down to three Hertz so they isolate all the Earth vibrations from getting to your speakers.