The Gaia Neo series brings better isolation, easier adjustment, and two new finishes.
It's Footer Season, and IsoAcoustics is a House Favorite
Most of us at Upscale own a selection of IsoAcoustics products. On a recent training session with John Bevier, USA sales manager for IsoAcoustics, many of us were holding up, or pointing to the products we have in our home systems, whether Orea component isolators, ZaZen shelves, or Gaia footers.
The latter is a huge favorite among us and, well, so many of you. Essentially designed to be a "clever spike", it handles the complex mix of dissipation and isolation that speakers need. When Gaia is deployed, imaging snaps into focus, bass gets deeper and tighter, and detail and soundstage are enhanced. It's not a small improvement, and this is why both IsoAcoustics, but especially the Gaia, remain one of our top sellers.
That's why we're so excited to hear about the upcoming Neo, an upgrade to Gaia. Note, it's not here yet, so we're offering a 10% discount on our inventory of the current models.
The New Neo
One of Gaia's biggest benefits is when you have an uneven floor. One of our team has small, textured ceramic tiles in the listening room, and between the ups and downs of the tile surface, and the frequent grout lines, no other interface could possibly offer a level and solid contact.
However, our biggest... actually our only, complaint with the current Gaia is that with the two-nut design, levelling the speaker is not an easy job, certainly not if it's just one person with larger speakers. The Neo now allows up to 8.5 mm of adjustment by simply rotating the lower ring. This mid-body adjustment means another improvement: The top of the isolator is always flush with your speaker's base.
Why Buy the Current Gaia?
All of the above sounds great, so why spend on the current non-Neo model? First, the 10% Gaia discount coupled with the inevitable higher price of the Gaia Neo, means you get most of the IsoAcoustic benefit at a pretty unbeatable savings. Second, though there are improvements to the isolation compounds in Neo, the regular Gaia still represent such an upgrade that they remain part of the IsoAcoustics line-up as a lower model range. Note, as with most IsoAcoustics products, you pick your model based on the weight of the product, so don't be afraid to consult with us before buying.
Before we go, we'll leave you with customer John S., who put the IsoAcoustics Gaia feet under his Fyne Audio Vintage Classic Gold VIII SP. He likened the effect to upgrading a car suspension, and just like a good suspension reduces road imperfections, the Gaia greatly helped reduce his room imperfections. (A boomy bass note, for example, no longer goes back up the feet into the speaker, causing extra resonance.)Â
"Because the bass got evened out, I found the midrange led into the lower octave so smoothly. I'm getting such a layered soundstage and feel I'm getting the full capability of these incredible speakers."