IsoAcoustics GAIA I Speaker Isolators

Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile

Outstanding Product Award - Hifi Pig

Tighter Bass, More Clarity and a Wider Soundstage

The GAIA I Isolators are machined units that incorporate IsoAcoustics’ patented design to provide a high degree of speaker isolation, while resisting lateral movement and oscillations, to maintain alignment with the listening position. Internal reflections from the hard supporting surface are attenuated resulting in greater sound clarity and openness.

"Recommended Component" Honors

Stereophile honored the GAIA I by awarding it the magazine's coveted Recommend Component status for 2024.

According to Stereophile, "Gaia and Orea isolation feet are both intended to isolate the products they support from their environment, and both are offered in different sizes/compliances, to suit various component weights.

"After using a Gaia I set ($1199.98 for two sets of four) with his Monitor Audio loudspeakers, RD reported hearing 'an across-the-board improvement in the sound,' and he noticed a similar if less marked improvement after putting Oreas under his PS Audio monoblocks.

"Instruments and voices were more precisely defined on the soundstage, which itself was wider and higher," reports Stereophile magazine, October 2017. "A remarkable product."

"Tighter Bass and Lower Midrange"

"With every track, I consistently heard tighter bass and lower midrange, with greater focus and depth," writes Bob Barrett, HomeTheaterReview.com, March 14, 2018.

"They allow the speakers to sound more tactile, resolute, spacious and natural, adding tone and timbre and increasing timing performance," reports Dan Worth for HifiPig.com, which honored the GAIAI with an Outstanding Product Award.

The Soundstage Blossoms

When a speaker is placed on a hard surface, secondary internal reflections result. Any artifacts of this smear that is similar in the two channels is perceived to be in the center, causing the sound stage to collapse. The GAIA series of isolators eliminates this smear resulting in a larger three-dimensional sound stage. Using GAIA I Isolators, the soundstage blossoms to open up a three-dimensional image of natural, spatial sounds.

Optimal results are heard by installing these units with the logo facing the listening position, or rotated 180 degrees, to align the isolators with the speaker’s motive forces, lift and place the speakers into position as the GAIA I lower isolator will adhere to the supporting surface.

"All Around A Total Success," Notes Harry Weisfeld

IsoAcoustics was pleased to be invited to one of VPI Industries’ listening rooms to demo the GAIA I’s under a pair of KEF Blades. Harry Weisfeld, founder of VPI Industries and Dipinjeet Sehdev of KEF America immediately heard tighter bass, more clarity and a wider soundstage.

Harry Weisfeld later noted, "Installing the GAIA isolators on my KEF Blades gave the biggest improvement in sound I have ever heard on the system. Better than changing cables or electronics, the noise floor was lower, the focus was better, and the bass went deeper. All around a total success."

Product Features

Speaker isolation "feet"
Machined stainless steel construction
Provides a high degree of speaker isolation
Resists lateral movement and oscillations
Maintains alignment with the listening position
Width: 2.5"
Height: 1.6"
Weight capacity: 220 lbs.
Set of 4

Product Specs

Width: 2.5"
Height: 1.6"
Weight capacity: 220 lbs.

Product Warranty

2 Years

IsoAcoustics Warranty Information

Product Manual

	IsoAcoustics Speaker Isolation White Paper (PDF Format)

Recommended Component 2024 – Stereophile

"Gaia and Orea isolation feet are both intended to isolate the products they support from their environment, and both are offered in different sizes/compliances, to suit various component weights.

"After using a Gaia I set ($1199.98 for two sets of four) with his Monitor Audio loudspeakers, RD reported hearing 'an across-the-board improvement in the sound,' and he noticed a similar if less marked improvement after putting Oreas under his PS Audio monoblocks.

"JCA had a similarly positive experience with the Gaia-Titan Theis feet supporting Revel Salon2 loudspeakers, as did MF with the Gaia-Titan Cronos feet under his Wilson Alexxes: 'The improvement in low-level detail, resolution, image focus, clarity, bass attack and decay, and transparency were–I'll write it again– not at all subtle. They were huge!'

"AD put a set of four Gaia IIIs ($199.99) under the heavy wooden plinth of his Garrard 301 turntable and wrote, 'the difference I heard was beyond my expectations.' For the better, he meant."

- Stereophile, March 15, 2024

"Installing the GAIA isolators on my KEF Blades gave the biggest improvement in sound I have ever heard on the system. Better than changing cables or electronics, the noise floor was lower, the focus was better, and the bass went deeper. All around a total success."

- Harry Weisfeld, founder of VPI Industries

"Instruments and voices were more precisely defined on the soundstage, which itself was wider and higher. A remarkable product."

- Stereophile magazine, October 2017

"With every track, I consistently heard tighter bass and lower midrange, with greater focus and depth"

- Bob Barrett, HomeTheaterReview.com, March 14, 2018

"If I had to describe the IsoAcoustics GAIA III in one sentence it would be that they allow the speakers to sound more tactile, resolute, spacious and natural, adding tone and timbre and increasing timing performance."

- Dan Worth, HifiPig.com May 10, 2017

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