For more than a decade IsoAcoustics has been designing and manufacturing revolutionary isolation tools to help home and professional audio enthusiasts get the very best from their listening musical equipment.
Among their most notable inventions are the GAIA series of HiFi isolators designed to replace the factory spikes featured on floor-standing speakers. Utilising patented technology, GAIA provides speakers with a high degree of isolation to remove underlying surfaces from the acoustic equation and dramatically improve clarity and openness in performance. Their unique design also resists lateral movement to ensure the speaker’s listening position remains horizontally static even during higher-volume playback.
Bringing in the Listeners
At the close of 2021 in a delectably furnished Toronto loft studio, IsoAcoustics staged an experiment to give randomly selected participants a first hand look [listen] at exactly what their GAIA isolators could do.
Participants were picked at random to participate in a recorded review for an audio product. The participants did not know anything about the product before they arrived.
Sean Morrison, IsoAcoustics Inc.
Presented with two sets of switchable and expertly positioned Focal N2 speakers – one featuring regular Focal spikes, the other with GAIAs – listeners were given the opportunity to audition some of their favourite songs to analyse the precise effect that GAIA offered to their best known musical material.
From the amplifier, the audio signal passed through a switch, which controlled which speaker set received the input. Using a remote, the signal was switched between the set on the left side on spikes and the set on the right side on the IsoAcoustics GAIA isolators
Finally, reactions from participants were captured for IsoAcoustics GAIA Challenge video excerpt below and the quotes speak for themselves:
“It sounds like they’re different speakers.”
“The mids became a lot more pronounced.”
“There’s definitely an improvement in clarity.”
“It fills up the whole room. I can hear everything.”
“Even a person that hasn’t been in this game for 20 years can hear the difference between the two.”
Hear What You've Been Missing
To arrange a demo of GAIA and other IsoAcoustics products here in the UK, contact our home audio sales department for your nearest authorised demo centre.