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RE: Isoacoustics Gaia

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In Reply to: RE: Isoacoustics Gaia posted by mbrierley on October 02, 2024 at 05:55:50

I suspect Gaias will make a valuable improvement to your speakers' bass delivery. My own speakers have twin 12" drivers and the bass was clearer and more detailed after Gaia Is fitted.
Your new amps are impressive. Have you home demo'd them and other amps with your own speakers? I did this with 10 solid state amps 3 years ago and was surprised by the differences. Some didn't offer a good match for my speakers, but others did. The costliest were not the best sounding and neither was the best-measuring one. .

Edits: 10/05/24

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RE: Isoacoustics Gaia - mbrierley 10:44:34 10/06/24 (1)
"Have you home demo'd them and other amps with your own speakers?"

Ireland has a really small audiophile community and an even smaller number of good shops. I can count about 4 in the whole country and none loan equipment let alone have it in store to demo. Sad state of affairs.

When the crash hit in '08, the main hi end shop in the country went from carrying plenty of $40-$50k components to carrying nothing but 2nd hands when things recovered. Same store has a strangle hold on the market being that it is the main distributor in the country for most brands...
- RE: Isoacoustics Gaia - mbrierley 04:25:15 12/22/24 (0)
  So I bit the bullet and bought a set. Have to say, I am a little underwhelmed given they cost around the same as a step-up amp from say $500 to $1,400 that would provide a significantly greater reward for the money.
  
  Maybe I expected too much night and day. I have got a bigger horizontal sound stage, bass (in some recordings) has gone down a few octaves. Bizarrely, there are some minute details missing from "some" reference recordings that I really didn't expect. Mind, they have softened some "glare" on some recordings.
  
  What am I saying. Maybe careful what you wish for. The Gaia's delivered the basics of what I was looking to achieve while not delivering what I hoped for. For the cost involved, I had really expected them to deliver what I had hoped for.

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