IsoAcoustics Unveils GAIA Neo Series with Tool-Free Adjustments and Enhanced Isolation

(May 6, 2025) IsoAcoustics has revealed a next-generation expansion of its acclaimed GAIA isolation feet lineup. The new GAIA Neo and GAIA-TITAN Neo models bring enhanced design, seamless height adjustment, and simplified installation to a product family already considered a gold standard in high-end speaker and component isolation. Scheduled to make their public debut at HIGH END Munich (May 15-18), the Neo lineup will be available globally in Q3 2025, with pricing to be announced.

The GAIA Neo series continues IsoAcoustics’ patented approach to acoustic isolation—eliminating parasitic vibrations that transfer between speaker and floor, which the company says can cloud performance. But this time, the company’s engineers have dialed up both the functionality and the finish. A lower rotating ring makes it easy to adjust height while preserving on-axis alignment, while the installation process is simplified by eliminating lock nuts. A compressible O-ring ensures firm but non-invasive coupling to the speaker or component above. Models come in two finishes—dark chrome and black—and include the three most common thread sizes.

Each GAIA Neo is purpose-built to optimize performance based on load weight, following a tiered system that matches speakers and components of different sizes:

GAIA Neo Series – Specs at a Glance

• GAIA III Neo
  • Weight Cap: 32 kg (70 lbs)
  • Size: 2.2 x 1.8 in (56 x 45 mm)
• GAIA II Neo
  • Weight Cap: 55 kg (120 lbs)
  • Size: 2.6 x 2 in (65 x 50 mm)
• GAIA I Neo
  • Weight Cap: 100 kg (220 lbs)
  • Size: 3 x 2 in (77 x 52 mm)

GAIA-TITAN Neo Series – Specs at a Glance

• Theis Neo
  • Weight Cap: 145 kg (320 lbs)
  • Size: 3.4 x 2.2 in (86 x 56 mm)
• Rhea Neo
  • Weight Cap: 190 kg (420 lbs)
  • Size: 3.7 x 2.4 in (94 x 60 mm)
• Cronos Neo
  • Weight Cap: 281 kg (620 lbs)
  • Size: 4.2 x 2.5 in (106 x 64 mm)

Alongside sonic improvements, the Neo line also introduces Floor-Sliders—simple inserts that allow users to reposition large, heavy speakers after the feet are installed. Just slide, then remove one side at a time.

The GAIA Neo’s debut is already making waves in the OEM sector, where IsoAcoustics partners with brands like Sonus faber, PSB, and Perlisten. According to the company, several new flagship loudspeakers built around GAIA Neo and GAIA-TITAN Neo isolators will be announced at the Munich show.

"GAIA Neo makes it easier than ever for audiophiles and hi-fi enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of their systems,” said Dave Morrison, Founder of IsoAcoustics. “GAIA is the standard in isolation performance for the audio market, and we’ve worked very hard to make this outstanding product line even better. Neo is the culmination of this exploration.”

For more information, or to find your model using IsoAcoustics’ updated online product selector, visit www.isoacoustics.com.

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[Asere]

Are there any real significant use for isolation feet or they are only pretty toys to look at?

 

[Todd Anderson]

Are there any real significant use for isolation feet or they are only pretty toys to look at?

I think you’ll find two groups on this: the snake oil group and folks who are open to the possibility.

I’ve heard past isoAcoustics products in action in an A-B (not fully blind) demo using two different speaker systems placed side by side in a stereo array. Wayne Meyers was with me. We were both astonished at the difference… it was a soundstage that went from scrambled (spaghetti, as Wayne described it) to definitively sharper and organized.

It’s been a while since that demo and I can’t remember all of the specifics, but I do know that what we heard was a change that was easily identifiable.

I’m not sure if there was some trickery going on… if it had to do with one pair of speakers (the GAIA speakers) potentially being slightly higher than the other… or possibly aimed slightly different.

I’m sure the variables are vast, but Wayne and I heard change.

I’ve had the GAIA’s in my own room - I think I can hear the same difference, but that’s a very unscientific, impressionary “think.”

Auditory memory is terrible - I concede that - and there are, again, so many variables that went uncontrolled when I played around with them.

I’ve talked to the creator, Dave Morrison, about this and what the naysayers submit, which is that you can’t measure any sort of difference. I’m sure I’m simplifying his answers when I say this, but he essentially says that you can’t measure soundstage cohesion.

I’d be curious to sit in a test room with you to see if you’d hear a difference!

 

[rattus]

I own a pair of IsoAcoustics stands for my studio monitors. I'm pretty sure the main improvement in sound comes from the height rather than the isolation, a view which is supported by Ethan Winer in his excellent article, including testing and measurements - https://ethanwiner.com/speaker_isolation.htm

 

[VinceHoffman]

The original Isoacoustics Gaia 2 footers offered a significant improvement in upper bass and lower midrange clarity for our specific set up @Asere. The bolt-on Gaia feet replaced the factory foot option beneath the heavy mass loaded Skylan stands of all five bed loudspeakers (65 pound active ATC studio monitors couple to 50+ pound mass loaded stands). In our specific set-up, the sonic improvement's were both quite stark and easily worth the cost. However I feel I should provide some context about our room and building construction which may explain why they worked so well for us and may provide less impressive results in other setups.

Our loft occupies the second and third floors of a brick century building. The foundations of this character-filled 120+ year old building are literally piles of rocks. The end result is that the pair of 22 by 70 foot suspended hardwood flooring spans which make up each 3000 sq ft floor are bouncy and sag 2" in the middle of the spans. Our 20x14 foot dedicated music and movie room straddles one of those bouncy unsupported spans with only the right hand wall of our music & cinema room being a rigid load bearing wall.

With that context, here is my best guess at why the Gaia decoupling footers worked so much better that the spike and cone cup footer I had exclusively used under several different heavy loudspeakers in this room in the two decades prior. I think that when I was rigidly coupling my heavy loudspeakers to that bouncy suspended hardwood floor, the floor would resonate in sympathy with the loudspeakers at low frequencies, droning tunelessly along and thus masking upper bass and lower midrange detail. The decoupling and damping provided by the Isoacoustics Gaia footers largely mitigates this.

If your listening room features a bouncy suspended floor too, I would confidently recommend you try a set of the appropriate weight-rated Gaia footers out. If your room sits on a solid concrete pad or other ultra rigid and massive floor construction, then these feet may offer less or no benefit vs a more typical spiked footer or spike and cone cup arrangement.