Yet another footer thread. Magico S7: IsoAcoustics GAIA Theis or SPods?

owen lawlor

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That's a third alternative to the rather unsatisfactory skinny nuts that IsoAcoustic supply. All provide a soft landing for the Gaias so they can be screwed against the resistance of spring wavy washers, neoprene washers or felt washers until the logo is facing forwards. And all these alternatives allow a reduced speaker height increase compared with the fiddly nuts.
Boy those are tough to find in skinnier sizes. What do you think of these? Would they raise the height too much? https://www.amazon.com/Isolate-Sorb...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=8RE9VGN2GNAEZ9R7H0WK
 

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Boy those are tough to find in skinnier sizes. What do you think of these? Would they raise the height too much? https://www.amazon.com/Isolate-Sorb...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=8RE9VGN2GNAEZ9R7H0WK
I hadn't noticed those Sorbothane washers. They are 70 Duro which is the hardest I believe so probably the 30 Duro vesrion may be most suitable as you could squash them down as you tighten the Gaias. However, there's no need for the vibration control that Sorbothane offers in this particular application, since the foot and the bottom of the speakers (or other fixing point for the Gaias) need to be rigidly connected - there's no benefit by trying to isolate the Gaia from whatever it's fixed to. All we're trying to do is "secure" the Gaia such that the logo faces forward. This can be done using the fiddly supplied nuts that take up several mm of the thread, or the spring washers or a rubber washer with no vibration absorption virtues!

Those Sorbothane washers may be useful elsewhere though.

These at £3.30 for 25 are ideal for M8 threads - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A4-MARINE-GRADE-STAINLESS-STEEL-WAVE-WAVY-SPRING-CRINKLE-WASHERS-METRIC-M1-6-M20/202958885538?_trkparms=ispr=1&hash=item2f414ad2a2:g:li4AAOSwzAxejNB2&amdata=enc:AQAFAAACcBaobrjLl8XobRIiIML1V4Imu%2Fn%2BzU5L90Z278x5ickkrmmq8hWevtuKE7%2F%2BLfVXtoQ20bOM%2BNIUe06hMelnoZAHnMyXJgkXGU7BtSI6PQThY4OPG8Vf6gqr4uNiJ1lgX4Hdcgr%2BduCZhQ1hUFnMaYAIt6ObyuR7apKFrapj4p8DqD5MmJomOgzfsQplDMujuaXole90ryVQBqNKIzAEmmfa6%2FcEZW1A9E51im3lLlUrDA0lANV8%2BTe%2FBtdWjYliOuHXRPkPmuj9mJeqZUKMxiWDGK5A7Hd8zL2B9YKN069lrvLUTDItYpmZj4QK64zy3ojdqwsdFMZNNkLQ6%2B%2B%2FW7lrQkAUNeSmIbJ%2FeZiLWBlmOd4e%2BXxCvHJWinFS3RzuliALqj%2BQ0nW%2Fq%2Bnmwttwc16udFEqZUaRTyt4hjMelX%2BnEylWmQYq9AGq5XTqXSP8vj6IqbV%2FXYe8j5x11AEoemrdbWV0uioT683jNl3yFQVdCGUiY2w9fE%2F671C9D%2FFinCmMRsmto3bGKvQhgwGBmWUiM7FO4gaj6thWnAYUTskH3ZEZ2DaP6K%2FSjlccIWdKCjszWl6mnbCorjeU9RE1UyeL3ZA1Eqd%2Frr7tGgFlOAJHMdMetRw0hUMQ0mvNlC%2BNCtc5Kgh6djMlrEiVYHn2fsmi%2FafcUK3UAj2fQAOwMvUNHI9YGWHyn%2BT53C%2BXea5lGZhvESjcKiUvAOGf8%2FgpoZE3Kubirjov3K1EHcHcujd4%2B2DlFR6P3H9aGAbnktSTL%2BWDlXD6qPq9ZdaTUg8VGAWQgtLxhLLE5fVuW6Ofg%2BPJAh%2BKoQ5r7A3cz2HX7kxA2A%3D%3D|cksum:202958885538b942440d7eb945a9aac4ef00825c5474|ampid:pL_CLK|clp:2334524

Or these at £2.70 for 20 with M8 centre hole - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLACK-FLAT-THICK-NEOPRENE-RUBBER-WASHERS-M3-M4-M5-M6-M8-M10-M12-M16-M20/363012105117?_trkparms=ispr=1&hash=item548535239d:g:RNMAAOSwaL5e2A-e&amdata=enc:AQAFAAACcBaobrjLl8XobRIiIML1V4Imu%2Fn%2BzU5L90Z278x5ickkBSh1VzQSTzkTiSV5EE%2FHQadJYzLm8HybjhE7vUZRudb8cxOmwhuWbwQria4GuFeD%2FlW2Uc0wXstY7snTDpKOXiqepTShaIvY3NxdXwPhh4mtYf5bqhtNf6Ke7nyheUFZHbyJoLkMHabDLx%2B5UjaSQIBp6IuwIp5hBXiIRW0WvbIdd8M56FIBK370AI9iKFJ5n1mMC2nzDzTjdAAFDDSyalmw9sTxuC7Ybez0UPxD9%2F2ptwG06OKVNQADMJRxNZoL3Uy8edmAjhfxelf5bBi7WNXlY6tERP%2BOEA9cKTw3QGHha2h4PTovhoVmNNmTIRtO8OjW0TzE%2FwVxzijzG3f2EXAyeMjlTDJls2jqzsbhZdtKg%2BqbBVq8IH%2FYYCcvXKGUdAQ7%2FrreSwfDmq9iumE5iQ1PcF9RbXEsvTaANzKunAyC9sNfJDaXUZZsCZ0APyu2h674XX6JF2MdJ%2BhDEUET%2BP3FQjZfJ4DmQNS%2BSPfrIfQGexjtj7NCTEPZGqQkExYk%2F1lNSHPydvgMj3h3TyiH8dmMGkNDFoE1M%2FhhojUDJ5UlfOrlP8KuN2FQGPhG7kE7R5WknCbXsmdNusQKkeeug%2BsUnrr4XK4hdnAI%2FyT1jPVgtrrh4m8h9F4mFjLHdv1yZ8VmeF0hiprkDqonoq60Yw4nw9XYIpq4V0jwVRuKcpXJS7eAWF0LIYc0vXshDlqcDh3Ck%2FWHx4PoyTcnG7fWpyTHykzXcvX6hJSwL4RYB2nNEvI95rgfD6FQzzsWN09AmKqleGYAG81gc5lwexPjnw%3D%3D|cksum:3630121051177abd1f699a55458e8ab1159cda0a9ece|ampid:pL_CLK|clp:2334524

I can't believe these Ebay addresses need to be so long! Peter
 

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An old thread but I wanted to recommend the M-pods as a most worthwhile upgrade tp the S7's. We can argue about price and whether they should be included as standard, but the fact remains that they lift the performance of the S7s so much that on a performance - increase - per - dollar basis, I think they are definitely worthwhile.
 
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