IsoAcoustics

Say „IsoAcoustics" and you think of feet and stands that do more than any cable or preamp — because they tackle a problem most people never think about: vibration transferring from a speaker into whatever surface it's sitting on. The company was founded in January 2012 in Ontario, Canada, by Dave Morrison and co-designer/inventor Robert G. Dickie. Morrison spent nearly 20 years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), where he was part of the team designing one of the largest media centers in the world in Toronto — a facility spanning over 1.72 million square feet, housing radio, television, and recording studios. It was there, wrestling with a building whose architecture wasn't exactly built with acoustics in mind, that Morrison started experimenting with isolating studio monitors — and discovered that proper placement alone could change the sound more than buying a whole new speaker. At the heart of the patented technology (US Patent 7,640,868) is a „floating" design: rubber bushings in the top and bottom plates of the stand let the connecting rods move freely front to back while limiting side-to-side motion. That arrangement effectively decouples the speaker from the floor or desk, eliminating the energy transfer that muddies the low end and blurs stereo imaging. The same mechanism, scaled and reworked in different materials, now shows up in the stainless-steel GAIA feet (for floorstanding speakers), the OREA pucks, and isolation platforms for turntables and tube amplifiers. At Wired Tunes we carry the full IsoAcoustics range — from ISO-Stands for studio monitors, to GAIA and Aperta feet for home audio gear, to isolation platforms for subwoofers and turntables. It's one of those rare purchases in audio that doesn't cost a fortune yet often delivers a more audible improvement than swapping the speaker itself.