Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking...


I owned a low cost headphone for many years, the Fostex TH7B, first version( a new one close version exist Fostex TH7BK), semi-open headphone...I was never completely satisfied by any headphones I ever owned: Hifiman 400, Stax basic lamda, Stax 5 gold,Akg 340,Akg 701, beyerdynamic 990, and T150... Because in each of them with all their qualities I never listen to at the same times, a confortable headphone with natural timbre and voicing, with a good imaging and a realistic soundstage(not too close to my ears)...


For the last days I tweaked this Fostex, to damp his internal resonance I used sorbothane, I put some shungite stones at the exterior part of the cups and I use some Herkimer diamond in the interior pads( 3 at 120 degree) … Now this low cost headphones crush all my others if I sum all his qualities... For example his mids and voicing cannot beat the AKG 340 but among all my other headphones it is the best that is near that mids and it is more confortable, and with longer cable than the 340...His imaging is better and more realistic than the 340 etc etc...It is the same if I compare with the others...


His most important qualities is natural timbre and clear imaging,very precise pinned point accuracy and natural, so clear it crush for that ALL the others to dust...In the French audio circle the reviews were more than very positive few years ago...Diapason d’or and choc Classica...I am not the only one impressed buy the ratio quality/price... But remember that thesae reviewers dont tweak their headphone...The difference between before and after the tweaks are staggering...


Yes Miracles happens in Audio: cost is under 100 American dollars... Few years ago they cost me 50 bucks new... I never dreamed that I will go back to headphones...


I will enjoy your miracles stories of any kind ….My best to all...
mahgister
These acoustics resonators dont reduce only the acoustic wave energy in the room, mostly they refine, retune it... They act like a pre-antenna for the antenna of the ears and body...


If I was able to explain that scientifically, and I am not, I would not even be proposed to receive the Nobel prize, because all that is too much advance science for our actual paradigms..Like anything linked to morphic resonance ...The body is by far the most efficient morphic resonator and translator...The body is the center of Life itself, and life is not locally reducible to a local origin and explanation, life is a cosmic global event, not even a planetary one only...For life to begins not only a qualitative information field is needed but also a synchronisation of all planetary clocks...All these clocks at all levels partake and constitute the dynamics aspect of the morphic field...That does not contradict relativity theory because these are qualitative clock in a qualitative time field...Not quantitative clock...Life secrete is own time and it not the time of the actual thermodynamic physics...In physics all direction are equal, for life they are not equal... This is the difference... 
The answer is surprisingly simple. I was alerted to this by John Atkinson, former editor of Stereophile Magazine, some years ago. I like what you’re saying but you have only won half a prize so far. Will I have to cut it in half? Is there such a thing as half a Nobel prize? If time did not exist man would have to invent it.