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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...
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mahgister OP
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I forget to mention that my "golden" shungite plate improves also the details and the higher frequencies, not only imaging, and natural timbre....It is only some hours that I listen to my music after that tweaks I created during the last night and I am flabbergasted...

There is indeed plenty of cymbals and percussion in this excellent cd of Freddie Hubbard " First light", the mastering of sound in this pieces are very good...And it is easy to remember that the last listening session before my tweaks was never so detailed indeed...
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I enjoy very much the discussion with ghosts, spectral entities, dead audiophiles, and silent friends here...No objections, no criticisms, no accusations, and nothing except polite and mute confirmation... Paradise indeed...My salutation and my best to all this crowd...
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I think the SANDWICHES of shungite ( which is made of 60% of fullerene molecules like graphene for the lowest grade shungite and almost 90 % for the "noble" grade shungite) and the shielding copper, act in someway improving the direction of flow of information in the electro-magnetic field, making it more sensible because of a better oriented flux of the complex information , because making more coherent the electrons flowing rivers.... I say all that because science recently discover the power of graphene in this way... Please I am only speculating about the effect that my "golden" plates are making then I apologize for the rant....
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I must correct my precedent post shungite is made of 60%/90% of carbon with traces of fullerene...The graphene is carbon made also...


This mix of copper on one of the external face and carbon based materials inside seems to be the secret of my "golden" shungite plates...


After many hours of listenings and some added plates small in my grid of stones and big on the router and Central electrical panel, the improvement is unmistakable...I also added some little shungite pyramids with copper on the 4 faces on power chord and on some of my Shumann generators...


By the way, professional sceptics prohibited for this post here, the shungite pyramids (4) are in my refrigerator for one year now, and the fruits and vegetables are on a longer duration and keep fresh longer, and the refrigerator works better....The mother of my wife bought the same brussell sprouts than my wife attached to their natural stalk, same day together and same place.... His stalk were wasted and yellow after few days, my wife stalk of brussels sprouts were edible for a month( I know that because I eat the few last after a month and they were delicious)... After that I offer her some shungite pyramids and she observe a great improvement in his own refrigerator... Shungite is not only good if use correctly in audio it seems...Ok sceptics are welcome now for the next posts … :)
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You, my friend, have some fascinating ideas. Again, thank you for sharing your ideas and experiences. A hot mate' toast to you!
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