I am happy your hard work and dedication are paying off with greater musical enjoyment, my friend. Even though I think that it is less hard work for you and more enjoyable work!
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...
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...
- ...
- 1210 posts total
Thanks thecarpathian for the nodding head on the road... We are 2 travelers in musical spaces...My mate is cold and delicious and wait for you... My best... |
I want to add this... We never know all what we miss in a piece of music when our audio system is not in a controlled and treated embeddings, mechanically, acoustically and electrically; even with very good electronic components... My estimate , metaphorically speaking in using numbers, is half of the music sounds is veiled or not there at all and if there is only with 2-d imaging, and instruments not at the right place, on the right intensity level ... :) |
For the anecdote, I had participate to another thread that was erased without explanations by some moderator... I regret it because, never mind the delicate subjects raised, the meeting places was interesting with all sort of characters...But I understand that speaking about non-audio matters is not always a good idea, but intensity of exhanges can create friendship also and not only aversion,or agressive language... Anyway I am not in the boots of the moderator, even if I miss discussions... Here no problem of moderation, ghosts dont argue...And perhaps a relaxing island is at the end better....:) "Peace is like luck, we want it only when we miss it" Groucho Marx |
Update: I came back with the S.G. optimal modifications : my 8 S.G. ( 7 cheap one) are now all modified with a thin "golden" plate+ tourmaline or Herkimer diamond or the 2 ... Clarity all across the board, imaging out of speakers 3-d, natural timbre, dynamics without compression... But the last and most difficult thing to get right was the atmosphere and space impressions of the recording room or theater or live event...If you prefer only studio sound and dont like the sound of live events or vast theater in your cd files, it is a sign that your audio system is not at his optimal, and the level of noise is too high... The best room treatment, and the best vibrations controls are not enough to get there... It takes methods to decrease the electrical noise floor, and other way than just acoustic materials to modify the acoustic of your room... The S.G. modified are great for that and different resonators ... It takes some experiments to try and discover the good formula...I wait now for the final 2 big shungite tiles to makes the 2 last "golden" plates for the main router and the main breaker panels... I dont know if a better product than mine exist? Probably, but I dont even dare to dream to buy one...Music is music now... Most of the times really most of us really dont know what they misses in the sound quality, whatever electronic components we use...The embeddings of these components is the real definition of HiFi, absolutely not the stamp of commercial makers, so good they are... This is the truth I bring to light by myself...Some pointed to me the general direction, but I never tought that this will be a so great journey... :) |
- 1210 posts total