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...
128x128mahgister
Thank you for the spirit of sharing.
By the way the electrical motor must be always plugged by usb and there is no battery and this is not a rechargeable ionizer...

The chinese marketing is false...

But i dont give a dam about it, i dont use it in a car and for the listening of music it is better without battery....

Just to give the truth about it.... The product seems very good quality....Anf i cannot live without...


Remember that my acoustical controls are good already and i can listen the difference between 2 changing  locations of the ionizer in my room  immediately....

If you use it for you first acoustical control perhaps the effect will be less spectacular than in my case.... Anyway you will hear some i dont doubt that.... 😊

My best to you ....

A simple thougth about acoustic and a simple experiment:


Simple thought:

A sound wave  with a speed of 343 meters per second cross my room of 3.9 meter, 88 times each second....Many times then each fraction of second ...


Imagine your room like a very tense string on a violin, the slightest change make it vibrate differently.... Your room acoustic space is like a tense string indeed.....The physician Helmholtz is the real father of room acoustic....



Simple experiment:


I change the diameter of the straw on my Helmholtz bigger tube(8 feet high) in my 9 foot high room...From a big straw for sloosh beverage 1/4 inches lenght to a regular straw one of lenght 1/4 inches lenght also....


Stupendous impact in bass and mid bass....The full tuba note around 35 hertz coming alive completely from my 7 inches bass driver....A miracle, listening the Empire Brass Gabrielli cd....All frequencies over bass better...


I communicate that to reveal the powerful impact of an apparent insignificant change that transform ALL the acoustical frequencies presentation...

Think about that 1/4 inches of a straw transforming all the acoustic of a room... Think about it! 😁😊😎😋

I already has known that myself by listening experiments but most people are so ignorant of that, they are ready to pay 100,000 bucks for a new amplifier that will have an another completely but similar powerful impact....

Mine has cost NOTHING.....PEANUTS....😊







Dont upgrade anything, embed everything....




If you turn on and plug the ionizer or MOSKITOFREE into a
charger in your cigarette lighter, the music in your
car can be transformed.  As if you upgraded the radio head,
speakers, and amplifier!  For peanuts.
Thanks for the tip in the name of all of us...

Acoustic is not what people think it is....

My best to you....
Very important UPDATE about my 3 Helmholtz tubes and about my Helmholtz-Fibonacci room tuner....


I tried straws with 3 dimensions, the better one for the Big Helmholtz PVC plumber tube (8 feet) were regular  straw for the bigger tube and  2 regular straws reduced to half of their normal diameter  on the other 2 smaller tubes.... The opening is closed with plastic cellophane stressed around the mouth of the tube with elastics... These tubes are plumber tubes with few inches diameter....


Results more clarity and astounding difference between the experiments with different diameters of the 1 /2 inches lenght straws...

For the Helmholtz-Fibonacci room tuner i wrapped the mouth of this thin plumber copper pipe with cellophane and elastic and the best results were with a thin hole pierced to the plastic sheet with a toothpick.... Fine tuning of high end audio indeed.... 😁


All this look insignificant and without great consequences at first sight and for the normal reader....Nothing is further from the truth, the impact is amazing and very powerful...

WHY ?

Because if you read the physics about the Helmholtz bottles you will learn how precise is the relation between the volume of the bottle and the lenght of the neck and his diameter linked to the frequency spectrum.... It is critical... When we are near the optimal numbers the impact is huge.... Like changing the amplifier...

My Helmholtz-Fibonacci room tuner is made with 3 sets of 3 pipes which lenght are near the golden ration, then they work all along a set of frequencies in synergetical effect...None of these 9 tubes has the same volume and lenght....

I am flabbergasted by the incommensurate effect  that reducing the diameter of a straw or pinning a hole with a toothpick in a plastic sheet can engender and produce a new level of S.Q.

Audio is fun, cost peanuts, and is akin to paradise...

Dont upgrade anything, listen, think, and embed everything....