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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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mapman
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They are not expensive if still around and worth finding.

I also have multiple Sennheiser phones that I use a Chord Mojo portable DAC/amp with. The little jeweled AT phones are very close...no special amp/dac needed. Then I also have grado sr80e phones that I believe GK also owns and tweaks to sound their best. Not bad alone but they do benefit used with the Chord Mojo.
gera
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mahgister,

Breaker advice taken :) What size/thickness tile would you recommend to try?
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mahgister OP
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This one is big not costly...

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Healing-Shungite-Unpolished-Tile-150x100x10-mm-RUSSIA-345-gr-0-76-lb/323580470269?hash=item4b56e623fd:g:cnkAAOSwDaBb5~fb



The exact size and weigh does not are big factors... In fact I already have 4 tiles there, the only factor important is buy genuine shungite the less costly possible, then the biggest for the least price...Shungite club is a good provider of the genuine product...Dont buy from USA or others country... Only Russia owns shungite minerals... 


The rule to apply for shungite use: this minerals can degrade sound if you place it on top of gear or too close of a dac or an amplifier... The best place are near electro-magnetic power source like the wall wart, the electrical panel, the power strip. the conditioner, the power supply, the computer and his router, the router is great place for shungite...There it will improve sound...
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mahgister OP
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Here 2 photos of my S.G. modified and cabled to the grid of stones:

These 2 are USB powered + 2 shungite pyramids lifted on top of them without touching the embedded antennas of the S.G. the stones are Black Tourmaline+ Herkimer Diamond and Kambaba Jasper +Herkimer

https://imgur.com/gg3Fn5w


These 2 are with power supplies and you can see one of my Helmholtz resonator in the background, there is a shungite tile under these 2 S.G. but invisible on this photo, the stones are Black Tourmaline, Madagascar Agate, and Green Nephrite and many Herkimer on top of stones :


https://imgur.com/yZ4KMgH










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mapman
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No idea how this works but very cool. A picture is worth a thousand words.

I think you’ve scared off GK who seems to be mostly just bluster, comedy and insults when it comes to actually offering any evidence that he he is not just lazily about all talk and callously selling other peoples junk for a premium to make a few bucks.
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