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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I will illustrate the necessity in working with stones to experiment for the identification of the right spot location for the stones...

I received 500 beads of Chrysocolla (Brother stone of malachite) and I put them around 2 of my Shuman Generators... That makes the sound better on some count not of some other count...Then after 24 hours of listening I put them in my basement attached to the central electrical panel... Bingo! That works on all count especially clarity in all frequencies...

I receive a 1 pound 1/2 of quartz laced with nephrite stone, very beautiful indeed, and I put them on the central electrical panel, but on some count that compress the sound which surprized me greatly... I then put this stone near 2 Schuman Generator and cabled it, connected to my stones grid with thin cable...Guess what? an audible improvement in the air between instrument, and more presence of each sound...

It is by these experiments that I create my audio heaven...These are only the last 2 experiments in audio miracles for a few bucks... 22 bucks posting included for the big quartz+nephrite, 10 bucks for the Chrysocolla beads...The improvement justify the cost...


Note: There are no miraculous cured all only stone...Chrysocolla is very potent in audio but no more than shungite, tourmaline, quartz etc... The key is location and linking all them in a grid and powering them with batteries and Schuman Resonators engine for a synergetic filtering of noise action and optimal results...


My system is now near the end of possible audible improvement,( I think so but my wife inexplicably negate this fact :) ) then the next experiments will probably be less and less spectacular, but the system is so sensible now to change, that hearing the positive change is always possible tough and fun...

Even my taste in music are progressing because ALL files or cd sound better, even the bad one sound better than they usually do...In a good audio system my experience is ALL, absolutely ALL, files sound better than in a less perfect audio system... Those who speaks about some audio system that translate badly bad registered files speaks about an  "analytical and too much resolving audio system". For me a TOTL audio system is totally musical and not a microscope engine... I own bad files or cds like many of us, bad studio treatment, bad engineering files, etc but all sounded better than ever in my system now, they are always bad compared to others files but listening them is more pleasurable now than before my experiments ... I remember when some files were so bad I never listen to them even if I liked the music... The truth is often the files are not so bad, but some audio system does not know how to translate them in musical experience, knowing only to fixate on " details without whole" ...I prefer my musically tuned audio system where exist only music but where isolate sounds details exist no more...All is in perfect equilibrium in musical space without accentuating some details in detriment to others...