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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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Do you have a conditioner MKGUS? Do you listen trough your computer? if so you have a router...

Place a shungite plate behind or in front of this router and listen to your music...You will know first hand how interference are anywhere...If you had a conditioner or a power strip, place on top of them shungite+tourmaline or beads of chrysocolla ...All other stones are possible, not one is filtering the noise the same manner, all stones act complementarily, particularly efficiently if cabled connected together...Each stones has his own effect on the sound very audible and different than the others...I learned how to use them with experiments...

These experiments are the beginning of a process where with each stones near your gear or on top, and on the interconnect cable or many cables, you gained incrementally, small addition with a next one, some great improvement... After that I cabled all my stones... I know, this seems silly :) but that works...

After that I use 6 cheap usb chineese Shumann Generator cabled with stones on them connected to this grid...

Remember that room treatment is imperative  and various materials and means to couple-decouple mechanically all your gear from vibrations-resonance... ( i use 20 Helmholtz homemade bottles also +my room home made treatment)
bemused
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Very interesting discussion here. 
May I just throw in the idea of resonance. Resonating signals is an interesting phenomenon, audio signals included whether acoustic or electronic.
Imo a great tweak, and a fair value for the price are the early QRT Quantum products as well as the current ADD-Powr ElectraClear and Symphony field generators made by Coherence Systems. 
Talk about resonance these gizmos really do a sweet number to my system!
Even they can be tweaked by the crystals, ferrite materials, etc.
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bemused thanks my friend for your interesting remarks.... Can you gives us more details about your experience and these products? For example the models you owns, the change they provide, the improvement in some counts? The price/ ratio quality for you? How do you tweaked them? Thanks for your time and participation... My best to you...


I am really interested by the electraclear because of the low price (75 dollars) and their idea if I understand is original and ring a bell in my head it seems so....

The description of how his product works ring a bell in my head, because perhaps the crystals and stones coupled to a Schumann Generator that is linked to my stones grid work like that it seems: inducing a resonance that affect the different coupled electro-magnetic fields of the room which enhanced by the crystals and stones improves the imaging ,timbre, etc.. Like I already said I am not a scientist at all, my intuitive stance is only a way to convey a possibility of an explanation, not an actual explanation...
bemused
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I own a couple Symphony Pros and several ElectraClears. The change is such that the openness in the sound stage is remarkable. The sound is fuller more rounded. When removed the sound simply collapses as if the air went out of the balloon.
The ElectraClears really clarify the lows to mids and some, whereas the Symphony units open up the mids to the highs. They are modest in manufacture perhaps, but still are attractive enough and worthy of sharing a space in a rack or on a nearby shelf. I've placed some tourmaline and shungite in a baggies near the power cord or on the ElectraClears.
A little goes a long way, as too much might lower noise but kind of emphasize the bass frequencies.




 
bemused
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I spent about $800-850 to procure the above.
It is cumulative in that, yes, more than one adds more realism to the sound. You can hear such detail and even ambiance in the room where the recording was made becomes very apparent.
The recordings sound believable, very authentic, because now the harmonic details have emerged which were always there but were not readily perceivable. I attribute this because of resonance applied by way of low frequency field "tuning", if you will, the audio signal in the system.

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