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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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I wanted to try another experiment with the copper tape but I will wait tomorrow for not interfering with this one... the tie-wrap one and the cell phone one...

More I listen now more I am in love, this is a sign of some improvement in nearfield and at normal distance, I perceive an improvement in the soundstage and imaging...But I dont know for sure what is the part of the tie-wraps and the parts of the modified cell that is always near me...

...When I listen to the sound, it is my unconscious that make the analysis not my conscious mind, and I listen to the voice of my unconscious through my feeling, and after my feeling change for the best or the worst I know that there is something changing in my audio system for better or worst...Many people listen with their conscious mind, and they perceive nothing or very little with no confidence...I makes all the tweaks experiments in this mood with almost always running the way through some new improvement, incrementally one after the other...


The "positive bias" or the placebo effect cannot explain all the change that is perceived by many people not only me in my audio system for sure...
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mahgister OP
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Ok the improvement of the soundstage and imaging is plainly evident also in my headphone....I am more baffled than with the speakers... Because the form of the soundstage is not the same than yesterday...

The black tie-wraps is working and the cell modification also perhaps...Incredible...Am I insane?

It is a feeble consolation to think that i am not alone in the craziness, Geoffkait is with me also...

Nevermind, I am in love more and more with my Fostex T10 headphone...By the way I listen to this cd for the last 45 years : David Munrow, the Early music consort of London, The art of the Netherlands, a pure "chef d’oeuvre" of recreation...
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Tip - you can make labels using the red pen, THESE FOSTEX SPEAKERS ARE GREAT AND > O.K. and attach one label to each speaker cabinet. That way you can remove the labels to AB the effects. You can also put a label YOUR NAME > O.K. on each speaker. Especially good to cover the brand name of the speaker with a label.
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I will try that but not the same day.... :)


The change in the headphone is staggering....unmistakable...More coherency in the soundstage...Better dynamic, more transparency...
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