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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...
mahgister
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*clic*

"This episode of the Outer Limits: Audiophile Oddysey has been brought to y'all by Damitol.  When your equipment refuses to bring you to orgasm, Damitol....

(Actually, this forum has restored a certain faith in humanity for me...it certainly wandered off into the dark corners...*G*)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQeOm3CuUFY

20:30>26:20

Stop listening to those dead white Euros.

Feed those Fostex something that'll rattle the matter that matters. ;)

(Yeah, I'm just a contrary sort of troll....an odd one, but somebody's got to do it....*G*  Listen to the rest of it.  Knock some dust off those woofs...)
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I am happy to restore your faith in humanity....If you can restore mine it will be a perfect match....
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For sure there exist a limit where any tweaks will affect less and less the audible performance of an audio system, coming after many precedent tweaks that drive the system to his potential best sound...


I think I am near this limit now and that the future for me is linked to a cutting off the link between the audio system and the electrical grid of the house...


Perhaps this is a solution for me in the next months or years to come :

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ecoflow/delta-the-new-standard-of-battery-powered-generator

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Somebody can say to me thinking that my audio system need an upgrading that it will be better to change my dac or amplifier or even the speakers....

My answers is this: 
Most of you, probably half of you readers, already owns pretty good system in all probability, and my experience and experiments allow me to assert that most of the sound quality of a system comes from not only of his inherent quality of design but also and mostly at the end from the treatment of the room and the house, the controls of resonance and vibrations, and the cleaning of the EMI and RFI, and from the tweaks decreasing the noise floor of the audio grid...Then upgrading only a link in my already good audio chain will be an illusory or a feeble upgrading compared to the cutting off the link between the audio system and the electrical grid...
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