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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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It seems that only me lives with low cost audio miracles after all....Because nobody report anything new except me... :)

My last discovery is astounding because of the improvement and the low cost...

My last improvement is with my "golden" shungite plate and tiles...

You take a shungite plate and you put on one side some thin auto-adhesive copper tape, and you put the plate with the adhesive out of the surface of the electrical panel, or router-modem, or cable, or unused duplex wall plugs etc and miracles happens: more imaging and more natural sound....This is low cost and simply magical...Enjoy it, it is almost free...(except the 10 dollars plate shungite 250 grams) For a cable or a unused duplex plug you can buy a shungite cell phone thinner and smaller plate for a few bucks...

I have 5 shungite plates of 250 grams on my electrical central panel in my basement, the shungite plate improve the sound way better with the copper tape on the side exterior to the applied surface...


You can see a photo of my modem-router with a golden shungite plate on it in my private system section here...

Enjoy the miracle... 


Important note: 
Shungite "golden" plate work best in all location except directly on the dac and amplifier, better to place them on connectors, power supplies, power conditioner, router-modem, electrical panel ,unused wall duplex plugs etc...
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This idea comes to me when I tought about the possibility of shielding the shungite plate on one side to improve the effect of the shungite in one direction of the magnetic field....It seems to works...I am no scientist and I apologize for my speculation.... The important fact is that works and in comparison with some audiophile products cost peanuts...

The improvement is there and in the same audible range than my best other tweaks...Imaging and naturalness of the instrument timbre is more, way more there... Is this tweak comparable for his positive effect to other audiophile more costly products? I dont know but for few bucks for each plate, the improvement is astounding, and astounding because very audible immediately, no other words come to me...

My best to all....
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We are humans and we think something has more value if many people pay something more than peanuts for it.... I am human too and I dream to be able to purchase many audiophile products I cannot afford...


My "golden" Shungite plate cost peanuts and it works....But for sure even me I wanted to try the costly audiophile products one day, because it is costlier and despite me, I think that these products must be way better than my poor tweaks...Except for a miracle in my bank account this will never be possible...

But if you have already musical sound quality even at a low level experience and at low cost, you already enjoyed the music and can forget about the sound quality at least....... I thank God for this inspiration, i at least have a way better musical experience now.... And it is also rewarding to create, invent, experiment, and play, at least as much as only buying finished product designed by others, then I am grateful.... 
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I forget to mention that my "golden" shungite plate improves also the details and the higher frequencies, not only imaging, and natural timbre....It is only some hours that I listen to my music after that tweaks I created during the last night and I am flabbergasted...

There is indeed plenty of cymbals and percussion in this excellent cd of Freddie Hubbard " First light", the mastering of sound in this pieces are very good...And it is easy to remember that the last listening session before my tweaks was never so detailed indeed...
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I enjoy very much the discussion with ghosts, spectral entities, dead audiophiles, and silent friends here...No objections, no criticisms, no accusations, and nothing except polite and mute confirmation... Paradise indeed...My salutation and my best to all this crowd...
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