2. misc-audio
  3. 150390-100071

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...
128x128mahgister
mahgister's avatar
mahgister OP
12,987 posts
 
After 2 days of listening music, I can say that the "golden " plates act like lifting a veil that was muddying the sound... For me the noise floor of the electrical grid of the house is key to audio....The 5 golden plates I put on the central electrical panel with other stones already there, and at other locations in the house grid, are the most important means to controls in some way and filtering it in a passive way the general noise levels... Any electronic component introduce some trade-off noise, then any power conditioner for example filters the noise but with a price to pay: the price is the noise these electronic components introduce by themselves... Stones dont had electronic entrails...

But keep in mind that these results are easily audible because I had already heavily modify the system and the room ...
mahgister's avatar
mahgister OP
12,987 posts
 
I resent my lack of business talent.... :)

Take this as a joke, but I am serious also a little bit...If I had covered the whole plate with some resin, called that Magical "golden plate", and sell them 100 bucks each, I think I would have make some couple of thousand dollars profit … loll

All of you, you are lucky, I am a null in money making, takes my idea, try it and report here... It is free and only cost the time to write some impression for feedback...My best...

Important note:
You must put the plates anywhere but not directly on the main gear, amp, dac, or amplifier ( but you can try it behind the speakers cables and electronics)...On the electrical grid and connectors, and on power conditioner , unused wall duplex plugs, router-modem, computer bank connector, computer outpost etc
mahgister's avatar
mahgister OP
12,987 posts
 
People resent the public ridicule, I am like some others for that even if I look like someone who dont cares...

I will reveal one of my tweaks that it is useful to try only when your system is already very good an already optimally soundwise sensible, because the effect is there audible, but not so much in most of out of the box, uncleaned, and uncontroled audio systems and audio grids......

Buy 2 Himalayan salt lamps put them near the speakers and you will observe a more sparkling living sound... The light is beautiful, when the room is dark... The cost low, and the sound more gorgeous... Enjoy and if you are a lazy credulous self proclaimed " scientist" spare me sarcasms....If you are curious and investigative mind try it...Nothing to lost at worst case scenario only magnificent light at the end...


mahgister's avatar
mahgister OP
12,987 posts
 
My last discovery of shungite "golden " plates is an astounding improvement...Many of these plates are on the main electrical house breakers panel...

But there is shungite plate big or smaller, and also shungite thin cell plate at other locations and cube or pyramidal shungite...It is very important to tape the copper tape on the 4 faces of the pyramid for example to let nude side only, the basis, on top of my 2 Shumann Generator for example, or the golden face of the thin plate glued on top of some end plug power cable...There is more photos illustrating that on "my system" section...

This gives a more refine effect from the cleaning or filtering shungite...
geoffkait's avatar
geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
I just Ordered four small shungite plates suitable for placing on my 2 Schumann USB devices plus two other things to be determined. These are very nice polished shungite squares I got on eBay from some outfit in New York at four bucks each.
More to discover