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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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mahgister OP
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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...
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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.
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Let them not touch the horizontal antenna of the S.G. and cover the 4 faces of the pyramid with copper tape....If they are cube let the basis nude also...If they are cell phone thin plate cover one side with copper tape...

I am very curious of your impression, if you can make an exception for me and saying what you think.... :)

My best...And thanks in advance for your report...
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Verify if they are genuine shungite because some ebayers sell fake shungite...The true source of shungite is a deposit in Russia-Ukraine not in US or Spain...If they are cell phone thin plate they are probably guenine shungite… The profit on that is to  low to fake them I think...But beware for the bigger chunk...
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I must say that in my heavily modified audio system the audible effect of gluing the copper on top of the shungite plate is immediately audible anywhere I put them, even on top of the S.G. or the router-modem etc...


I think that this golden tape of copper act like giving an orientation to the "field filtering effect" of the shungite….I speak here "metaphorically" to describe and communicate what I think about that, this not science neither an explanation by any means nor in any way...

There is another metaphorical explanation :
It is not only placebo effect, but I think my wife gives me LSD.... :)
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