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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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No please dont eat too much tuna! it is very good but a bit contaminated...

Yes I had 4 usb from hong kong and 2 from china + very bad power supply I throw to the sea.... Oups in your tuna I think.... :)

They truly enhance the golden shungite effect in my audio grid... Without my stones the effect of the S.G. is way less amazing...

Perhaps placebo effect, but for the last 3 months I sleep with one at my bed head...The sleep is more deep, less disturbed by the crimes committed in a previous life... :)
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You can tune your system. You can tune a piano. You can even tune a car. One thing you can’t do is tuna fish. 🐟
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Yesterday suddenly I dreamed that I was turned into a tuna fish...My return back from dream today assure me that I was no more what I am not suppose to do, that’s a tuna fish...
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I just place another thin "golden " plate that was on the connector of my external disk from there on top of the 4 capacitors of the S.G. the one with the biggest power supply... The dynamic was enhanced ...Better location for it...
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Today I read an article about a top of the line dac, with a price in the many thousands...My reflexion was, how in the world can I have faith in any description of any reviewer comparing dac ? For sure he was right about the dac, this is a good one, but how to be sure of any comparison when no system is the same, and most people, even reviewers, trust any costly gear more than their own capacity to modify the audio environment with their own ears for their privileged measure apparatus...Need nothing else...

I know for a fact in my own journey that controlling vibrations, treating the room, and cleaning the electrical grid of the house and decreasing the noise floor of the audio system has more impactful effect more than any upgrade, be it a dac or an amp, or even new speakers... My system is good without any of my homemade tweaks, but like I already said I did not loved him in the beginning, but my dac, my amp, and my speakers were carefully choosen by me and are very good gear (mid-fi for sure but very good)… The transforming effect by all these homemade tweaks made me falling in love with them...


Then my reflexion is truly this: Most of us already own very good gear, trust me what is lacking is not an upgrade piece, but only the methods, means, tweaks, knowledge which made us able to transmute our own audio system...All that was unknown to me 7 years ago when I begins to buy pieces of audio, and i was always unsatisfied all the way long till I takes things in my hand...


I apologize to the reader for repeating that, but if I can help one to change his way taking the right direction, without spending thousand dollars of money in upgrade I will be happy...

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