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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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geoffkait
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Only in my toothpaste. 😬
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mahgister OP
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With all my respect and friendship, you know that fluor is not good for the brain effectiveness?  :)
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That would certainly explain a lot. 🤪
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mahgister OP
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You were probably a genius in your youger years before all that fluor toothpaste.... :)

You are not totally stupid now by any means...I never used fluor toothpaste myself perhaps that explain a lot...

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I will not put a photo of my new S.G. tweak in the virtuel system section, because with the 2 H.D. and the golden plate it is enough … If I put a photo with a fluorite small tower near it with a small antenna attached to the top I will awaken the not so amicable monster naysayers... I dont feel for that these days... :)


By the way the fluorite+ antenna make the sound waves gliding, more vividly coming and more vividly recessing, then the imaging is way more subtle in his hierarchical organization...True great tweak..

Indeed with this antenna the fluor pyramid added stone is no more a so subtle tweak, it is very audible and enhance the action of the rest...


I never had so much musicality before, is it an end? Probably not...

Give me the one million bucks system that I listen to on youtube and that "seems" to sound like a microscope more than a musical instrument, and with a few bucks I will make it a true musical audio system, not a sound-wise precision instrument only... :) This is sheer arrogance of my part, I know, but anyway the truth... Most people dont know how to make their system better with peanuts...They must pay one million bucks to have the assurance that their system is good enough...

And most of the times they think that good audio is reducible to good electronic components only, without thinking about not only the acoustic of the room, the resonances and vibrations controls, the electro-magnetic grid of the house and room, the total level of noise treatment but more than that the means also to act and work in the intervals between these fields with many simple tweaks...
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