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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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:)

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I guess the photos in the freezer tweak is too freaky for you. It’s free. Hel-loo! 🤗
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Not too freaky at all.... It is just that I was too lazy to try it at this time...And if you read my thread you know that I dont lack tweaks to try, I was very busy with my own tweak indeed...

I want to try springs for example but cannot try it now without dismantling my own mechanical platform and heavy speakers under weight with resonators on top :) … I will certainly try springs in the next year...This product and idea of yours is certainly very good and simple to add with my sorbothane sandwich...But it is absolutely not weird is it a problem? Not at all... :)

I had tried in the past some few weird tweaks on the same level of weirdness than the "photos in the freezer" with no great success and I will not speak about because I dont like controversy... The photo in the freezer is fun thing to try at least... 

There is a power scale about the effects produced by tweaks, weird or not, and some tweaks, weird or not, has a small audible effects, near placebo, like my adding of the fluorite to the S.G. was at first listening, before I add a passive antenna to this stone ( this is weird no?) and that makes the audible effect clearly not small and not placebo … I dont feel the urge  to try all tweaks the same month also … Even if they are free... :) 


By the way a stone grid passively cabled with antennas is surely only a rung under the "photos in the freezer" on the scale of freaky tweaks...Hell-looo!! Like you sometimes say , and I add a letter " L" to be more precise... :)


Like always my best to you...
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If you think the powered grid of stones is close to the freakiness of the photos in the freezer tweak you must be thinking of a different photos in the freezer tweak than I am. It’s a freak out! 😲 But I can certainly understand your reticence in talking about such things. Boo! 🤗
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I said a rung under the craziness level.... BOo


A grid of stones is crazy level high... Photos in the freezer absolutely crazy...

I will try it before I die... Sure...Count on me...Why not?
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