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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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I’d be very careful if I were you. Have you given any thought to what your family would say? Hey, Dad, what’s the deal with your photos in here? And what’s with all the writing on the photos? x’26’x ? ‘x = PRESENT TIME ? SAFE HOLE = O. K. What the hell is this?? Dad!! 😬
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mahgister OP
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Of what people think of me about my craziness, I dont give a dam, especially in my family...

Of what people think of me about my moral standing it is another story and it is way more important to me... :)

This is your evening lesson, son!


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I put a golden plate, not on the central electrical panel of my house in the basement, I had already 5 G.P. there, no, this time, I put it on an electrical breaker panel in the second floor of my house near my audio room... I had only lava beads on this panel already, adding the golden plate makes a big difference...


I accidentally forget today to connect 2 USB Schumann Generator, and the sound was slightly more compressed, I connect them anew and bingo! the imaging was there like never...


This 10 dollars S.G. works marvellously and at around 80 bucks for all the 7 ( I dont count the BLACK UFEEL one at  50 bucks) I dont know if the top Hi-Fi audiophile Acoustic Revive one will be able to replace them all... I dont think so for the simple reason that their range of action all around me at different height variation is better than only one, even more precise and powerful... The Black UFEEL is precise tough and in the critical spot seating on my screen computer  that makes a big difference...The Acoustic revive S.G. is way too big to be located there...
But the difference in cost is so much I dont ever think about that one...And they work audibly well indeed located around my listening position in my small audio room...Then for me it is the deal...Cheap to replace also... 

And believe it or not I use one of them near my bed and my sleep has never been better for the last 3 months...  
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The only thing this audio hobby have teach me is that what we already owns is able to reach a potential sound quality unbeknownst to us, sometimes at very high level...Nevermind the price....


The only thing the audio market advise us generally is to buy to upgrade the audio system we already owns without thinking about the conditions of his right implementation and embedding which could make it able to reach this true sound quality potential unknown to us to this day...Nevermind the price...


Think about that discovery: most of us dont know the fine audio possibilities of our audio system that are veiled behind, vibrations, high noise level, bad acoustic room, and the least effort to "tweak" what we have, when we contemplate the easy solution : to buy.... Nevermind the price....


This thread about miracles is truly about the greatest miracle in audio:


The transformation of a system we dont like enough in one that is at the top of his potential and which we begins to truly love...Nevermind the price... 
ejr1953
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I'm an IT guy who has written hundreds of interfaces, integrating dis-similar systems with each other.  As I've pursued my journey as an audiophile, I paid attention to the "synergies" of the various components I've selected over the years.  As I've gone thru the process of upgrading this and that, I've understood that it's difficult to say "this amp is the best" or "those speakers are the best", rather it's the synergies between this amp and those speakers that produces an outcome that either "works" or "doesn't work"...for my hearing.

Fortunately, I've been able to hear "this amp" with "those speakers" and enjoy a system with a lot of great synergies, one that I'll enjoy for years to come.
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