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...
128x128mahgister
When you know about something, that something begins to exist without doubt  and in a new way, you can think about it and perceive it in a new contextual embedding...

I know for sure , for the last 2 years, especially in the last months, that the electrical embedding, the radio interference or any electro-magnetic interferences, interact negatively with any electronical pieces of audio, increasing the level of noise...

Today, this knowledge permeating me, I was looking at my amplifier in a new way and at a new angle, then i decided suddenly to try something that I never have tried before... I was seeing the tone controls of my Sansui AU 7700, some kind of small aluminium arms, welling out of their hole or apertures in the metal frame of the amplifier, and suddenly, like the holes on a unused wall plug, I begin to understand that these holes are like some doors open for any electrical interference, like some vulnerable holes in the shielding armor of the thick frame...

I decide to put some 5 thin quartz sticks horizontally layering on the small arms...


And guess what?


The more refined sound coming from the amplifier trough the speakers touch another level, a truly more subtle and delicate imaging was being born before my eyes ( ears) a truly unheard musicality … :)



There is no end to the cleaning of noise it seems... The musicality is now so refined, it is like I bought another better amplifier ....Incredible truth I know... Simple as that : 5 thin sticks of pink or smoked quartz made miracles in an already heavily tweaked audio system...The change is audible in regular listening and in near listening field without any doubt nor placebo effect... Too great impactful effect to misplace it... My best to all music lovers...



IMPORTANT OBSERVATION:
In a less cleaned embeddings than my actual audio system, the same tweak would not gives the same perceived impactful effect... Probably way less amazing, because the increased level of noise already there will veiled his impact greatly...For example decreasing the noise coming from the central breakers panels of the house is more a priority and will gives some clarity to the sound, making possible for some future subtle and more refined changes, but absolutely no less spectacular improvements in any way, to be perceived greatly...




GENERAL UPDATE:

After many experiments, I must conclude that the "golden" plates are at their best used in these locations:

On the exterior electrical meter of the house
On the central breakers panel of the house
On the peripheral breaker panel of the room
Behind the speakers
On unused wall plugs
On some interconnections ( not all of them) determined by listening experiments
On the computer router or modem
On some of the computer connectors (hard drive, optical convertor etc)
On the power conditioner

They works optimally where they are not too much near the audio system except thin "golden" plate on some connection which location are determined by listening experiments...

I decide to remove the thin "golden plates" and keep only Herkimer diamond and tourmaline on some of the Schumann generators... Sound is more balanced with some of the S. G. with the "golden" thin plates +tourmaline, but Some S.G. with only Quartz or Herkimer Diamond or tourmaline...

On my small usb S.G., 3 had a "golden" plate with tourmaline or H.D. now, and the 5 others had tourmaline or some other stones only...These varieties and variations create a more harmonious sound...

GENERAL UPDATE CONTINUING :


I had counted 15 big "golden" plates in my system + 15 small one...

The sound will be compressed if the G.P. are too much near amp, dac, cd player etc...
In general using them with tourmaline or Herkimer Diamond or quartz will be balancing or compensating, decreasing the compression, increasing all positive effects...

The most effects will be on the breaker panels and behind speakers...


At the end effectively located, with compensating stones, I had 3-d imaging, with no compression, on the contrary an atmospheric imaging...


The key is to experiment because each audio system is very peculiar and ask specifics tweaking...


My best to all...


When you put a nephrite, or a jade, a jasper, a quartz, a tourmaline, an agate, an amethyst, a shungite, an Herkimer diamond, a malachite, or a chrysocolla, and many other less audio-wise efficient stones, like ruby, labradorite, fluorite etc., on a Schumann Generator, located in the room, the effect on the sound is VERY SPECIFIC, and none of these stones will act only passively by solely absorbing and transforming vibrations... Some like shungite or lava beads are not even piezo-electric crystals and their working effect is similar in power and they are in fact more powerful, and they must be used with some cautions to be positively effective...

Each stones seems to lend to the S.G. or near the gear where the stones are located, some VERY SPECIFIC quality inherent to their own structure...This quality work actively like a filtering action potential at the acoustical and electronical and electro-magnetic level, all at the same times... This observation of mine is there to convey my impression and is absolutely not science nor scientific, only metaphors...But anyway nobody has never explained to me the facts discovered in these experiments with sound...Perhaps there is a scientist that can, unbeknownst to me; probably, but for the moment I need to hear from him...
 You can add as many magic stones as you want mahgister, you will never come close to what I can do with one simple diyèd conductor.