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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I spend the last hour decrypting the last 4 posts dialogues without success... I need a new Champollion dreaming to translate this unknown dialect... :)
In the meantime, for relaxing I am listening Kurt Weill, Dreigroschenoper, the version with Nina Hagen and Max Raabe...

Another level of sound quality I do not enjoy a month ago...incredible...Same cd files, and not the same imaging at all and a better rendition of the voices timbre and instrument... Proof for my ears about these tweaks value...
Now a particular update on my actual changes and improvement...

I added one very big "golden" plate on the central breaker panel and at the same times another big plate on the router-modem of my house(there is 2 plates instead of one now); after removing some 2 days ago some thin plates off the S.G. (3 now had thin plate, 5 had not) with a resulting more balancing effect and after that, 2 days ago also, adding one big plate on the peripheral breaker panel near my audio room, all these make very great upgrading changes indeed...

In fact the changes for the last few days are staggering, they are cumulatively going in the same direction always: clarity, natural timbre, better dynamics, 3-d holographic encompassing imaging in nearfield or regular distance listening...

If I had read this forum thread of mine like I was a complete stranger and not the writer, I would had been very sceptic, especially with the repeating same metaphors used to describe a set of continuous upgrading that seems without end...

There is an end in fact, the process seems without end only because my audio system was one year ago so far off his maximum potential quality, that his actual sound is in no way related to this initial sound...My amazement comes with that... And each little change has appeared big to me at first because they were unexpected and very audible... It is because of this that I know for fact that most of us dont even know the potential of their actual owned audio system to begins with...I am near the end of this process I think with these golden plates tweaks and other methods I was using...With all these last results,  i dont need to upgrade my gear, except for a fundamental upgrade that I cannot afford anyway, going from an under one thousand system to a 15 thousand one to really beat it... This speak volume about my happiness and actual satisfaction because music is music, I have it, and I dont feel frustration in any way...





In the next few days the postal office will deliver to me 2 other big plates, I will put one on the router-modem adding to the 2 already there, and put one more on the central breaker panel...These will be the last moves probably... To continued....


My best to all...