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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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My wife just said to me that I rant about an atom of dust in the air...I think this is true... :) 

I am very happy to welcome and thank you for your nod....From my heart, will light be between us all....
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I cannot thank you enough for your many kind remarks with passing times...

I will pray God for you...


My best and for sure some maté wait for you....
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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour...."

W.Blake - Auguries of Innocence (1863)
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Wow! Blake is one of the true great genius of all humanity...I cannot thanking you enough for this reminder you put here of this fact...

" The universe has no outside, and the cell no inside, why do I have the two ? " - Groucho Marx


"Why do you put all these words in your mouth M. Marx? Because we lend only to the riches" -Groucho Marx
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N’th update :


I dont understand nor I had any explanation at first for the reason why putting the golden plates on telephone boxes in my basement causes so enormous improvement...Way more details across all frequencies...

But few minutes ago I think that my audio system upstream begins with the optical line, the optical cables that the telephone company Bell use, and these 2 boxes are directly connected to my computer and to my dac by this way...Then not only the central breakers panel is important, the 2 telephone boxes are on par with the breakers for the S.Q decrease or increase....My best...


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