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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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I know that information fields exist indeed...I am not like the crowd, if you know what i means! :)

But in this precise case, the BELL provider of my internet computer optical cables has some boxes located, upstream the router which is on my wife desk, in my basement... This is where I put 4 new "golden" plates.... And this is part of the electrical grid of my house generally speaking....

For the moment I have not investigated, like you, information fields...It will comes indeed after I will de done with these 3 embeddings in four parts ( i distinguish now active and passive acoustical room controls)...The fourth will be more subtle to investigate like you know already...And I dont think this is interesting to investigate the fourth with the physical 3 others in bad shape...

A remark:

If I may add something to your sayings my friend
This is the dimension of imagination.
I will say that this is the dimension of active creative imagination, that makes perception possible, not the passive one that agitate the deluded spirits...


My best from the past to the future...

" Ears are like spiders in their webs"- Groucho Marx


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But do you believe the shungite plates are preventing RF from entering the router box and thus from entering the audio circuits? Do you believe the shungite plates are somehow absorbing RF that may be inside the router box? Be very careful before answering. 😀
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I believe God exist....

I know that shungite does not work with piezo electrical effect, I can believe shungite work against RF but I dont know that... What I believe and know is that stones in an electro magnetic field work in a way and modify its effect...My metaphor for it is " filtering" because no stones act on the exact same frequencies in the same manner.... But all that is speculation... I know for sure that crystals and stones affects acoustical perception of music why? Explain it to me.... 

Be careful before answering if you do.... :)
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" Believing and knowing are on the same hermeneutical spiral" - Dr. Groucho Marx
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I never claimed or even suggested shungite was piezoelectric. Only crystals can be piezoelectric. So, there’s that. But my point seems to have gone wooosh! over your head because shungite can not (rpt not) act on EM waves by shielding or absorption because the entire component would have to covered with shungite. RF would simply do and end run around the shungite. 🏈

Shungite is not like a Bounty Towel, the Quicker Picker Upper. So what left? Well, there is placebo effect. Don’t get me wrong. I would not object to a placebo effect every once in a while. It occurs to me the latest and greatest audiophile products employ Graphene, not shungite. But maybe there is a market for shungite, too. Let’s wait and see. 👀

Pop quiz! 🤗 What do Graphene, shungite, graphite and carbon fiber all have in common?
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