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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Each action taken in one of the 4 embeddings are irreplaceable by another action in one or even by 3 different actions in all of the three other remaining embeddings...


For example the positive effects of a better control of the vibrations-resonance cannot be replaced by a better cleaning of the electrical grid of the house, or by a passive acoustical modification by changing some materials on the walls of my room, or in a more active way by introducing some Helmholtz resonator, or my "singing" resonator, or some Schumann generator...If you dont control the mechanical vibrations you will not be able to compensate that by acoustical modification of the space, passive or active one,or by some tweaks in the electrical grid...


Each modifications in each of the embeddings generate some specific effets that the other modifications cannot replace....


An audio system is a complex web of intrications between acoustical space, mechanical and electro-magnetic interaction...So complex that when you think about it and the way audio system are sold in any commercial office, that boggle the mind to think how incomplete is the information necessary to create a real hi-fi experience.... It is easy also to create the illusory belief that paying much money to go upgrading some gear from one rung of the scale going toward the higher one will give you real Hi-Fi... At best it is an half truth....


We cannot remedy the problems of the acoustical space of a room with a better dac, or a better amplifier, or a better speakers system... Same thing is true for the electrical grid....Upgrading an amplifier will not improve the electrical noise floor of the house....


If we remind ourself that the % of the S. Q. is for more than half of it dependent of these embeddings, not only of the electronic components, we begins to understand many false assumption about audio....

I say all that because this evening, changing slightly the orientation of some of my resonators gives me a better dynamic and a better image in the room....Slight change= Big improvement, sometimes....


Most of the times we need a new piece of gear like a fish need a bicycle....
I think Groucho Marx never said that.... :)
No news from China for my graphene+mica formula... ) :
But because of the health general problem, all activity if not stopped are very slow indeed...

I wait for my 12 shungite plate tough from Russia, and the 12 "golden" plates will achieve to make my system truly great …. (: 

With or without the graphene formula the golden plates are marvellous with no negatives....
Update:

It seems all details count in Audio...

The power supply of my dac, Ifipower, was on some cork plate with shungite, near the floor of my room....

I forget that this shungite was nude without copper, then this was not a "golden" plate....Today I go to a flea market, I spot a 5 pound alabaster thick plate (old ashtray) I bought it...


I put it on top of the cork plate on the floor and put the Ifipower on it...I transform my shungite plate in a"golden" plate with copper tape....I had forget about that power supply because it is under the wooden box where is my computer...

It takes only one minute of listening to hear the more detailed sound.... :)

The "golden" plate like they are now are the real deal.... The alabaster plate also decouple better the Ifipower from the floor than just the cork plate only.... That work flawlessly with no negatives ….
There exist so many points in the complex grid encompassing the audio system in each house that only incremental step by step controls methods, using multiple ways in its 4 dimensional embeddings, can gives to each of us the solution to a greater S.Q.; an upgrade S.Q. without any purchase of a costly electronic component for a fraction of the price.

I read an article about a 40 thousand dollars P.C. USB server and dac, and comparing the same musical files in my P.C. with the impressions of the reviewer, gives me the feeling that the gap between this marvellous piece of engineering and my humble audio system, but very tweaked and controlled installation, was not an abyss... Most people underestimated the noise level on their house electrical grid and think that upgrading for example the conditioner will solve the problem, or purchasing a miraculous power supply...All that will give an upgrade decreasing the noise level, but introducing a noise of its own....

The law of diminishing returns is way more lower than most of us think when we address the embeddings of our audio system the right way, without introducing new electronical component with their own noise level ...

There exist NO electronical component that will not contribute in an higher noise level.... It is always a trade-off...This is the reason why " non electronical way" to act on the electrical grid is so impactful....Personally I choose the passive ways with stones, especially my "golden" plates....No trade-off in the noise floor....

I am astounded by the fact that the S.Q. we lost, unbeknownst to us, because of a too much higher noise floor, is totally out of our consciousness like a blind spot... It surprise me each times when I lower the noise floor, because it is an incremental step by step process, no miracle here....

 Perhaps going off the grid is the way, but the cost are way too much for me now to try it....But even battery introduce noise then my "golden" plates will be useful there also....


UPDATE:

Today I added 2 other USB  Schumann generators to my 8 others...With "golden" thin plates and Herkimer diamond or tourmaline on the connector plugs in the wall and on top of them...

There are located all around me at left and right, front and rear...It is magical, the imaging is better each time I added one.... That cost is low 10 bucks each except the costly one in front of me....It is way better than one costly one, because they are all around and work uniformly....

I will return in my heaven now.... My best to all....