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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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Update:

After many hours of listening in my 2 position: nearfield and the regular one the audible effects of the 2 new added Schumann generators + thin golden plate+ tourmaline or Herkimer diamond are evident...

The sound is more airy and less linked to the speakers than ever, like floating in the room or around me in nearfield...More refine sound....

The way to go is USB S.G. because it is cheap and you can put many of them around you (10 for me) and then they work more powerfully on the room acoustics in this way than only one in a not so ideal location....Think about that: for 20 bucks I have something, these 2 new S.G. that feel like the upgrade of an amplifier or like a new dac ….I change no piece of my main gear tough for 2 years now, only adds each times something to refine the controls of my 4 embeddings mostly the electrical one and the acoustical one....

And in most threads now people speak about dac costing a truck load of money or amplifier or speakers without knowing the simple way to upgrade and install rightfully what they already own that is often already top of the line …

The fact that they are not satisfied by the sound they already have speak volume about the lacks of the right embedding for their audio system, if they care about the 4 embeddings at all...For the last 2 years I am no more interested in a sound savior incarnated by a "miraculous" trade mark new brand speakers, dac, or amplifiers....I know what makes any good hi-fi system truly really great....It is cheap and rewarding...



I feel like a fool reading and answering my own posts.... :)
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a remark:

It is incredible but each increasing S.Q. change is incremental and build on the previous one...The road is open and you go on behind each leading improvement idea coming from the last one...

The level of changes I had experienced in the last years exceed by all measure all the changes in my first 6 years of unconscious moves toward improvement, at this times mainly by dreaming about a miraculous piece of gear like the ultimate solution ( Berning ZOTL amplifier for example, and I dont doubt about the high quality of this component I dream to buy one day).


Just a little change in my audio system that is very sensible now can reveal astounding improvement... One inch rectangular piece of Shungite+ copper tape on one side ( what I called a thin"golden" plate) put on only one Schumann generator( I have 10 S.G. ) makes a spectacular improvement in piano timbre and rendition for example...


The more your system is rightly embedded the more some tiny or innocuous modification gives to you some impactful impression....


I am amazed to report here one change after another in my audio system, I am amazed and I am conscious now of this fact: almost all people are unconscious of the higher capabilities of their own audio system …. Dont buy anything costly, think before....

If my remark are useful for only one of you I will be glad....If someone had teach me that the first years would have been less painful less frustrating and more fun....Newcomers like I was, except for buying, we dont know what to do and where to begins... It is simple, there exist mainly 4 embeddings : mechanical, electrical, and 2 acoustical room modifications way, one passive the other active... You begins with these 4, little by little changes....Homemade simple stuff and low cost materials are all is needed...
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I just posted great results with three S.G.s (usb versions)
and 10 foot cables.  I found a plug online that has 3 ports.
Too easy!

I have both Synergistic Research hfts and DIY hfts.

Placing one hft in the middle of the S.G. is very nice.
Maybe I should try the hft mounted on a Shungite rectangle,
attached to the S.R.?
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Try with my thin "golden plate" = one little shungite plate for cell phone+ copper tape on one side...

There is photo on my "virtual system" page...

Place it on the usb platform of the S.G....You can add some tourmaline or Herkimer diamond on top of the golden plate to modify the sound to your liking...

I have both Synergistic Research hfts and DIY hfts
describe these DIY HFTS ?


Thanks for the report...
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By the way the Schumann generator for sure affect the acoustical perception of the room, but I use it with the golden plate and some other stones to enhance the effect...And it is way more powerful with that then only the S.G. without anything else on it...

The S.G. work like a stone " filtering" power enhancement system for the acoustical grid of the room... But Stones and golden plate also "filters" in a way the electrical grid this is my experience when located on the breaker panel for example...

I use the word " filtering" in a metaphorical sense to describe my experience and impressions...Anyway nobody write anything I know of about that phenomenon...

I use the word "filtering" because no stones work in the same window nor in the same level...Be it an amethyst, agate, jasper,fluorite,tourmaline, jade, quartz, lava beads, malachite, shungite, etc, the list is too long to enumerate all the experiments I made with these different stones....

My system cost me 500 hundred dollars and the S.Q. exceed many way much costly system...

Audio is not about electronic engineering only, because a good piece of gear is equivalent to another good piece of gear, modulo some differences for sure; audio is mostly about the embeddings of any system, without which no system can sound at his peak potential possibilities...

Almost all audio forums are misleading and are about buying this or that, not about how to embed the audio components...If what you are is already good, and most of us owns already very decent apparatus, why upgrading like sheep without thinking about the question : how  to embed my audio system?
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