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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...
mahgister
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UPDATE Kambaba jasper

Wow!

I am lucky to had bought 4 spheres at a times where they were much cheaper.... Their effect is stronger in my controlled embedded audio system especially on top of my Sansui amplifier....This kind of jasper increase the imaging from my first use of them but now more audibly, i dont know why at all.... :)


i will give to you an example of use, the golden plate will give more meat to the sound but will slightly compress it, add kambaba jasper and you will keep the meat but you will erase the compression and reinforce the imaging....It is an example of complementary use of stones.... At the end with many kind of stones you keep only the positive.... This is really like an upgrade.... And better because of the low cost and sometimes it is more powerful than an upgrade because you can work all aspect of sound.......

I will never use a tube amplifier anymore.... when i hhave one i try plenty of tubes, with subtle changing colors in sound each time but that was very small and limited effects compared to my stones tweaking without speaking even of the controls of the 3 embeddings....

Except i dreamed to buy the tube ZOTL Berning amplifier but it is another story.....
bemused
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Although not a tweak per se, the ADD-Powr approach to extracting improvements to audio is nothing short of a "miracle."
Power system "tuning", "harmonizing" are areas that have been largely ignored.
May I suggest, that all of the products are worthy of serious consideration to audition. With a 30 day money back guarantee, you have nothing to lose.
The ElectraClear or Symphony are good products for first timers.
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Thanks for your report bemused.

But i prefer homemade low cost solution for me for now.... Others can be interested tough.... My "golden plates" controls noise level all along my house electrical grid for low cost....

An important point also to keep in mind: ANY electronic component that "harmonize" or "tune" the electrical grid of the house will, in spite of his good "harmonizing" work, introduce, by way of his electronic active working components, a noise of his own to the encompassing noise floor of the electrical grid of the house.... Then even if the results are positive and very good there is a trade-off that will be introduced in the grid management....My own "golden plates" are passive materials only ,without electronical components, and then are able to reduce the noise level without a trade-off in the noise management.... :)
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UPDATE Herkimer diamonds:

I add athird little pack of H.D. to the 2 i already has added on top of of my Sansui amplifier transformer with the same positive results ....

After my "golden plates" Shungite+copper, the H.D. are the best minerals that create miracles in audio..... Tourmaline, kambaba jasper and agate and many others after that....

Remember that my herkimer diamonds were always used in complementratiry with other stones (shungite in the golden plate, or agate, or tourmaline mainly) to equilibrate and compensate the effects....It is in some way a tuning works....

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UPDATE "golden plate"

I add a small golden plate with grade one shungite elite piece on the cable that go from the optical  converter to my dac...

Great increase in clarity....

I add 3 little piece of elite shungite to the power cord where my computer is connected, same results...

lesson:  Any spot upstream of your audio system need some stones or "golden plate"...

If the results is a little compression of the sound replace it by herkimer diamond or add some herkimer diamond to the golden plate.... 
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