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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... I took the plunge and purchased some shungite tile,black tourmaline and herkimer diamonds.
Try that with a cooper self adhesive tape on the external side of the application.... And try that on the main router of your house and any lovations all along the electrical grid of the house... But NOT on the main gear, except behind the speakers electronic and connectors...

Power supply and surge protectors, power strips etc....
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UPDATE : Upgrading to 38 " Golden Strings"

I add today 8 new lava strings of 2 feet lenght each one...

My grid od "golden strings" is located between my head and the speakers in an irregular/regular array...

Ears and intuition works well together indeed...

Only you ears can advise you? who else? No room is the same, every different content has his own acoustic properties, the furniture is different because of his materials composition, form, and location, and the room geometry is different, and the location of the different audio system will be also different... How can you use a gross rule pre-establish by a computer equation that ignores all that and base his calculus only on some pre-selected frequencies nodes ? And many "specialist"  goe with the rules, it is more effficient when you have no time and many customers waiting...

Ok my rant is over....

This addition gives me more of the same: more claity, imaging, soundspace and dynamic...

Do you know what the word "flabbergast" means?

I am....

I go back to heaven....
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UPDATE:  Three  "Golden plates" on the electrical external meter of my house instead of one..



Remember that i add 3 yesterday, but let only one because in spite of the greater clarity (decreasing EMR) i had the impression of a slight compression of my soundstage...

Today i replace them three on the meter, and after all the room modification with the new many " Golden Strings", clarity increase but no loss of soundstage...

In my favorite playing of the Chopin "Nocturnes" by Moravec, the clarity was revealing more the left hands chords were more clean...

This cd is pure recording marvel....and the interpretation is top of the pianistic world....

"Golden plates " second only to the "Golden fingers" in my few homemade miraculous devices...

I say it myself because if i dont say it who will?

Audio cost big time not big money.... :)
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This week is the more amazing and rewarding of all my audio journey...

I cannot imagine more at all....

There is an end to increasing S.Q.

I dont even want to buy my dreamed upgrades now....Too much money anyway....

I go back to Chopin....
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« "These equations are my slaves" says some acoustician god idolizing his model...I own their initial conditions... But consciousness in his room has no white beard, only ears, and dont give a dam about differential equations that are not also algorithmic»-Groucho Marx
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