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...
128x128mahgister
ANOTHER UPDATE: Your speakers dont like to live with 4 empty ceiling corners....

On the five corners in my room now the fourth have been treated by rectangular aluminium covered cardboard plate and a triangular one, forming on the corner a kind of half pyramid......


I was not dreaming one month ago about another increase in quality so much audible.... I was really thinking that my embedding journey was over now....I was just listening music not the sound....Β 
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What a mistake....

I read 30 years ago about the particular effect of shape on the quality of the energy field.... Corner was not the best place for positive energy.... The great Austrian architect Rudolf Steiner was also replacing often corners in his design by regular or irregular undulatingΒ  polyedral shape...

3 days ago listening music all that comes to my mind....

A bit of cardboard and aluminium paper, a bit of transparent tape.... All was done....

Another fantastic acoustical embedding passive control free of charge for those of us who dont walk together dancing to the same tune with most....πŸ‘πŸπŸ‘πŸπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸπŸ•β€πŸ¦Ί

Merry Christmas....πŸŽ„πŸŽ€πŸŽˆπŸŽπŸ˜Œ

I return to violin music, it is better than ever here......
Merry Christmas, Mahgister. Can you post a photo of your Christmas corner ornament? 😊 I'm having a difficult time conjuring up your design. Thanks.
Ok Derek i will do it i apologize for time delay....

Just a word: nevermind the design, the idea is to suppress the empty concave corner and made it a convex polyedral shape with a square and a triangle pieces....

Merry Christmas to you....


My room is a like an adjunct brain connected to my soul and the sound waves are our dual thinking process ...

This was my imagination all along my acoustical embeddings explorations....

Food for tought.... 😎😌😊
Someone just said to me that you can tweak a turntable but not a dac....It is ridiculous .... 😎

Most people are unconscious of the fact that ANY electronic component is a GENERIC design which will contribute to the final S.Q ONLY by a SPECIFIC installation in the three controlled embeddings, nevermind the fact that it is a turntable or a dac...And embeddings controls are not disparate tweaks...But it is another story i already adressed... 😏🧐

NO generic design can sound the same in different specific environment....It is precisely the reason why all reviews are anecdotes and not facts...

What is significative with reviews is their numbers statistics, negative or/and positive, not the details of each one....

I bought my Sansui AU 7700 because there is not one negative review in 50 years... Try and look for one.....πŸ˜›

Except for the very rich people who can afford to enroll an acoustician, and an electrician and a mechanical engineer, and buy the best costly engineered gear; it is not money that will give to most of us audiophile experience, it is the rightfull controls of the three embeddings, and that can cost peanuts but you need ears and brain....

Money is finally not so useful or indispensable in audio, except for those who dont use their brain....😊


Β« What is food for tought for some poor fellow is bullshit for the bankerΒ»-Groucho Marx




Merry Christmas....