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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 OP
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No crowds to worry about - I will send the rest of the family away on a vacation somewhere (including my Vizsla - but he is an adorable little fool who likes music and you may just want him prancing around with us as we optimize my listening space)..

And since money is not of any interest to you, please allow me to instead upgrade your system to a 6 figure one - I shudder like a Sc-Human resonator at the thought of what your passive and active multi factor controls could do when paired with a system of that caliber..
I dont know if you are joking or not anymore...But i know that you like to mock audiophile very much....especially the one who take themselves seriously like me...Then i can smile with you....

But anyway when i listen music in my system, in spite of his limitations, the sound already fill my room and is very good...

I dont want to improve it by working on your system or any other one for a month full time or more sorry...It take times not money to tune a system....

If i could do it, you could; with all the cues i gave in my thread the fun will be yours to make it yourself....

My room is completely "nut" esthetically, and strangers want to put me on an asylum, before listening to my system tough...Not so much after...i remind you that NONE of my devices cost more than peanuts...

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😊😊😊😊😊😊

Thanks for the offer tough....If i was 20 years old i would have loved to travel free of charge....But like i said i prefer now walking my dog....

Add me to your list of "nut" audiophile in the mean time, i dont give a damn...


Thanks for the laughs....But for now it is enough, i will go back to music...

anton_stepichev
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Threepenny opera of Kurt Weill with Lotte Lenya 1958 version :
https://www.amazon.com/Weill-Threepenny-Opera-Kurt/dp/B0000026HI/ref=pd_sbs_2?pd_rd_w=6koxC&pf_r...
listen side no 15, The procurer ballad, 4minute 38 seconds:
I wish I could listen to this live at your place. But you describe the sensation so deliciously that one can feel them almost as if they were alive. You have a talent for writing convincingly.
I know how important it is to work on the listening room in such a manner and read your advises with great interest. Now i have to digest them.
Thank you once again.
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mahgister OP
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I wish I could listen to this live at your place. But you describe the sensation so deliciously that one can feel them almost as if they were alive. You have a talent for writing convincingly.
I know how important it is to work on the listening room in such a manner and read your advises with great interest. Now i have to digest them.
Thank you once again.


My goal here was to insist about the not very well known fact that it is impossible to overestimated the power of room control over an upgrade of electrical gear, if our basic actual gear is relatively good for sure to begin with tough...

This subtle point have escaped many....

My audio system is only an average 500 bucks well chosen pieces tough, and surprizing only because of my working embedding controls... Like i already said without any controls my system,in spite of being a good one sounded awful to my taste....
It is completely different now....People upgrade because they dont know HOW to install their system in an optimal settings to gain the optimal sound quality.... And all audio market pointed only to upgrades like the ONLY solution for an audiophile experience.... And owners of 100,000 dollars system dont like my pretense... But i never pretend that my system sound like a 100,000 bucks one, only more musical if their system is badly embedded... And it is this way most of the times.... It is more easy to bought ,plug and play that thinking hard about embeddings controls and taking the time needed to do it.... But it was fun....And cost peanuts...

My deepest respect to you and thanks for your kind interest...
anton_stepichev
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mahgister, have you ever encountered meteorites in your practice? I read on Russian forums there are people who highly appreciate their ability to influence the sound. I wonder how they compare to shungite.
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