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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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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.
bemused
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Very interesting discussion here. 
May I just throw in the idea of resonance. Resonating signals is an interesting phenomenon, audio signals included whether acoustic or electronic.
Imo a great tweak, and a fair value for the price are the early QRT Quantum products as well as the current ADD-Powr ElectraClear and Symphony field generators made by Coherence Systems. 
Talk about resonance these gizmos really do a sweet number to my system!
Even they can be tweaked by the crystals, ferrite materials, etc.
bemused
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I own a couple Symphony Pros and several ElectraClears. The change is such that the openness in the sound stage is remarkable. The sound is fuller more rounded. When removed the sound simply collapses as if the air went out of the balloon.
The ElectraClears really clarify the lows to mids and some, whereas the Symphony units open up the mids to the highs. They are modest in manufacture perhaps, but still are attractive enough and worthy of sharing a space in a rack or on a nearby shelf. I've placed some tourmaline and shungite in a baggies near the power cord or on the ElectraClears.
A little goes a long way, as too much might lower noise but kind of emphasize the bass frequencies.




 
bemused
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I spent about $800-850 to procure the above.
It is cumulative in that, yes, more than one adds more realism to the sound. You can hear such detail and even ambiance in the room where the recording was made becomes very apparent.
The recordings sound believable, very authentic, because now the harmonic details have emerged which were always there but were not readily perceivable. I attribute this because of resonance applied by way of low frequency field "tuning", if you will, the audio signal in the system.

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