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...
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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I will put a photo of these "tiny magical resonators" in my virtual system section... One Alaska brass cones+ an Herkimer tiny diamond= " tiny magical resonators" The sound will change relating to the stone you will use... You can try without stone the effect is there also...You can mix some with and some without stone, you must experiment location also to gain the optimal effect... But astonishing for peanuts cost.... My prayers to all and music in the heart.... |
Update about Alaskan brass cones: Truly amazing to transform the room acoustic for 10 dollars... The location on walls, speakers and ceiling is of utmost importance, then it is necessary to try some places and listen to the music... Inside each brass cones I put some microscopic Herkimer diamonds... The sound is more earthy and grounded with them.... But it would be necessary to test the brass cones without them the sound will be more airy.... Then for optimum results I will divide the lot with the H.D. and some without.... More to come.... |
Another brass cones updates: I add 7 other cones to the 15 others one... These 7 had only copper tape at the rear to obstruct the hole inside the cones... Fantastic! It is like using a finger to orchestrate the waves acoustic in our room....Choose a symmetrical location for each, walls, ceiling, speakers... Enjoy the new listening room.... Imaging more large and more beautifully acoustical space expanding even behind speakers and around the room.... Why asking more for 10 bucks... Incredibly Hi-Fi cost nothing, if you rightly tweaks...Nothing... Dont trust any marketters... Think....Retro-engineer their product with homemade innovations....Not all people flow with money these days in particular.... Boost your immune system with Joy.... |
Update about Alaskan 3/8 inches cones: golden one are nickel, black one are copper.... I just add 2 on each exterior side of the speakers where there is already 2 on each front side of the speakers... I now have added 34 cones in the room... some with Herkimer Diamond inside for adjusting bass response... It seems that all is going for increased improvement.... more to comes I had 11 others cones to place.... :) |
Update: I now have successfully place 39 copper Alaskan cones 3/8 inch... The sound in near listening at 3 feet of my speakers is more 3-d layered than ever... At regular listening position on my seat at almost 8 feet from the speakers that are on my desk with 5 feet between the center of each other, the room is totally full of the sound with no more relation to the speakers at all, even if the position of the speakers is not symmetrical in relation with the wall... One of my speakers has two of his side inserted a few inches against the wall...I succeed annihilating mainly the distortion of the soundstage.... For 30 bucks these 45 brass Alaskan cones were one of my most precious and powerful tools to modify the acoustical field of my room...I stole the idea from a tweaks company that sell something resembling that 7 for 400 bucks ( I forgot the company name)...Imagine if I had bought them instead of replicating them.... I dont think that acoustic sound waves act better because they are more costly.... :) Some customers of this comnpany even says beware to not use too much of them because of sound degradation.... It seems my cheap cones ignore sound degradation they are more light and I can increase the S.Q. by balancing them with some Herkimer nano diamonds...Inside each there is a hole that I fill with copper tape.... :) Tomorrow or in a few days I will put the 4 last one behind me...And two others will be added to the 2 already glued on my computer screens between the speakers.... To be continued...………... For all those who read this thread my hope are the best for all.... music is a great help in confinement....Stay well and be cautious in these perilous times.... |
Update: I had put 41 Alaskans brass cones... 4 left to be use...The last 2 were put on my computer screen between speakers ( I now have 4 at the 4 corners)... Organ dont lie! With Helmuth Walcha Bach interpretation, never listened to with this wave of tonal details in a more precise imaging and a more vast soundstage I go upper into heaven than the day before... Without asking the permission of my wife for this stupendous cash investment in audio, I bought another set of 15... At the end I will put 60 cones in my room...40 $ all in all.... The next ignorant that call anything "snake oil" will be put to death by me... Because this " ignorabimus" will spread for the X’th times the tale that these speakers, or this dac, or this amplifier, are so good out of the box that is all we need to know nothing else....Marketing ploy are the real snake oil, because selling products without explaining how to embed them is near fraud... But I must be less harsh, because these engineers and vendors dont know themselves most of the times what to do....Read any audio magazine, they dont explain simply the problem....90% of people dont have a clue about the real S.Q. of their actual system because they are even not rightfully embed at all in the mechanical, electrical, and acoustical fields, ...... Why people bought anything without experimenting first with low cost materials is out of me.... But if I remember I was like that myself most part of my audio life. Nobody ever insist on the importance of this, they speak mostly and exclusively about the quality of their favorite electronical components. :) I understand only now (the last 2 years), and I should say like said Christ in his last audio meeting: " Forgive them, they dont know what they do" :) The world I has known ended in my conscious experience the 12 March 2020, but finally I will at least listen music like I never heard before dying.... to be continued |
A new tool for acoustical field of my room: The " Bell of bells"... I just create it ... I use a brass little bell that I attach and hang to a rope in the center of my room... Around this bell I glued 16 little bells (Alaskan brass cones3/8 inch) with half of them with an Herkimer micro diamond glued in them...It is very important to balance half the cones with diamond (half of them)…This balancing compensate the bass frequencies and high frequencies with one another...The result is a better tone accuracy.... This device makes my ears spirals( by some internal Fourier analysis by the brain) able to decode from the feedback waves and reconstruct more easily, in spite of the room intricacies, an optimal tone and imaging ....I am not a scientist tough, I just want to transmit my impressions and communicate my own understanding.... The results (for 10 bucks) are ASTOUNDING.... More accuracy for tone and better imaging... All my solutions cost nothing or are chap and very effective....This one takes the cake.... My goal is top Hi-Fi for the poor....Trust me it is possible.... If you are newcomers, try, experiment, and step by step, create your own heaven with the only master there is: your ears....No money needed....No upgrade advice here.... Start with what you already owned if this is good basic gear.... An amplifier that was top of the world gear in 1978 is even today a good amplifier, mine is.... Same thing for the speakers.... My only contemporary electronic component is a dac…. A very good one (Starting Point Systems Nos tda 1543) I will never upgrade it because of his minimalistic design and cost.... Remember that I can hear very subtle changes in my audio room because all my embeddings (mechanical, electrical and acoustical) are already very controlled...Go with yours step by steps.... I will post a photo in the next days in my "virtual system" section.... My best to you.... |
UPDATE : "Bell of bells" and new nano brass cones... I add twelve 7mm 9/32 inch cones(instead of the 3/8 inch one) On my computer screen between the speakers... And another set of 12 around the upper circumference part of the "Bell of bells" where there is already in the downward part of the circumference the bigger Alaskan cones... These micro bells are so little that I cannot put in some of them my nano Herkimer diamonds... :) But it is not necessary with them like with the Alaskan bigger one...I must confess here that this experiment with this smaller cones bells is an accident.... I dont order them in the first place.... :) It is an happy mishap... But ttey complement perfectly well the regular plain Alaskan cones or the one with the H.D. inside them... Results: The difference in size plays all along the frequencies, more definite and accurate frequencies , especially in the higher frequencies, cleaner, more refined, and also with the bass.... The imaging is better....The piano tone accuracy cannot lie.... :) I am flabbergasted another time, I think I could not add to the last days results, I was dead wrong... Most of us DONT know at all what our Audio system is able to do in the right acoustical space... Reading all these posts about audio on all threads only confirm my experience: Most people dont know first hand that the embeddings of any Audio System is the ONLY key to Hi Fi....Not a more costly dac or amplifier, or even better speakers most of the times...The cost in relation to the improving S.Q. decrease swiftly... Simple cheap homemade solutions on the other hand has a ratio cost/ S.Q. over the roof.... Mostly the acoustical embeddings controls count for around 60 % of the S.Q. 15 % for mechanical resonance controls, and 25 % for electrical grid controls...It is an approximation of my actual increasing experience... The reason is simple: the acoustical field of the room is TOTALLY integrated to our hearing brain, they are ONE and the same sensible system, amplifying the other 2 embeddings field modifications if you try them or any upgrade of electronic components (most of the times unnecessary)… :) |
I just ordered 80 little Herkimer diamonds, smaller than the one I already own, to balance my new micro cones... :) ( around 10 bucks) All is perfect like it is now but something say in me that I will increase the S.Q. with some of the new cones if I add in them H.D. of the require size... Less than 0.1 gram each.... Balancing the effects is one of the KEY to tone accuracy....And I must try because of the improving results when I added some H.D. inside some of the Alaskan regular cones.... Some of these empty little cones screams to me.... :) |
Update: The key is to balance empty cones with the one with Herkimer diamond....And using two different size of cones … The ears decide.... And with a little experiment it is easy to touch the optimal balancing locations between those.... Between my speakers, all around the computer screen is a magical spot...All along the drivers of my 2-way Mission is a magical spot....And With "the Bell of bells" and his 2 layered cones of 2 different size, in the center of my room, the sound has never been so good in all listening positions, nearfield or regular... :) Piano for tonal accuracy listening, or vibraphone+ piano....Orchestra is good for imaging accuracy.....Tabla for dynamics.... The truth of the experiment is that 2 micro H.D. in a micro cones of 7 mm or 9332 inch can completely change the S.Q. in a room.... Why? The only explanation for me is that our ears and the room are one, and the cones are like " steady tags" on a wave flows feedback swirling around the room through which the " Brain Fourier analysis computer" read more easily.... This is only metaphor not science ,I use that metaphor to convey my guiding idea behind my experiments...The grid of cones stabilize for the brain the recognizing process of competing sounds waves between the obstructing distorsion created by the topology of the room accidents... |
I now has proven to myself many times that at low cost I can transform completely the sound in my room.... I made it many times and at each times in a positive increasing way... Why the 4 micro Herkimer diamonds I just added to 4 cones , 2 hours ago, suffice to completely increase tonal accuracy and imaging is so astounding, that I dont really have explanations.... The grid of cones plays like tags on flowing waves yes, but why, for example ,these last four 7 millimeter pieces of rocks (H.D.) inside 4 cones moves so much the S.Q. in an increasing way is beyond me.... :) My grid of cones, 2 size of cones, is composed now of 70 pieces around speakers and walls....Less than half with Herkimer diamonds for balancing effects...Total cost including H.D. is around 45 bucks... |
Musical sound waves bouncing back in a room are more akin to " a language", a temporary living quasi-crystals, than to only a mechanical random phenomena...The sound is like a sensible equation, made visible for the eyes, like the wind on undulating grass... Imagine that if you put some 3/8 inch resonant bowls, on some critical points on the walls of a room, the pattern of the musical sound waves are now less blurred and present to the ears some clearer image where the waves are more clearly perceived, like undulating flags on a flowing river.... I guess Fourier analysis will be useful.... :) Note: some bowl are empty some with an Herkimer diamond like 2 kind of flags on the flowing frequencies river.... But my analogy dont explain how the resonant bowl affect the flowing waves themselves and not only mark up the turbulent flows for the ears.... |
Update: I added some 10 tiny Alaskans bowls or bells 9/32 inch or 7mm on the wall to my right and left... Improvement in timbre and imaging.... 2 are with Herkimer diamond inside for balancing the others... I will install 50 more in few weeks.... :) Ridiculous cost to work on the acoustic and nobody pay attention ... Very strange..... |
Goodness, good man, all the hooters, whistles an bells, I say! 😱 But you mention it does no harm to the original music, yes? 👍 Imparting magic rather, jolly well marvelous, I say! Now, I myself have some fancy oak and dime anti-resonators parked around the place, made up at the time according to some now secret instruction. Could be my system is sounding so, hm,... balanced? 🤔 In any case, kugos for sharing. Krishna, krishna, hare, hare, tingling 🛎 Michélle 🇿🇦 |
But the tape and the tape head are not mechanically coupledA piece of rock on a cable or on the house router affect the sound and they are not electrically coupled either... An audio system is for me a UNITY emerging from the mechanical, electrical, and acoustical embeddings...The ears perceived much S.Q. than a single measure apparatus... This unity is neglected by most and by all measure apparatus indeed, but the ears can detect this unity ....I know that you know already that.... But this thread has silent eyes that listen.... :) |
said the tape and tape head are not mechanically coupled. A rock on a cable Or router box are mechanically coupled, not electrically coupledThe fact that a rock is put near a router cannot be described by the expression"mechanically coupled" for explaining the effect in S.Q. My point is simply that all parts ,mechanical electrical or acoustical are all united to gives the required S.Q. I cannot explain why but this is my living experience.... |
"Golden Plates" UPDATE : I add 4 all along my electrical line: one under the Hard drive bank which have only a little one, 2 on the router of the house(total of 3 now), and finally another bigger one on the electrical main panel of the house(which has many of them) and the results is easy to hear: more refined bass and better timbre and bigger imaging ...I was so enthralled with my Bell of Bells and my other little grid of bells(on speakers, on the walls and on my computer screen) that I had forgot the impactful "golden plates".... :) What a journey! Improvement for peanuts and each month passing the acquired experience that made me think that what is very illusory in Audio experience are the different electronic components upgrading effects versus the underestimated and more powerful effects created by the controls of the 3 embeddings... Today it was the electrical field acted upon with my "golden plates", yesterday it was the little cones or bells + Herkimer diamonds( on 20% of them)... The only embedding I had not modified in the last 2 years is the mechanical resonance dimensions... With my heavy load on speakers +my sorbothane +granite+quartz+bamboo+cork plates... That is already so good I dont add anything more... In the years to come I will add a bed of quartz sand....But for now the heavy organ sound dont even give me any sensation at all with my finger on the desk...Not perfect at all, but good indeed... My dear fellows think before buying anything.....Thinks twice.... |
If I was reading my own thread, like any stranger, for the first times, I will think that the OP of this thread is, if not crazy, certainly right... But how to decide? I will think that I must try by myself some of these controls tweaks about these 3 embeddings... But I speak about myself, a man at the same time gullible, naïve, and sceptic and investigative....Yes I am a paradoxal man, but wait, in the first time it is better to believe, and in the second time, it is better to investigate, then creating some alternative dynamic movement ...Gullible persons only and sceptics only, are all at the end of their journey STATIC dogmatic minds …. Believing and doubting at the same times is acting and experimenting, and is it not also real thinking ? « Why do you think we have 2 cerebral hemispheres? - One for believing and one for doubting i guess? - Right, but know that you are neither one of them yourself... » -Groucho Marx speaking with himself. « I think in spite of my brain...» Groucho Marx |
The "Golden Stick" 6 inches by 1/4 inch wide shungite stick with 3 sides masked with copper tape... I cannot put a "golden plate" near my dac, then I solved the problem with the golden stick....Guess what : improvement in clarity....Cost 15 bucks... I will put a photo in the next days on my "virtual system" page.... I am amazed by these continuous streams of improvement.... Most of us dont know at all their own audio system potential....Before blindly upgrading think about this.... The first and the most fundamental audiophile law: " Dont upgrade before embedding it" |
If I want to resume the lessons of this thread in a few words: The first law, which is the most fundamental audiophile law: " Dont upgrade before embedding it" Second law:" There exist 3 embeddings dimensions" : MECHANICAL(resonance-vibrations), ELECTRICAL (noise level of any links and general noise floor of the house), ACOUSTICAL ( the known passive standard way and the underestimated active ways) Third law: "The more uplifting upgrading effects are most of the time linked to the controls of the embeddings dimensions, except most of the times if you go to a higher rung with a purchase of E.C." Fourth law: " All electronic components (E.C.) roughly are distributed on a 3 rungs scale of ratio quality/price, and the S.Q. ratio decrease or increase in a non linear way with these 3 steps, (low, medium, high or a Gaussian with a non normal distribution if you wish)" Fifth law: " Any upgrade with a new E.C. on the same rung as a past E.C. will result most of the time in a low increase of S.Q. only, compared to a more rightful way to embed the components" Sixth law: " Then dont upgrade before rightly embedding them" then this circle of laws is closed.... All that is only my experience and I tried to communicate it clearly....You can criticize... :) |
UPDATE: The grids of bells (Alaskan cones) I added 2 new group of 5 bells on walls parallell and perpendicular to the speakers, one group horizontally disposed at the level of my ears the other group vertically... They work like some beacons on the flowing waves resulting from the interaction of the direct sound from the speakers and the refracted sound coming from the walls, and give to the ears some fixed points to make easier his Fourier analysis of the sound …. Better imaging at near listening position and at the regular one.... Music go toward the top S.Q. for peanuts.... :) And people everywhere discuss secondary questions, giving no thoughts to the fundamental one : the 3 embeddings, especially the acoustical one..... That is life! |
UPDATE: 6 new "golden plates" on the computer side. What can I say? I added 6 new "golden plates" (shungite+copper tape) 5mm stick, 10centimeters square, I glued them on a cardboard plate and I put the shungite side against the computer... The clarity increase again an another notch then the imaging also.... If I was a business man I would sell that like an audiophile product....But It is free idea coming from a fool, cheap cost... :) I will not say more, I only talk to myself, but it is not so bad if I think about that.... :) |
second UPDATE about the 6 " golden plates" near my computer: The silky smooth velvety impressions around the timbre is addictive...In my 2 positions, nearfield or regular, all is so different and so marvellous I dont know where to seat... :) I order the last 12 shungite plates from my Russian provider....It was the last set for 50 Us dollars..... Peanuts for the results....And I had some other locations to treat more drastically.... My best to all those " ears" here.... |
second UPDATE about the "grids of bells" (Alaskan line cones) I added my last 5 cones to the horizontal line of cones near the ceiling front wall(relative to my sitting position) and I added another 5 to the vertical line on the wall near one of my speakers... Amazing increase in details... I will repeat myself for how they worked: «They work like some beacons on the flowing waves resulting from the interaction of the direct sound from the speakers and the refracted sound coming from the walls, and give to the ears some fixed points to make easier his Fourier analysis of the sound ….» Nothing more needed to be said.... I wait for my last 30 cones from China now slightly bigger.... Viva Hi-Fi for the poor audiophile..... :) |
Another UPDATE about the "grids of bells" When your room treatment and other embeddings are rightfully controlled, the reactivity and feed back of any change is very great indeed... After 2 days of listening after all my last modifications, I was not totally satisfied, I add to 2 of the 10 new bells 2 tiny Herkimer diamonds,3 mm wide, guess what? The effect was incredible and the sound quality , timbre and imaging, was now perfect to my ears.... Think about that mystery: 2 tiny pieces of H.D. of 3 millimeters inserted in 5 millimeters cones bells, and it was like I upgrade my amplifier or if I bought another dac….The reason is because my room is almost near optimal sound rendition and any little modification can degrade or improve the sound greatly.... In a regular room 2 cones on a wall with or without H.D. will not be perceived at all or very little....Dont forget that if you want to emulate my controls methods.... This is a journey not a "one action solve all " methods.... The 3 embeddings controls are interlinked totally.... Any small change in one, at the end gives a spectacular effect…. |
10 new brass cap cone 3/8 inch+ red tourmaline in the center, for my grids of bells Wow! Nothing is perfect even when you think it was! I now have 3 size of bells cones with some Herkimer diamonds in some...The 3 size compensate well one with another ... The bigger last 10 gives me a better timbre and a more wide soundstage without decreasing the dynamic nor the imaging.... Nirvana is free, we must only pay attention..... :) https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00MP2UJ48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 |
My dear friends, trying to improve the clarity, I just create a new powerful tweak "the crystal cannon".... I take a big brass cone cap 3/8 inch and glued in it a stick of lemurian quartz 1 1/2 inch... I add these 4 to the horizontal "grid of bells cones" and to the vertical one, 2 "crystals cannons" on each grids... Dynamic increase and clarity.... Heaven is with me indeed....I will add photos probably tomorrow in my "virtual system" page.... :) If you think that I am a fool, think about that: who is fool, the one who bought a 10,000 dollars dac or amplifier, or me, with a few bucks tweak that has the impactful power of an upgrade? I will leave the answer with you..... I really feel that I can now solve the acoustical problem of my room using many convergent active solutions and not only passive materials on the walls or in the corners.... My best.... |
UPDATE about the "Crystal Cannons" After 2 hours without interruption of the Jordi Savall viol, playing the marvellous Sainte Colombe music, I am amazed by all the details and dynamic that the C.C. (crystals cannons) added to the acoustical field of the room.... All solutions to acoustic controls are way more simple than people think.... Dare to experiment and have fun.... No need for any money.... |
It is amazing how good a very well designed dac is for retrieving and translating details to a good amplifier, and how good is a good one for transmiting that information to the speakers...How good, good speakers are is also surprizing.... I can say that because in my own experience , my dac and amplifier and speakers has amazed me totally in the last weeks... Why? Because when I bought them, these 3 actual components few years ago, I was not so flabbergasted by them like today....The reason is simple, without the controls of their 3 embeddings these 3 E.C. worked way under their own potentials.... All these last acoustical active tweaks controls propelled them to an another level.... The acoustician know much more about Hi-Fi S.Q. than the electronical engineer indeed....This is my motto..... Your ears then know much more than a measuring device.... But only a fool will put aside the experience of the electronic engineer for sure…. But in life there exist priorities....That is my point.... Acoustics of the room is the most important feature of an audio system, especially not only the passive controlling ways, but mostly the much less known active controlling ways.... |
UPDATE: 10 new brass cap cone 3/8 inch distributed in horizontal and a vertical grid of bells cones... I replace all tourmaline stones center with Herkimer diamonds... They are more powerful for clarity.... The red tourmaline push "heavy meat around the bones", but the H.D. gives me more clarity in the higher spectrum... each stones can be used with success relatively to your room and particular audio system.... In general Herkimer diamond even the micro and nano one are very powerful stones.... The most powerful with the shungite and very complementary... |
In the last week I refined the "grid of cones bells" with the "crystal cannons" idea and also by adding Herkimer diamonds of different size to the red tourmaline stones at the center of the big brass cones 3/8 inch that are horizontally located in front of me at my right on the wall and near the ceiling, and also vertically near the right speakers on the wall … These "grid of cones bells" work like some beacons on the flowing waves resulting from the interaction of the direct sound from the speakers and the refracted sound coming from the walls, and give to the ears some fixed points to make easier his Fourier analysis of the sound … The reader must understand that the best improvement come with experiments and listening….The big idea dont come in one fell swoop perfect and without defect....All my ideas are complementing one another and compensating one another.... The end result for example tonight is out of this world in clarity compared to the past days or months... I never listen to a better sound in near listening and in a regular listening position on all counts: bass, higher clear frequencies, details, dynamic, soundstage more wide, imaging more precise.... These improvements are not free and comme with my cumulating experience for example with the properties of the different materials I use... This evening I also create a new idea , a very simple one....I will speak about it later.... Because it is powerful, easy to made, but almost all people here must think that I am crazy.... And this is crazier.... Silence in this thread is a testimony for the total ignorance of their own potential and lack of confidence of people in their own listening power.... I know, I was like that 7 years ago, dreaming to buy costly gear to create Hi-Fi experience, trusting all this marketing lines about audio... Lack of money luckily makes me more creative and at the end not only successful but more happy...I dream sometimes again to buy the costly Berning ZOTL, but like someone who already owns the best car in America dream sometimes to buy a Ferrari....It is no more a frustration, only a curiosity.... :) |
My last experiment is a success but I cannot understand why... :) Sometimes the things I invent makes sense, sometimes not, but never mind if they work.... I linked with 2 thin copper band tape (2 feet long) all 5 big cones3/8 inch in my 2 main grids of cone bells , the one vertically and the one horizontally... Result: an imaging and a clarity way better....Spectacular and absolutely surprizing...I will take a photo in few days and put it in my"virtual system" page This cost me nothing and gives me, in nearfield and regular position, an imaging better than what I ever experienced in the past days ... Hi-Fi cost nothing.....Only listening and acoustical imagination and creativity.... Trust your ears not the ads.... And if your amplifier is good already, trust me, he's better than anything you ever thought of him.... Same about your dac…. Embed it and dont buy anything before that.... |
UPDATE about the "Connected cones bells grids" This is my latest homemade tweaks and I must say very amazing... How do we define "naturalness" in S.Q. ? Naturalness is elusive like many audio sensation, but anyway a real sensation...This sensation gives you the final taste, the taste of the real presence, this taste is a drug with no possible detoxification... This is the ultimate S.Q..... This is an "elusive" quality, because you can think that you have it without having it really in the flesh...The sign and symptom of his actuality is some connection with the music that cannot be severed....The feeling that it cannot be better.... But is it the end? Geoffkait says that we are most of the times always in some base camp all along the road and not on the apex of the mountain....At first I was thinking that he was mocking me, but I now think that it was only clue... :) How in the world connecting with 2 bands of 2 feet copper tape, 2 grids of 5 cones bells, can gives me that quality more than any other controls tweaks? I dont know, perhaps this modification come after a number of other cumulative changes and it reach a threshold...( for example the 7 "golden plates" I added around my computer, one week ago, were a big step but not enough to gives me on their own that "naturalness") Trust your ears and listen, go with them, because no others will transform you for the better except those 2 friends and magical mentors …. |