yes I see what you means....But I dont deny that vibrations absorption plays some role....I doubt that this was the end of the story....The effect is so special...But I will listen to you, I dont know really :)
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 wrapped only one piece, on the headphone cable, the other pieces were inserted freely between the cup and the earpads...The other were freely place on the capacitors of the S.G. and a last one between the cable of the optical convertor and the computer without wrapping only placed without pression ….Even the only one piece wrapped were not wrapped tightly because the material is rigid and bend but not easily and not tightly, it is like an envelope around the cable attached with tape around the connection in the middle of a 10 feet cable ... |
Because they act at distance, on the room or not on the gear but near them....They act on the central electrical panel, this panel vibrate yes but my washer machine vibrate very much but does not effect the sound on the same level than the central electrical panel... Then it is not vibrations the main problem, tough vibrations is a great problem "per se" also for sure and crystals can act to remedy this... |
In the speakers this is the same effect ,like with headphone....Transparency,and refinement of timbre, more accurate tonality of the timbre rendrering… Amazing....Naturalness....Easyness of the flowing sound.... Thanks whostolethebatmobile |
It is already amazing for me that stones of big size and smaller one connected by cable act synergetically on the sound...But now these crystals powder glued on some paper less than an inch, act so powerfully it is doubly amazing for me... The miracle is that they complete each other, the big stones and the powder....I think that the effect of these 2 , the stones grid and the powder is complementary, the stones grid act also on the transparency and the timbre but more on the dynamics, the imaging, from the bass frequencies to upper and the grid trough the speakers act on the global soundscape of the room also....The powder seems to act from the higher frequencies toward the down frequencies and less so in the bass...The powder act less on the soundscape more on the fractal relief of each sound, the plancton of the sound, giving more realistic figure to the sound...The 2, the powder or the grid act like filtering the noise and giving more accuracy in revealing all the music... |
I forget to say that as a consequence of these transparency, the musical timbre of voice or instrument seems now more natural than ever....The lack of transparency has veiled the timbre before I try the crystals tops...Crystals in a macro grid or in microscopics states or powder act magically in an audio system....For me they act like some kind of filtering the electro magnetic field... I am not a scientist for sure...It is only my hunch and experience... I test these crystals tops mainly and mostly for the moment with headphone, because I put them inside and on the headphone cable also...I will report for the speakers tomorrow... |
whostolethebatmobile I must thank you very much indeed... Your crystals tops wrapped around my headphone cable, or inserted in the headphones, or near the optical convertor of my dac between the computer and the convertor it self, or on top of some capacitors of my Shumann Generators, all together gives me a transparency unknown of before and micro details that I never get before trying them...Better imaging also... The effect is at the same times subtle and astounding... The paradox is solved if you think that these micro-crystals tops act on the fractal relief of the higher frequencies for me... Then this is subtle but unmistakable and amazing...My system needed exactly that, more transparency and miraculously the crystals tops gives me that on the first try...I humbly and joyfully thank you , I doubt that I would have gained this same transparency with other means at my disposal now...It seems that micro-crystals are really potent but act on another level than my macro crystals grid...This is another miracles for me and the wonders of music is here now more than ever...My best to you.... |
For sure it is the best option Geoff.... But I dont want the exact same solution than yours... I want speakers also, then the best for me would be to go with a big powered battery generator, connected with my stone grid and treated with stones and crystals...To Hell with the public power grid or to heaven without it... :) By the way I know that this guy is right because the stones has a big impactful noise lowering effect on the electrical panels of the house...Then it will be better without this public electrical grid... |
Now I’m feeling really good and smart that I decided to get off the house AC a few years ago, even though I didn’t expect very much. No more AC ground issues, no AC voltage issues, or RFI/EMI contamination, no more big honking 🦆 🦆 power supplies, no more power cords, no more transformer, no more fuses. No more pencils, no more books. No more teacher’s dirty looks. |
This video will explain to you why it is mandatory to treat your basic electrical house line.... My only upgrade in the future will be a battery powered generator treated itself for sure with my stones and crystals grid,this is not in the video and is my own solution to added to the battery powered generator...This battery generator will be costly for me but this video will gives to you the reason why some measure are necessary …. Most people think about a new amplifier to upgrade their systems or speakers, they own already good gear most of the times but they never listen to them in a relatively noiseless embedding or with the lowest noise floor possible, then they dont know the optimal potential of their actual already good audio system most of the times in most of the case... All the hype and marketing is always about changing some piece of material instead of cleaning the electromagnetic embeddings of the house, the acoustic embeddings of the room, even the resonant vibratory embedding of the house or room...My own miracles in audio experience were gained with some solutions in this 3 directions not so much buying new gear... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywd3lIdbPg8&list=PLnQJF3Qi_4_CGFyisehOpLvbpDhdIe_ld&index=85&t=3251s |
I will illustrate the necessity in working with stones to experiment for the identification of the right spot location for the stones... I received 500 beads of Chrysocolla (Brother stone of malachite) and I put them around 2 of my Shuman Generators... That makes the sound better on some count not of some other count...Then after 24 hours of listening I put them in my basement attached to the central electrical panel... Bingo! That works on all count especially clarity in all frequencies... I receive a 1 pound 1/2 of quartz laced with nephrite stone, very beautiful indeed, and I put them on the central electrical panel, but on some count that compress the sound which surprized me greatly... I then put this stone near 2 Schuman Generator and cabled it, connected to my stones grid with thin cable...Guess what? an audible improvement in the air between instrument, and more presence of each sound... It is by these experiments that I create my audio heaven...These are only the last 2 experiments in audio miracles for a few bucks... 22 bucks posting included for the big quartz+nephrite, 10 bucks for the Chrysocolla beads...The improvement justify the cost... Note: There are no miraculous cured all only stone...Chrysocolla is very potent in audio but no more than shungite, tourmaline, quartz etc... The key is location and linking all them in a grid and powering them with batteries and Schuman Resonators engine for a synergetic filtering of noise action and optimal results... My system is now near the end of possible audible improvement,( I think so but my wife inexplicably negate this fact :) ) then the next experiments will probably be less and less spectacular, but the system is so sensible now to change, that hearing the positive change is always possible tough and fun... Even my taste in music are progressing because ALL files or cd sound better, even the bad one sound better than they usually do...In a good audio system my experience is ALL, absolutely ALL, files sound better than in a less perfect audio system... Those who speaks about some audio system that translate badly bad registered files speaks about an "analytical and too much resolving audio system". For me a TOTL audio system is totally musical and not a microscope engine... I own bad files or cds like many of us, bad studio treatment, bad engineering files, etc but all sounded better than ever in my system now, they are always bad compared to others files but listening them is more pleasurable now than before my experiments ... I remember when some files were so bad I never listen to them even if I liked the music... The truth is often the files are not so bad, but some audio system does not know how to translate them in musical experience, knowing only to fixate on " details without whole" ...I prefer my musically tuned audio system where exist only music but where isolate sounds details exist no more...All is in perfect equilibrium in musical space without accentuating some details in detriment to others... |
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I lived today a real experience revealing how much a Totl speaker, in this case a MMG magnepan, with a good source and Quad amplification with Conrad-Johnson tube pre-amp can be polluted by E.M. fields noise non treated...Perhaps also other kind of noise... I will make an experiment and take some 10 stones simply at the right place et watch the surprize of the owner... I will report here... In few weeks... By the way these MMG Magnepan are a product as such at another level, more sophisticated and better than my top Mission speakers Cyrus 781...But the level of noise was so much, that in their state and installation I prefer way much more my own inferior speakers...This is very instructive of the way and the "How" a top systems in audiophile term can be underused at a level lower than his true potential in a noise polluted environment, unbeknownst to the owner...Even in this state tough the Magnepan are so resolving that they live in a level where no Mission speakers can live, whatsoever my tweaks, and cleaning methods...But when degraded by noise I prefer to this superior Magnepan the natural timbre and imaging way much of my Mission, which are an inferior speakers however... Amazing lesson for me about the power of my tweaks... |
The pyramids are sitting , elevated and not directly on them, on top on the embedded printed horizontal antennas of 2 of the Shuman resonators...On the other 2 the shungite is under them...The S.G. is like an apparatus that transmit the power of the stones, and the cabling between S.G. and the other stones, all connected in a grid,are very powerful, way more than without cables, and without S.G. It is audible in headphone and speakers alike, in nearfield listening or normal listening... Shungite act the best and positively in synergy with other stones mainly on : power supply, wall wart, conditioner, electrical panel of the room and of the house, router, computer...I dont put it on dac,or amplifier, I try on headphone with mixed results also,because it can degrade the sound...But on the different list I just described the effect is amazing and good for me... But I use also other stones with it... It is like each stones compensate with one another their resulting filtering action on E.M. fields of the room and the house...On the Schuman generators shungite act very good but I use other stones to complement his power...If you want to try, it is simple, try with one of the element of the list I just give to you, and try all the place and keep it on the best for you... I have ordered a fifth Schuman generator, I was amazed by the use I discovered for them with stones and cable...It cost me 10 bucks from China(a usb one) I will modify it with stones and connect it on my grid... I am sure that this will be even better than now... My best to you... |
I will add my audio miracle. I use a damping material I bought from Marcof Electronics many years ago. I was told it was made from a mixture of butyl rubber and crushed limestone. It’s still soft after decades. I use it for all types of damping. But applied to the back of horns and their drivers, the results are amazing. That edge people don’t like about horns is completely gone. The problem is I’m almost out. I’m trying to get Ed Martin to dig up the cases of it he thinks are stashed away. |
Like Shungite the use of lava beads in audio is delicate operation... They can easily degrade the sound near some gear...But on the central electrical panel of my house with the shungite they works miracles... I would never have considered such a change after all that happened in the last month in my audio system, in the speakers or headphone alike... The lava beads(4mm) taped on the panel has transformed the sound at another level...The effect is so greatly audible that it is comparable to an upgrade of strong impact...The clarity is now off the old chart, in my headphone or in my speakers...I am happy... I will be more happy if someone benefit from my experiments...My best to all... |
I forget to say 2 things... One week ago I was in the obligation for a reparation to dismantle half of my stones grid, guess what? The sound was audibly degraded after that, before reinstauring the stones in the actual grid... Another important remark: when I installed the Schuman generators, without cabled links to the stones grid, and without stones and crystals on them, under them and near them, the results in the room were an improvement that was audible, BUT nowhere near the improvement I gained with the stones and crystals and the bond with the grid... My best to all... |
During the last 2 hours after headphone use now I had listen in nearfield listening and at normal distance from the speakers... And like with the headphone listening before, in these 2 positions the imaging and clarity is increased much by these addition of only 2 connections today from one of the S.G to the center of a grid of stones located on top of a concrete plate which is itself on top of my amplifier...I had on the amplifier many stones already linked by cables to the rest of the grid... The conclusion of my last 2 posts is right: the stones enhanced by the S.G. are filtering the interactive E.M. fields of the audio system, then lowering the noise level...I dont have any other explanation... One thing is certain no company actually use a grid of stones activated by linked batteries and enhanced by many Schuman generators(S.G.) I remember one day, one year ago a guy, Bybee,reading about him, i bought by curiosity a plate make with a kind of resin and containing unknown crystals that enhance the gear where I put it... The effect was audible yes, but relatively small... That pick my curiosity...It is one of the company with Acoustic Revive, Stein Harmonizer, and some others I forget the name that cause me to go on a search by myself about crystals use in audio...The result is my powered grid... I hope my saying and experiments will be useful to someone...It is free and I dont sell anything...My best to all... |
For example to explain the experience I live through: I listened a marvellous pianistic interpretation of Chopin Nocturnes some days ago by Hans Moravec (the best for me of all)... I listen to it now and the sound is clearly less noisy after this addition of connections... The modification of the air molecules thesis had no way to explain that, I listen with headphones now and some days ago these same nocturnes... And not only the sound is clearer, but the imaging also... By the way Moravec is the most underestimated pianist of the century, with Ervin Nyireghyazi ... |
Today has confirmed my experiments with the multiple Schuman generators used like enhancers apparatus for the stones and crystals grids... I added 2 other connections by cable that had an immediate impact on the soundstage of the headphones... That let me think that the crystals and stones act like some kind of filters among the interlocked electro-magnetic fields of all the gear... The difference with the Stein Harmonizer that act on the air of the room, after the marketing saying so, is that my grid act on the interlocked E.M.fields mostly I think...The S.G. act on the interlocked E.M.fields also connected to this stones grid...The perception that the S.G. act on the air of the room is an illusion... Simply the S.G. modify the relationship between the different frequencies between the interlocked E.M fields of the audio system, modifying then the complex information conveyed toward the speakers... All that is my thinking and I am by far no scientist at all, I just try to understand something most dont understand either...But I dont believe now the explanations of those who explain how the molecules of the air are modify etc etc ...I prefer my hypothesis about interlocked E.M. field filtering by the stones grid and a lowering of the level of noise...I dont negate that something can possibly modify the molecular atmosphere of the room, ionization of the air for example is able to make listening way more musical...But my hypothesis is more potent I thing to understand this amazing phenomenon about the stones grid, because the same effect is audible by my speakers or my headphone at the same level of improvement... Then it is not the air which is the important factor that plays the first role... |
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Simple task for 2 ears: Place 2 chunks of shungite+tourmaline on a conditioner, a power supply or on the central electrical panel and called that an audio geological experiment...That will make your day... Simple to begins with, no need to make a complex grid to gain results audible immediately and an improvement at low cost...Some people will pay thousand of bucks for a less spectacular improvement in cables and other products... Here I dont want to argue with sceptic, it is too simple to take a stone and put it somewhere...I can only say to you what stones will give better results after my own experiment thats all... Like all that is around us, stones are marvellous miracles, unseen by most... By the way I am more a poet and philosopher than a scientist, I only dream about what I cannot afford: my dream musical audio system...I have it now thanks to my reading and experiments...my system with all headphones, speakers,dac,amp, cost me under 1000 bucks but sound like 10,000 bucks...Listening music is my medical treatment and relaxing habit... |
I have a geology background and have actually taught mineralogy and petrology (also paleontology) labs as a university teaching assistant in a past life. So I am not an expert but know something about minerals and their crystal structure. Applications in audio, is not something taught anywhere TTBOMK. It’s mostly hearsay with little to substantiate claims. If you find something that works and can demonstrate and document it quantifying how and why, that would be something. Good luck! |
I simply dont like upsetting anybody, and GK is funny and interesting that’s all...Now back to the regular course... It is looking complex and this is very simple and trust me astounding...But I have to figure all that myself, nobody said to me what to do...I was only inspire by advertisement by top audiophile company that present products with crystals without giving any details at all...Patent secrecy for sure...But the idea at the basis of that is simple and trials and errors was the way... My stones grid included these S.G. and are connected to them but the grid included many stones all around my room and gear...Even in the basement where I clean the central electrical panel... The final result revealed a musical experience without comparison with the same gear I own in the same room but without any stones grid... In audio what you buy is LESS important than what you make of it... No company will ever said that to you ...They want you to pay for a new costly piece of audio that’s all, and this new piece need no cleaning, no treatment, nothing, this new piece they said is perfect without anything to add... : ) My experience is totally contrary to these customer marketing business, what you will buy, if it is already good, nevermind the price, will IMPROVE greatly ONLY if you clean and treat all the electrical grid, the acoustic grid, and controls vibrations, and treat the room etc … My actual gear is TOTL for cheap cost... |
No idea how this works but very cool. A picture is worth a thousand words. I think you’ve scared off GK who seems to be mostly just bluster, comedy and insults when it comes to actually offering any evidence that he he is not just lazily about all talk and callously selling other peoples junk for a premium to make a few bucks. |
Here 2 photos of my S.G. modified and cabled to the grid of stones: These 2 are USB powered + 2 shungite pyramids lifted on top of them without touching the embedded antennas of the S.G. the stones are Black Tourmaline+ Herkimer Diamond and Kambaba Jasper +Herkimer https://imgur.com/gg3Fn5w These 2 are with power supplies and you can see one of my Helmholtz resonator in the background, there is a shungite tile under these 2 S.G. but invisible on this photo, the stones are Black Tourmaline, Madagascar Agate, and Green Nephrite and many Herkimer on top of stones : https://imgur.com/yZ4KMgH |
This one is big not costly... https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Healing-Shungite-Unpolished-Tile-150x100x10-mm-RUSSIA-345-gr-0-76-lb/323580470269?hash=item4b56e623fd:g:cnkAAOSwDaBb5~fb The exact size and weigh does not are big factors... In fact I already have 4 tiles there, the only factor important is buy genuine shungite the less costly possible, then the biggest for the least price...Shungite club is a good provider of the genuine product...Dont buy from USA or others country... Only Russia owns shungite minerals... The rule to apply for shungite use: this minerals can degrade sound if you place it on top of gear or too close of a dac or an amplifier... The best place are near electro-magnetic power source like the wall wart, the electrical panel, the power strip. the conditioner, the power supply, the computer and his router, the router is great place for shungite...There it will improve sound... |
They are not expensive if still around and worth finding. I also have multiple Sennheiser phones that I use a Chord Mojo portable DAC/amp with. The little jeweled AT phones are very close...no special amp/dac needed. Then I also have grado sr80e phones that I believe GK also owns and tweaks to sound their best. Not bad alone but they do benefit used with the Chord Mojo. |
Wow they are more than beautiful...They need almost no power this is interesting indeed...Thanks very much Mapman I will read about them with interest....I dont own quality headphone that I would use with a micro dac/amp... This seems promising.... Thanks from my heart for your information...The impedance is 100 Ohms tough... https://www.amazon.com/Technica-ATH-FW33-FashionFidelity-BIJOUÉ-Headphones/dp/B008AT6DMC |
Mahgister here is something of a headphone miracle you might appreciate. I have a pair of these Audio Technica on-ear headphones. https://www.google.com/search?q=athfw33&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS603US603&hl=en-US&prmd=mvin&... I cannot believe how good sounding they are even off a standard iphone dongle. How do they do it? Everything is crystal clear and the bass is extended and clean despite the small size. No headphone amp needed. I’m betting the unique crystal like faceted form of the enclosures help. |
I listen the cd named "Tabla Tarang" with these headphone Fostex, NEVER I have pleasure to listen to this cd before because none of my headphone were able to communicate in a speaker-like manner the encircling subtle plays of the hands of the master on these I think 12 tablas adjusted for special tonalities around him...OUff And more than that it is imperative that an headphone must gives the natural timbre of the tablas if not all sound the same and artificial, and the notes are not circling you but linearly before you... With my Fostex in my grid the notes are circling like in a danse around me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qGt4VTZbdI |