Fuses that matter.

David,

I have an sa11-s1 and have considered a power fuse upgrade but can not see any external fuse tray or slot. Could you please advise how I can access this fuse tray you spoke of. Thanks.

John

Wow. 512 posts and counting and this is one of several "fuse" threads on a'gon. I installed my Hifi Supreme's in everything more than a year ago and have never looked back. Having too much fun to worry whether it's crazy. Maybe some day I'll get off my lazy butt and try the Quantum chips or the SR's.

Faint heart n'e'r won fair maiden. Besides, replacing a fuse is not rocket science.
Geoffkait (Answers | This Thread)

I have an sa11-s1 and have considered a power fuse upgrade but can not see any external fuse tray or slot. Could you please advise how I can access this fuse tray you spoke of. Thanks.

John
Nanotweeter (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

The above kinda speaks for itself. Incorrect information given for one or more style units.

Nanotweeter, I don't know if David above has a different model than yours, but, the ones I see pictured on the internet has at least five to six fuses inside it. None on the back of the unit I see pictured. I could be in error, and thinking I'm looking at the correct unit, and the pictures may be wrong.

If your going to risk changing them, be careful. You have to make sure each one is the correct type, if not you may be putting it, and yourself at risk.

Secondly, these PC mounted type of holders can easily break lose, and also damage the PC board traces. The thought of someone other than an experienced tech doing this, changes my thoughts about buying some used gear even more now.

If it wasn't broke when they made it, why try to experiment with it. Didn't the engineers of this $3500/$3000 player have the customers interest in mind? I would hope they did.

The engineers had profit in mind, and so does the designer,manufacturer,dealer, all down the line.

Using a cheap fuse is cheap.
Designing a protection circuit without a fuse isn't.

Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings.

Cheap fuses work, they do what they are supposed to do, unless of course they are defective.

Consider how many cheap fuses have been made over the years and how many of those are still functioning perfectly in whatever gear they came in.

Why would an upscale fuse,with claims of better materials and construction be more suspect to fail than the mass produced fuses?
I don't see the logic.

Why, this could lead one to conclude that amplifiers built in small numbers by artisans would be more susceptible to breakdown and repair than the amps produced for the masses made in large numbers by large corporations.

I had a nice DecWare SET amp that never let me down and sounded quite a bit better than my Yamaha reciever.
Which is as it should be isn't it?

So why would a designer fuse be anything but better?

And ,if anyone is doubting that the HiFi Supremes won't protect your gear, you would be wrong.
They'll pop and protect your gear if you place the wrong fuse in the wrong place.
Lesson learned.

I also had Hi-Fi Supreme fuses in all of my components until I tried the Synergistic SR fuses and the difference was quite startling. Much cleaner sound with better placement of images, deeper/wider soundstage, more decay and blacker background.

The difference is obvious from the start...