ORANGE Fuse rejected


So, to bring everyone up to date, my favorite fuse for analog equipment has been Furutech for a long time (I’m really sad that they no longer make the fuse). For digital transport type equipment, the best fuse has been Audiomagic Superfuse (NOT beeswax fuse - in my opinion the beeswax fuses push too hard on the voltage - this is the best I can explain what happens).

So, with the addition of a Farad Super3 linear power supply added for my Pink Faun S/PDIF computer card, I decided to try a Synergistic Orange fuse on this Farad power supply. It has been in the unit for at least 6 weeks constant now (24 hours a day). I recently finalized the burn-in of my last set of digital AES/EBU cables and sat down for critical listening and comparison. While this setup allowed me to differentiate between the digital cables and select which ones sounded the best, there was no cable that really sounded "good". I was really confused at this point because the sound had this harsh edge no matter what digital cable I put in the system.

So, I decided to pull the ORANGE and put back in an Audiomagic Superfuse. Low and behold, all that harshness was gone!! Also, the Audiomagic Superfuse gave me more tones and texture in the bass than the ORANGE fuse did. It sounded much more natural as well (throughout the entire frequency range).

I remember when I first put the ORANGE fuse in, it was like "wow, there’s so much high frequency resolution". But in the end, this was too much and too harsh (like someone turning up the sharpness on the TV way too much!). The ORANGE fuse -might- do well in warm laid back sounding equipment, but I only build my systems with high resolution detailed equipment and the ORANGE is not a good match for this.

Like I said, the Furutech Rhodium has been the best I have used for analog equipment (i.e. preamps / amps). However, it is a bit too slow and colored for digital transports (streamers, transport, bluray players, roku, video processors, etc.). The Audiomagic Superfuse excels in the digital transport area because it is fast and also neutral sounding.

There appears to be another thread here talking about Quantum Science fuses, in which even the Light Blue was an improvement over the Synergistic ORANGE. I may read through that thread and possibly try one of the Light Blue or Yelllow in the future sometime. Maybe it would be a good alternative to Furutech Rhodium.
auxinput
I had a ceramic fuse blow, the system sounded nothing, no sound at all. Put in new $7.90 ceramic fuse and the system made music again. Awesome sound
A fuse:
1: two end caps
2: short piece of fuse wire connecting the two end caps through a glass tube (that’s all she wrote).

To those "non technical" members that are interested, do not listen to fusers, listen to the techs of this industry that design the audio products you have.
AND YOU WON"T SEE THEM ON THREADS LIKE THIS AGREEING WITH THESE FUSERS, EVER!!!
Just clean and tighten your fuse holder and re-new your fuse (if old) with a good quality 50cent Bussman, Littlefuse or similar.
As with "many switch-on surges" they do deteriorate, bend, stretch and get crusty with electrolysis formations on their fusible wire elements before they give out, as these pics show of a fuse wire element ageing over time show. https://ibb.co/9NbTwqK
(even the $$$ boutique ones will age just as much also)
Cheers to those "non fusers" George
Are you prepared to offer it for sale? I’ve yet to ever try a fuse. Might be interesting to give it a shot. Maybe it’s not what you want, but it might work a miracle for a different system. 
@Georgehifi  
   Considering most of the personal/private reviews on fuses say they need burn in time, it might be wise to consider that it is, at this point, a logical extrapolation that the fuse has bent or stretched to a point where an optimal electrical signal has been achieved, thus effecting certain frequencies that are either more noticeable to someone used to the way their own particular system has sounded previous to the upgrade.
I can’t help but think an over the air TV does not have its picture passed through the wall wiring, yet the cathode ray gun was always optimized to take advantage of the 60HZ cycle to deliver 60 fields of non-interlaced video, with each field composed of odd or even lines of resolution and presented for 1/60 of a second so that two fields formed 1 frame and the 30FPS standard for video in the US was adopted by SMPTE  and became the standard. That’s also the reason why a country with 50HZ, use 25FPS as their video standard and fields occupying 1/50 of a second. Persistence of vision is the phenomenon that is taken advantage of to fool the viewer into thinking the odd and even fields were viewed at the same time. Anyhow, it would not be unbelievable to me to think that someone could master fuse building in a way that could manipulate or engineer playback in a different way. And that’s all we’re talking about here, right? A change? Better or worse is subjective.