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Synergistic Red Fuse ...

I installed a SR RED Quantum fuse in my ARC REF-3 preamp a few days ago, replacing an older high end fuse. Uhh ... for a hundred bucks, this little baby is well worth the cost. There was an immediate improvement upon installation, but now that its broken in (yes, no kidding), its quite remarkable. A tightening of the focus, a more solid image, and most important of all for my tastes, a deeper appreciation for the organic sound of the instruments. Damn! ... cellos sound great! Much improved attack on pianos. More humanistic on vocals. Bowed bass goes down forever. Next move? .... I'm doing the entire system with these fuses. One at a time though just to gauge the improvement in each piece of equipment. The REF-75se comes next. I'll report the results as the progression takes place. Stay tuned ...

Any comments from anyone else who has tried these fuses?
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Tzh21y,
I believe that it is component dependent regarding the length of sufficient burn in time. In my DAC and Line Stage the positive effects were heard fairly early on. On the other hand my amplifiers required much more time to improve with the Black fuses. In all of the components the sound continued to improve up to 150-200 hours. The same very similar situation occurred with my friend's audio system. My belief is that this is truly an individual component by component phenomenon. 
Charles, 
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Mapman wrote,

"I think sgordon was yanking peoples chains but you never know."

Gosh, ya think?
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Geoffkait: " That’s precisely why I have taken the steps to eliminate fuses from my system, actually to also eliminate and bypass the house AC entirely, as well as eliminate power cords, electrical ground, wall outlets, interconnects, transformers, large capacitors, crossover networks, room interactions, things of that nature."

To which aolmrd1241 responded,

"geoff. How do you eliminate all those things short of having an acoustical band/group playing for you...in your home, at your own whim? Please enlighten us."

Let me turn the question around and ask you, how do you think I eliminate all those things? There is only one system I can think of that makes that possible. 

geoff kait
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Unfortunately, I think I know the answer......
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tzh21y640 posts05-04-2016 9:56amYes, I added the days oregonpapa had them in his system until he was really startingbto enjoy them.  Looks like almost 200 hours actually.
I've been rolling fuses since HiFi-Tuning Gold and SQ is usually very good after 10 hours.    If it doesn't sound good after ~25 hours, change direction.   Still no good, either don't like the changes or fuse identify a flaw in the system.   
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