Synergistic Red Fuse ...

"It’s judgmental to talk negatively about people who may not think that buying 10 or 15 fuses is worth the sonic improvement and may experience "cognitive dissonance". Some people may have more important things they value than to spend their hard earned on fuses."

Well written post, jetter, and it is true that many important priorities in life take, or should take, priority over audio, fuses or otherwise.

Having gone back through this entire thread a few days ago, I recall no one, no not one "believer", criticizing anyone for not buying these fuses. What I did read ad nauseam was repeated personal attacks by those intent on ridiculing them that experienced success and were sharing their positive results (to be expected on an audio forum, no?), and doing their best to defend against the onslaught of personal attacks.

All but one or two of these attackers had never tried the fuses and were clearly only interested in using ridicule and viciousness to fuel their intentions to spoil the thread for everyone.

The detractors may have been invited or even urged off of the island, but in fact, chose to leave once their motives were evident and their tactics were unsuccessful, behavior typical of malevolent and contemptible bullies in all walks of life.

Best to you jetter and a Happy New Year to you as well,
Dave

dicockrum

Amen !

Best wishes to you dicockrum.

 Through technology I guess size does not matter! What I have said is I believe synergistic research has found a way to have that very thin wire act like a 14 gauge At least that is my thought. 

Bill (Grannyring), as you realize a given length of 14 gauge wire will have much lower resistance than the same length of thin fuse wire. However, the very short length of a fuse wire will result in very low resistance anyway, since the resistance of a conductor is directly proportional to length (as are inductance, capacitance, and many other wire and cable parameters and effects). Consequently the voltage drop across a fuse in an audio component will be a small fraction of a volt, and in many cases a very small fraction of a volt. That can be confirmed via some simple calculations based on the detailed technical specs that are provided for Littelfuse and Bussmann fuses.

It would seem expectable that there will be **some** circumstances under which loss of a small fraction of a volt in a fuse would have audible consequences, although not necessarily in the direction of causing the sonics to be worse. However, as I’ve previously said in this thread what seems unexplainable is that upgrading to a specific fuse would be found to be sonically beneficial with the high degree of consistency that has been reported, among components that are completely different in design, that perform completely different functions, that are used in very different systems, that are powered by AC having very different voltage and noise characteristics, and in DC as well as AC applications. That continues to be a mystery as far as I am concerned.

Best regards,
-- Al

Dave, you are 100% correct in your 12/26 post, the black fuses sounded glorious for the first 10 hours, then yesterday and today at 11 to 20 hours, the system sounded mediocre, comparable to mid-fi solid state from the 80's, tonally thin, undynamic, shallow soundstage, hashy, etc. (both fuse directions).  I cannot listen to this so I am taking Frank and your advise in keeping my big tube amps on until after New Years (4 days continuously).  I hope the fuses break-in sounding at least as good as when I first installed them.

There is a question which I haven't seen answered.  Do large amperage, slo-blo fuses take longer to break in than low amperage fast blow fuses?  Frank suggested it may not matter when I asked him due to the graphene and other dampening compounds which take the same amount of time to break-in.  

Lastly, I would greatly appreciate a company that breaks in their products. For the fuses, I would gladly pay 50% more instead of burning up my tubes waiting for the fuses to be listenable.