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The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses ....

New SR BLUE fuse thread ...

I’ve replaced all 5 of the SR BLACK fuses in my system with the new SR BLUE fuses. Cold, out of the box, the BLUE fuses stomped the fully broken-in SR BLACKS in a big way. As good as the SR BLACK fuses were/are, especially in comparison with the SR RED fuses, SR has found another break-through in fuses.

1. Musicality ... The system is totally seamless at this point. Its as if there is no system in the room, only a wall to wall, front to back and floor to ceiling music presentation with true to life tonality from the various instruments.

2. Extension ... I’ve seemed to gain about an octave in low bass response. This has the effect of putting more meat on the bones of the instruments. Highs are very extended, breathing new life into my magic percussion recordings. Vibes, chimes, bells, and triangles positioned in the rear of the orchestra all have improved. I’ve experienced no roll-off of the highs what so ever with the new BLUE fuses. Just a more relaxed natural presentation.

3. Dynamics ... This is a huge improvement over the BLACK fuses. Piano and vibes fans ... this is fantastic.

I have a Japanese audiophile CD of Flamenco music ... the foot stomps on the stage, the hand clapping and the castanets are present like never before. Want to hear natural sounding castanets? Get the BLUE fuses.

4. Mid range ... Ha! Put on your favorite Ben Webster album ... and a pair of adult diapers. Play Chris Connor singing "All About Ronnie," its to die for.

Quick .... someone here HAS to buy this double album. Its a bargain at this price. Audiophile sound, excellent performance by the one and only Chris Connor. Yes, its mono ... but so what? Its so good you won’t miss the stereo effects. If you’re the lucky person who scores this album, please post your results here.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRASONIC-CLEAN-The-Finest-Of-CHRIS-CONNOR-Bethlehem-Jazz-1975-NM-UNPLAYED-...

Overall impressions:

Where the RED fuses took about 20 hours to sound their best, and the BLACK fuses took upwards of 200 hours of total break-in, the BLUE fuses sounded really good right out of the box ... and that’s without doing anything about proper directional positioning. Not that the BLUE fuses don’t need breaking in, they do. The improvement continues through week three. Its a gradual break-in thing where each listening session is better than the last.

Everything I described above continues to break new ground in my system as the fuses continue breaking in. Quite honestly, I find it difficult to tear myself away from the system in order to get things done. Its truly been transformed into a magical music machine. With the expenditure of $150.00 and a 30 day return policy there’s really nothing to lose. In my system, its like upgrading to a better pre amp, amp, CD player or phono stage. Highly recommended.

Kudos to Ted Denney and the entire staff at SR. Amazing stuff, guys. :-)

Frank

PS: If you try the SR BLUE fuses, please post your results here. Seems the naysayers, the Debbie Downers and Negative Nellie’s have hijacked the original RED fuse thread. A pox on their houses and their Pioneer receivers.

Frank



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jafreeman
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Prof, thanks for the summary of the double-blind peanut/placebo desensitization study over six months. One possible confounding flaw, though: Unless all subjects from both groups were carefully diet-controlled over six months, those taking the placebo AND reporting allergic reactions could actually have been unintentionally eating trace amounts of peanut product in their diets! Of course, this is the reason why a severe peanut allergy is so dangerous---so many processed foods also contain peanut residue that cannot always be avoided at the point of eating something, even though parents take great care to screen and to avoid such accidents with their children.  The study does show with a high confidence level the value of the treatment, though.  
prof
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nonoise,

That’s pretty much a typical reaction from folks who just don’t want to admit their own perceptions could be in error.

And, no, the typical tossing of the word "religious" doesn’t stick. It’s an anti-dogmatic stance where we simply acknowledge the truth of our own fallibility, and are willing to challenge our own beliefs and perceptions.
It is dogmatic and hubristic to think one’s own perception is the Ultimate Arbiter of reality, operating above all the errors to which we know human perception and judgement is susceptible.

Do you think it "too rigid" that I, for instance, wanted to actually try to discover whether my new music server was the source of my perception? And to do so in a way I knew would reduce the type of variables I wanted to rule out? What do you have against seeking such knowledge?

That is a really weird stance to take.

Just. Try. A. Fuse.


Why?

Why would I do that unless the claim that a fuse changes the sound first seems plausible and has some sound technical basis and evidence behind it? And if the jury seems to be out on that, and I’ve seen EEs comment that it’s an implausible claim. And if the claim is being demonstrated by the same way every other implausible audiophile tweak is demonstrated - audiophiles simply claiming "I heard a difference!" - why would I think THIS tweak is different?

I’m not declaring fuses can’t make an audible difference. Only that the type of evidence for this claim is far too wanting to compel me to spend time or money on it.
prof
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@clearthink,

"It’s not LIKE religion it IS actually an actual religion ..."


You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. It’s one thing to lazily toss around the term "religion" as a slag, it’s another to actually produce an argument that what folks like me propose is akin to religion.

I am espousing simple empirical principles of inquiry. How exactly does a stance that asks us to recognize our own fallibility, asks us to be willing to scrutinize cherished beliefs or assumptions for error, and seek ways to weed out error for greater reliability of results....and to always be ready to have our beliefs modified or changed by good evidence...amount to anything like the dogma of religions?

It doesn’t. It’s the opposite, in fact.  It's an anti-dogmatic stance.  I'd happily change my mind about AC cables or whatever if there was good evidence they alter the sound of a system.  Pure subjectivist-type audiophiles on the other hand, seem unwilling to admit their own fallibility - "you can't tell ME what I heard or didn't hear!."  All the evidence of how they could be fooling themselves is waved off as not relevant to their own inviolable perceptual tools.  It's a dogma about the their own subjectivity.

You can throw around words all you like in an emotional reaction, but actually producing an argument to take your claims seriously is another thing.


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geoffkait
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Sanity check. The score is 75,000 positive to 100 (tops) negative. Are all 75,000 delusional? Is this just about the biggest conspiracy ever?! This is even better than UFOs! 👽 I’m afraid what we have here are not real skeptics. These are obviously just some guys out to have some fun and trying to think up a bunch of crazy stuff that sounds cool. Also obvious, they primary reason they won’t ever roll their sleeves up and investigate things like fuses is they wouldn’t want to face the music and admit they were wrong. Not in public. 
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georgehifi
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What gets me is these totally non technical  "fusers" think they know more about what make an amp or dac work better or worse than the electronic engineers that designed and built the equipment they are using. And that these $150 fuses have some magical power that can't be measured. 
It's like them saying to the gullible potential fuse purchasers here, that they know better than the likes of Nelson Pass ect ect who designed the equipment.

Cheers George
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