The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses


This thread is intended for those who are actually using the new SR Purple Fuses. In my system, they are a significant improvement over the SR Orange fuses. What are your impressions? 

Frank
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I am following up on my post when a first received the Purple fuses many weeks ago. They have burned in nicely, although I think they sound much better right out of the box than past versions.

Everything has gotten even better, with more overall thrust and solidity, yet at the same time, a more liquid and detailed sound with cleaner and more piercing transient attack. Imaging has improved and soundstage size has increased. Let's face it, $200 is no small amount for a fuse.  Though, this has been no small upgrade and has been more subtsantial than many component upgrades that I have made.  Dollar for dollar, euro for euro, these may be the most cost effective upgrade that one can make in a stereo system. I would upgrade to the Purples before spending money on anything else. Very impressive and I find deep solace in the fact that any naysayers will never enjoy this level of performance.  

I received my Purple Fuse on Monday Feb 7th.  It has been playing non stop since.  I noticed my system was more harsh, it was irritating my ears.   Then I remembered I forgot to try it in the other direction.  I did so just now, but I'm not sure I can tell a difference.  Is the difference supposed to be very obvious?   If I ran it the wrong for 72 hours, does that hurt the fuse in any way?

@kclone you did not hurt the fuse but please give it 24 hours, you don’t necessarily even need to play music, just keep the component on which will keep the fuse powered up and listen the next day.

Ted Denney III— Synergistic Research Inc.