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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I trust Charles' ears and may try these fuses, but this company's quantum chips simply have to be a placebo (and make me distrust them more generally).  They make big ones to slap on the sides of your speaker cabinets for god's sake.  Only $130 a chip to make your speakers look horrible.  Standard arguments aside, there simply isn't a mechanism by which these speaker chips could work, besides the extremely well-established psychological one. 
^^^ That's what they used to say about cables, speaker spikes and removable power cords.

I assume, Charles, that you've tried all the sizes of WA chips in your own system before making your judgement though, right? 

Don't get me wrong here, Charles. I understand your skepticism. I bought the fuses and chips with full knowledge of the distributor's money back guarantee. 

I'm not sending them back. 
One of the best places for a WA Cable Chip after much experimentation is wrapped around the house AC wire for the audio circuit as it comes into the circuit breaker on the breaker box. I also am a big fan of the WA Inductor Chip adjacent to the transducer of each headphone.
Hi Oregonpapa, I enjoyed reading your impressions of the quantum chips with the sr-red's fuses,  we'll said,  very exciting indeed,  also,  I like this thread,  thankyou 
Hi Charles1dad,  thankyou for your reply,  however,  hope no one here trips on what I'm about to tell you,  remember when I said I tested high end receptacle's?, OK,  we'll the outlet's  yielded some interesting facts! , the stainless non magnetic screw's that come with the furutech wall frames are terrible sounding,  now, since you believe in magnetism,  like your cable's,  I found that zinc highly magnetized screw's that are common place used in most standard house wiring works to very, very,  good effect,  but you have to go to your electrical supply house and get bigger diameter, and longer  length for the outlet wall frame and receptacle it's self to screw in the electrical gain box, btw, thick fiber glass gain boxes sound best,  I done all this testing December 2014 for a couple of months,  you are the first I have ever told this to on audiogon thread that I can remember,  hope this helps,  it gave me a good noticeable improvement,  cheers.