Synergistic Red Fuse ...

I have a VAC SigMKIIa pre and SR RED is NOT thin in my system.  My system is very revealing ...

It's all system dependent and personal preferences.  Not everyone is endorsing one fuse ... at least not in this thread.

Here are 2 reviews that mirrors my experience

SR RED

Audio Horizon Fuse

I don't buy the idea one would be satisfied with any aftermarket fuse.  I tried an Audio Magic fuse and the mid was elevated so didn't stay long.  BTW, I might still have it so shoot me a PM and it's yours.  It's 4 amp slo-blo that fits a VAC pre. 

May I just ask--of all the SR Reds and Blacks being placed, how many of you are exceeding stock ratings by a little or a lot?

0 out of 5.

This is often needed
 because the SR offerings are high by .5 amp or because the boutique fuses may blow easier at the stock rating

. Not from my experience

    Another reason is a higher rating sounds better, IME.  I have pushed the ratings in my AC input fuses by an amp or two. The bigger filament adds more to the overall presentation, I believe. 

That's not my understanding how a fuse works.   Bigger fuse doesn't sound better but will take a higher current before it blows.  

I've been using the sr reds in my arc preamp and power amp since they were introduced over a year ago. I was gaga over them, and could not believe the improvement. Since my amp was replaced recently by another arc amp, the fuse rating did not match up to the new one, so now, I will replace the fuse in the new amp with a BLACK one... 

Given, my new amp is still burning in. It only has 175 hours of 600 needed, but I can already tell, after the fact, that my red fuse that was in my old amp was indispensable and was part responsible for how transparent the old amp sounded.

Now even though my new amp is still burning in, the stock fuse in there, I'm sure, is mucking up the sound. There is a bit of nasally congestion in the upper mids, that I am attributing to the break in process, and or stock fuse.  Either way, I'm very much looking forward to getting the stock fuse and going straight to a Black fuse.

 If my mind is blown, then I may just upgrade the digital and analogue fuses in my scd5400es. Right now it has the blue furutech fuses in it.  The preamp has an SR red. Maggie's fuses are bypassed. (Immense improvement from taking the fuse out of the  Maggies) I will never go back to a fused Maggie. I've never had a problem and the transparency and lack of grain is too good to give up.  

Thanks, knghifi---I have been under the impression that the higher amperage fuses have a larger filament and probably sound better--more like a straight wire approach.  


Audiolover--no fuses at all in your Maggies--what model? I was not willing to alter my 3.6Rs from stock.  

1.6.  

Perhaps with a true ribbon like yours I would probably feel the same way. 

Audiolover  ...

 What model ARC amp did you have? Did you replace it with another ARC product?