Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Charles,  I will be out of town for a few days and hiking this weekend. Its likely to be sometime next week when I hit 60-100 hours.  I do hope I will see additional improvement with more hours, but right out of the box I would have called this a good return on investment.  Still, its not hard to do better for the money with the right tube, or as I said, a good set of feet.  If I realize a similar improvement with each new fuse or pair of fuses, the total improvement would be significant for a $700 investment. That would be money well spent.  We will see.  I really like what the fuse did qualitatively, but I'd like to see a bit more quantitatively.  It is a happy coincidence (no pun intended) that the Franks and Sony both take a pair of the same fuse. I will be surprised if I hear an insufficient improvement to warrant keeping the fuses. 

Frank, your question to Charles is an excellent one.  There is some variability in the reports.  Is the variability attributable to variations in equipment, incoming AC quality, ambient EMI/RFI, listener acuity or preference, fuse to fuse differences, or some combination of all of these variables?  SR does a good thing by offering a generous return policy, which allows us all to reduce this tweak to an experimental question. 

Good morning fellow loon...er, audiophiles.  :-). 

This morning marks about 30 hours on the black fuse.  I hate to go back on what I originally said, but this morning the sound that I had when I first put in the fuse just isn't there. 

It got me thinking just how sensitive components are to power.  Remember, when I put in the fuse, it was about 1am, and I had the best power of the day, I was also listening low, so the pre break-in brightness, actually helped, kinda like creating a loudness curve.  

Anyway, I'm feeling like Oregon papa right now with 30 hours.  The system sounds hifi. Mind you- it still sounds fantastic.  Although, my good friend is coming over tonight for a listening session after I started gushing about the black fuse. Hope I'm not embarrased.  Lol. 

I look forward for the fuse to be done with puberty and being able to get down to business.  There are times when the sound does catch my ear and I look up startled, so that's a good thing. 

^^^ audiolover ...

 Its odd how during the break in procedure for the fuses the system sounds better overall than before the fuse change ... but its that hard edge on everything that's the frustrating part.  So non involving, and like you said .. "hifi like. Its also odd how the fuses come to life in one big expansion of musicality all of a sudden like at around 70 hours or so. My friends who are familiar with my system have heard this for themselves ... to their amazement. Mine too. 

Something I've been curious about are those few who have gotten no results, or negative results from the SR fuses. I'm kinda thinking perhaps they have underestimated the amount of break-in time they allowed for the fuses. 70 to 100 hours is longer than it seems. I could be wrong here, but there must be a reason the vast majority rave about the improvements and so few do not.