Synergistic Red Fuse ...

mapman:

I appreciate that you have tried the RED fuse and hopefully have given it 75 to 100 hrs. to settle in. After this time has passed and if you do not think the sonic improvement is worth a $100.00 please send it back to Oregonpappa.

This is the beauty of the Synergistic Research Black and RED fuses. You get a long evaluation period and if you do not find the change worth the money send them back. Returning a non satisfying purchase is liberating. 

 I do think Geoff should order some Synergistic Black fuses and compare this latest technology to the older generation audio fuses and the use of no fuse at all. He is missing out on some new exciting technology.

nyame:

Thank you for the kind words. I have invested a lot of time evaluating the stock, SR-20, RED and now Black fuses in multiple components and systems. The Black fuses certainly have new technology in place that causes a greater positive change than the previous generations of fuses.
Having all the fuses replaced with Black fuses gives an improvement that is greater than a linear improvement.

To me the real important lesions of this thread are:
1. Try a device in your system that allows you to evaluate it for a significant amount of time and allows you to send it back with no "justification" necessary.
2. Become comfortable with critical listening.
3. Become comfortable sending demo's back that do not meet expectations.
4. Evaluate possible system improvements in some sort of systemic approach.
5. Have fun.
6. Allow others to have different opinions.
7. Be respectful of  other posters.

I hope all will take time to enjoy some music this week that not just makes the foot tap but also enriches the soul.

David Pritchard

Yes thanks to op for lending me the fuse.   It'll go back to him or I will pay him for it if I decide to keep it.   I should get some more listening time in this weekend. 

Dave it would take me a long time to put 75 to a hundred hours of burn in time on the fuse.   I typically get in a few hours a week of listening.   I do not leave the arc tube preamp on when not listening to save life of tubes.    I'll do the best I can though.  We will see.   The book is still open for me.  

Georgelofi wrote,

"Al’s a bit of a fence sitter with things like this.

But to me these fuses are up there with Shaun Mook Mpingo pucks, very unexplainable things going on, can really **** with your head."

The Shun Mook Mpingo discs work by sympathetic resonance. So, it’s actually explainable. It’s not voodoo. It’s not pseudo science. No reason for all the angst and wringing of hands.

From the Shun Mook website:

"There is no real magic about our products. They are all based on simple high school physics - "Sympathetic Resonance". As all elements in this universe will resonate when like pattern energy is generated from another material. Just as in a physics experiment when you excite a metal tuning fork of say the "A" frequency and hold it close to another static "A" tuning fork. The result is that the second tuning fork will also get excited because same frequency energy is transferred through the air to cause the vibration."

Note to Davidpritchard. Re fuses, I thought we already went over this. I have no fuses or straight wires (fuse bypass) in my system. I.e., there is no fuse protection and no fuse protection necessary, and no provision for fuses or fuse holders. Thus the question I had put to you earlier in the thread: "Wouldn’t no fuse be better than any fuse, even a Black fuse?" Does that jog your memory? ;-)

geoff kait
machina dynamica
we do artificial atoms right