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

This is where I find being generally disinterested in how this sort of thing works a true bonus.  I already have enough stuff ****ing with my head both professionally and as an unpaid volunteer elected official!  
""But to me these fuses are up there with Shaun Mook Mpingo pucks, very unexplainable things going on, can really **** with your head."

This is where I find being generally disinterested in how this sort of thing works a true bonus. I already have enough stuff ****ing with my head both professionally and as an unpaid volunteer elected official!"

More sympathetic I could not be. Have you tried Dr. Phil?

"I’m trying to think but nothing happens." - Curly

Question, there is a review in Positive Feedback of the SR Red Fuse, a very positive one I might add.  Here's the relevant paragraph for my question.

"The Synergistic Research Reference RED fuse is a horse of a different color. The basic design features proprietary alloy wire and end caps utilizing anti-resonant ceramic bodies. They are treated with 2,000,000 volts of electricity that Synergistic Research calls Quantum Tunneling. In addition, Synergistic Research claims that "a new treatment process applied exclusively to RED fuses realigns the crystal structure of both the burn wire and the end caps for a refinement in high frequency characteristics and improved timbre linearity"."

So, this begs the question, does Synergistic Research claim the Red Fuse is non-directional?  It seems to me that their "new treatment process applied exclusively to RED fuses (that) realigns the crystal structure" would make the RED fuse non directional. If that's true what all this about the letters S and R? Or does that S and R business apply only to the BLACK fuse? Furthermore, and this is really my question, regardless of what SR claims, is the RED fuse really non-directional, or is it directional?  Has anyone actually gotten to the bottom of this?

I have seven SR reds in my system that were placed in three phases, each of which sounded so right, I have not felt a need to flip them.  I would discount directionality on the reds in favor of a long break in period.