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?
128x128oregonpapa

Mopman wrote,

"Geoff that made me laugh. Youn are a funny guy. Kinda like gene Hackman playing lex Luther in those old Superman movies. "

Mopman, you're funny, too but more along the lines of the other character in the old Superman movies whose initials were LL. 

;-)


Geoff Kait

Machina Dynamica

I utterly disagree with the assertion that my last post wasn't funny…there were plenty of funny parts in it. At least 3.

I do enjoy this entire thread as a prime example of Audio Mysticism, and can further describe what I think is happening here (other than the relentless hard sell promotion by some, which I find unexplainable unless it's a scam promoted by SR). One reads about a supposed affordable tweak (although bathed in nonsense like "quantum tunneling" and fuse direction "absolutes"…which are absolute silliness, and using a "cost benefit" claim that ignores the "20 times more expensive than what you're using" part), sends for the tweak, and listens patiently for 70 hours (I fixed my timing error) of break in (!) after which one decides if the damn thing is in the right direction. If you don't hear the immense improvement claimed by the improvement claimers, there's something wrong with you…you lack listening skills along with your hundred and twenty bucks, so hey…you really want to cop the buzz…you want a miracle and maybe less hair loss…you want IN. Well Fundamentalist Fuse True Believers, you're in…
Regarding quantum tunneling, as I pointed out earlier in the thread there is such a phenomenon (see this Wikipedia writeup).  However, my understanding is that it has nothing to do with treating a material "with 2,000,000 volts of electricity in a process we [SR] call Quantum Tunneling."  Or with application of any other especially high voltage.

Regards,
-- Al
 
Almarg wrote,

"Regarding quantum tunneling, as I pointed out earlier in the thread there is such a phenomenon (see this Wikipedia writeup). However, my understanding is that it has nothing to do with treating a material "with 2,000,000 volts of electricity in a process we [SR] call Quantum Tunneling." Or with application of any other especially high voltage."

Of course it’s not really Quantum Tunneling. Geez. The beauty of being a manufacturer is you can call your methods or products anything you want to. It’s called poetic license or whatever.  I have to say quantum tunneling certainly sounds a lot better than Super Zapping. Hey, I call one of my products Dark Matter. Is it really dark matter? Well, uh, no. I call another one of my products a Particle Accelerator. Is it a real particle accelerator like a Supercollider or the one at CERN? No, but it is actually a particle accelerator. So I get partial credit.

No man is an island. He’s a peninsula.


wolf-garcia ...

You remind me of my son-in-law who wouldn't try smoked oysters because "he just knew they tasted awful." He denied himself of the pleasurable taste of smoked oysters for years. In fact, on one occasion he actually accused me of being on the payroll of an oyster processing plant.

One summer afternoon at a family get-together, and a number of beers later, I finally coaxed him to try "just one little oyster on a cracker."  He's been a believer in smoked oysters ever since.  

Needfreestuff ...

At around 70 hours things will really start to open up and tickle your ear drums. Hang in there ...