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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?
oregonpapa
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lak
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I’m happy to report that I received several of the SR Black fuses on Friday.
I didn’t have time to install any of them until this morning.
In my main system I replaced the SR Red fuse in my Yamamoto Dac with an SR Black fuse and due to my impatience I replaced the stock fuse in my Allnic L-3000 preamp with the SR Black fuse.
I immediately heard deeper bass, a more articulate and natural sound of music along with improved imaging and a wider, deeper sound stage.
In my main system I use a loom of High Fidelity products (interconnects, digital cable, speaker cables and power cords).

I look forward to the replacement of standard fuses with the SR Black in my second system, in the following: (Yamamoto Dac and Allnic T-1500 Integrated 300B amp).
I’ll get to that in a day or so. I'm anxiously waiting to hear what the break in period will do for improvement.

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oregonpapa OP
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lak ...

As the old sage said: "You ain't heard nuttin' yet.  :-)
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lak
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oregonpapa; I'm looking forward to it!
I already hear great improvement this morning in my main system.
I added the SR Black Fuses last night to my Yamamoto Dac and Allnic T-1500 Integrated 300B amp in my secondary system and could not believe the improvement as soon as I powered the system up. And it sounded darn good before I ever added the SR Black Fuses!
This is one of those tweeks one has to hear for themselves to believe!
fluffers
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guys- My amps take a 3.2 amp 250 volt slow blow- But they are the larger size fuse- Seems all the 250V are the smaller size- Can I use the 500 Volt fuse even though my current fuse is a 250 volt??- thanks- Do they make a larger size 250 volt- 
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almarg
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Fluffers, the 500 volt rating of the large size fuse is not an issue, when used in place of a fuse having a lower voltage rating. See the first paragraph of my post at the bottom of page 19 of this thread, and follow-up posts in the top half of page 20.

Regards,
-- Al
 
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