Synergistic Red Fuse ...

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Al,

I've tried several of the SR products as you know, and every one of them so far has brought a major improvement to my system and increased my musical enjoyment dramatically. Not subtle improvements, mind you ... major.  Now, why in the world would I not want to shout that from the rooftops?  Over enthusiastic? Perhaps in someone else's eyes. If so, that's too bad .. and I certainly don't appreciate being insulted by wolf-garcia and his ilk for that enthusiasm. 

Here's the deal ... Over the past few months, after discovering the SR products that I've installed, my system has gone from really, really good ... to one of the best I've ever heard in over 40 years in the hobby. That includes working for a time in an ultra-high end audio store, to attending and working at many CES shows, attending Stereophile shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles and for the past few years, attending the Newport show for entire weekends.

I've heard systems costing 500k plus... and there are some things I like about mine better, especially in the area of tonal correctness and musicality. That's the level where the SR products have gotten me to. 

Art Dudley makes the point very clearly in the latest edition of Stereophile with his opening line ... "Everything makes a difference. Everything. File that away."  Then he continues with:  "There are two kinds of good sound: good sound and good music sound." 

The SR products have brought my system from "good sound." to "good music sound."  If being enthusiastic about that is a crime ... then color me guilty. 

As always, I appreciate your level headed input Al. 

Stay tuned guys, more SR tweaks to come. :-)

Hi Jeff (Jwm),
Jimmy Giuffre transitioned from "West Coast Cool"style  in the 1950s towards  the early "Free Jazz". Which genre is he playing on your recommended recording? 
Charles, 

Charles just slightly, but I know you will like this. I'll burn you a CDR when I get the record.

Thanks Jeff, I look forward to hearing it.
Charles,

I utterly understand the promotion of suspicious tweaks using this forum if only from a purely business point of view. If a forum exists to hard sell a relatively expensive product with no rational explanation of how it works, using made-up technological terms like "quantum tunneling" (this is a thing that exists, but not in any audio fuse related sense) and claim a preposterous "2,000,000 volt" treatment with, again, no explanation of why or how this is accomplished, you may unsurprisingly (!) get some raised eyebrows. Users claims of subjective "major improvements" to a system by using a component that exists out of the signal path and isn't there to do anything but fail if need be (a fuse) with zero…and I mean zero…actual reasoned technical explanations of why this is, is pretty much unprecedented (except with regards to other "left field" unexplainable techno-fringe tweaks) and requires suspension of rational belief which I, obviously, won't suspend. If a former high end audio salesman and CES show worker makes fantastic claims that appear to be exaggerated  (see almarg's 2nd paragraph above) to other equally (or more) experienced audiophiles, the expected response to any critic of the thing should be to vilify the critic…hey…it's business after all.