Synergistic Red Fuse ...

nyame:
Tomorrow evening - Wednesday, I believe the preamp will be in a relaxed state and the music will have the wonderful qualities of better flow, more detail, less fatigue, and more emotional involvement . This will become it's maximum at the 100 to 150 hour mark. Somewhere along the line your brain will quit analysing the changes and just hear more meaningful music.

Well with the Black fuses and Black outlets in place, I am listening to really old Jazz. Vivaldi - 1725!  Yep it is all there in a two CD set  of his trio Sonatas with continuo. Starts with a formal very strict phrase and then slowly but surely tears it up, and puts it back together with at times frantic and vitueostic playing. Is that a very young Jerry Lee Lewis I hear on the harpsichord :)

With the fuses and outlets in place I now can clearly hear the emotion the harpsichord and lute are adding to the three solo instruments. Before it was like listening to Cream with Jack Bruce playing an unplugged electric bass.

Antonio Vivaldi - Trio Sonatas Op. 1: CPO records

Begona Olavide - Salterio: MA Recordings (MA recordings are recorded using only two mikes and only acoustic instruments. Sold direct.
This is Spanish - Moorish music. Both of these two CD have a knockout version of "LA Follia".  Real tear the house down music.

David Pritchard

Hi oblgny,
When I became interested in jazz and listened with new found  attention Oscar Peterson was my main pianist. As time passed and with ever increasing exposure /awareness Monk just pulled me in. Peterson is an enormous talent whom I'll always respect,  Monk just goes straight to my soul.
Charles, 

One thing that has struck me as I added the SR Black fuses and now at about 150 hours with the Black Outlets is that undesirable artifacts that I previously attributed to various forms of physical resonance (speaker, room, component, etc), were more accurately lying in the supply of electrical power to my system.

I mentioned here the other day that I believed adding the Black outlets to my system in-effect gave me a new set of speakers, and it is the absence of these resonant artifacts that makes me feel this way. My current speakers are really quite modest, but in this respect they remind me of my old 180 pound WATT Puppy sixes, or how I imagine such heroically inert speakers the various Magicos are.

With these Black fuses and outlets, transients start and stop on a dime and the bass definition is crazy good. I've been playing albums that I've owned through countless equipment swaps that, while I love them for the performance, I always felt the sonics--and here I'm focusing on the lowest registers--were inherently simply too fat and sloppy to ever be rendered with agility and anything approaching realism.

Here I'd submit one of my all time faves, Holly Cole's "Temptation." With each additional application of SR Black devices, I've gotten a much better impression of what's actually going on in the mix. The extension and depth is as good or better than before, but the texture and nuance of the bass line and drums is so much better delineated now. There are a number of other troublemakers that I have been throwing at the "new" system just to see (and hear) how they are rendered (hello first Fiona Apple CD, hi Alanis Morrisette, what's happening, Bruce Cockburn?)

Anyone else have this sense?

Tonight's listening session was all blues. Jefferson Airplane, Taj Mahal and The Grateful Dead were sounding wonderful and groovy. Couldn't keep my foot still. I don't know who the guitarist for Taj Majhal was, but man, that guy could shred that darned thing.

OP 

It's even worse than I thought with this thread.  The OP is a guy with  78 year old ears claiming to have Xman level hearing and talking about how Ted of Synergistic Research deserves a Nobel Prize.

Do you have any clue how big a fool you're making of yourself posting this stuff every day?

Unfortunately for you, I was at Newport and heard the ridiculous Synergistic presentation.  I was front and center for the A/B test.

Because I studied psychology and know subliminal marketing techniques like NLP, I could write exactly what your used car salesman friend tries to do.  However, it will probably be over your head.

On a primitive level, it should have been easy for anyone to see.  Use great actual electronic devices from companies like Berkeley, Soulution, and Magico...then throw in your tweaks to make it seems like they are somehow the reason for great sound.  Usually he does this with his traveling Macintosh amps and Magico speakers.  This time he was able to partner with a local dealer and get even better gear to make his "tweaks" look good.

Forget theory though and arguing about it.  Let's just cut to the chase.  How many of the shoe box sized passive devices did you buy after hearing the demo?  You claim to be so amazed by the room and attribute it to Synergistic Research, so exactly how many of them did you buy?  I found no one who bought one, but maybe you're the first.

Do you even know physics and realize how big those boxes would have to be to attenuate bass frequencies on a passive basis?  If not, maybe you should have walked right across the hall and listened to the foremost room correction expert speak during one of the educational sessions.

I realize this is falling on deaf ears with you (literally), so I'm done with your nonsense and delusion.  Spend your money however you want and keep living on this thread touting what a great purchase you made everyday.  

As for others who commented, it's flattering that some went through my past posts and found I liked Steve McCormack and then researched where Steve likes certain fuses.

I know Steve and even been to his house to pick up one of my 5 amps I've had from him.  I spoke to him at CES this year and we correspond through email.  I won't speak for him, but he has NEVER recommended Synergistic Reaearch fuses to me EVER.  He has also never mentioned ###hour breakin needed for a fuse. 

If he ever did, I would strongly disagree, so don't try charade tactics to make everything he says attributable to me...especially when he has given ZERO endorsement to the brand we're talking about here.

Since you don't want to break open SR devices, here's a great exercise you can do.  Buy the SR outlet and then buy a Furutech outlet.  You won't even have to break into anything to see the obvious difference in quality.  This will also explain why someone like Steve McCormack might like Furutech fuses, but has never mentioned anything to me about SR.