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?