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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?
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Oh my gawd!  I just spewed my morning coffee all over my computer screen. You guys are too funny.  "No Spaceman, its the new weed?"  *lol*  That explains a LOT. 

Charles ... Yes, I have Shelly Manne's entire Blackhawk series on Vinyl. These are on the Contemporary label.  

Contemporary recorded a ton of West Coast jazz and most of these recordings are very well done. I'd recommend them to anyone interested in great jazz and sound. The guys at Contemporary really cared about their products. 

A CD to watch for is this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Little-Band-Big-Jazz-New-CD-/381650944858?hash=item58dc2b435a:g:L6UAAOSwagdX...

I have it on both vinyl and CD. The CD is excellent. Great sound and performance. It will have your head bobbin' and your toe tappin.'

It originally came out on the Crown label. As some record collectors know, Crown was a budget label. About one in ten of Crown's records sounded good. Most sounded terrible. A few sounded great. This is one of the great ones. 

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Frank,
Contemporary is one of my favorite historic/classic  jazz labels along with Riverside, Prestige and Columbia Records. They all  had terrific musicians and consistently good sound quality. 
Charles, 

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charles1 dad:

That is a nice list of excellent sounding record labels. It is fascinating that some labels and their teams can produce great sounds are so many others just can't get it.

This weekend experimented wiht  the 300B amp's sound. 

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I got a big jump in sound quality by adding three Synergistic Research ECT's (  Electronic Circuit Transducers )  to the amp. One ECT near the rectifier tube, one near the driver tube, and one near the volume control. Other locations that had no effect or a negative effect  were near the output tubes, near the transformers, near the power cord inlet, and on  the sides of the amp.

With the ECT's in the right location, the soundstage greatly improved and the harmonics were much more musical. I have had a similar improvement using ECT's with the Art Audio PX-25 amp.

I think this is  a fun and worthwhile experiment with a product that has a 30 day return policy.

David Pritchard

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Wig,

If you are stil on this thread.
Do you find it in a way more techical sounding, spread out the sounds within the stage clearly and evenly (which i found is the strongest point), doesnt really have shortcomings in any frequency range? Over the other fuse or fuses you used.

I feel that blacks and outlets does well technically overall, does sound organic in a neutral way that is , having less colours to the music.

These colours, not coloured sounding, may addto musial njoyment you are experiencing even if the are other areas which may fall short of the black fuse?
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