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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As I understand things around here, this is a thread devoted to sharing our PERSONAL experiences,initially with the Synergistic Research Red fuses and subsequently expanded to include other fuses as well as other AC power products.

It follows then, if you have no PERSONAL experience with any of these products or product categories then you are just wasting time--yours (which you seem not to value), and that of the many folks who have participated in this thread sharing their PERSONAL experiences in good faith. A few posters here actually tried these products and found that they could perceive no sonic changes, or no changes for the better. I totally respect them and their views and I appreciate their contributions to this thread.

But seriously, if your scientific understanding of AC power and its interaction with audio power supplies and other devices on a circuit is not post-doc PhD with extensive personal applied experience in these areas, I am really not interested in your theories about why nothing in the power supply chain could possibly influence my perception of a re-created musical performance in my home.

I use and enjoy these products, and my non-audiophile friends (who have no idea what I’ve been messing with) are generally capable--unprompted--of hearing and noting differences in the sound of my system over time.

So, to put it bluntly, if you have no personal experience with these products, feel free to lurk, or to sincerely ask questions, but otherwise, please save yourself the agita and the wasted keystrokes, and let the rest of us get on with our little hobby....
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On a happier note, I am chilling to Olu Dara's album "Neighborhoods." Very highly recommended for performance and sonics, along with his late-nineties debut "In the World: From Natchez to New York."

Very cool. Check 'em out some time...
A few posters here actually tried these products and found that they could perceive no sonic changes, or no changes for the better. I totally respect them and their views and I appreciate their contributions to this thread.
And this backs what the technical experienced here have been saying all along.

So, to put it bluntly, if you have no personal experience with these products, feel free to lurk, or to sincerely ask questions, but otherwise, please save yourself the agita and the wasted keystrokes, and let the rest of us get on with our little hobby....
No wasted keystrokes when trying to protect/educate the gullible and their hard earned cash on the voodoo speak that AC fuses have directional sound differences. And unless your a forum cop, I wouldn’t tell the technical here what they can/can’t post when trying to protect the gullible from voodoo.

Cheers George