There are none SO blind as those that will not SEE.
There none so blinded with their own voodoo, that "they can’t see the forest through the trees".
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Cheers George
Hi-Fi Tunig Fuses & Parasound A21
Hi,
Have any Parasound A21 owners replaced the stock fuses with the Hi-Fi Tuning fuses in their amp? I understand that there are four 8A slow blow internal fuses and one 12A slow blow fuse on the rear panel. This is a awesome amp as-is. Just my curiosity.
Please share your experiences.
-Thanks,
Have any Parasound A21 owners replaced the stock fuses with the Hi-Fi Tuning fuses in their amp? I understand that there are four 8A slow blow internal fuses and one 12A slow blow fuse on the rear panel. This is a awesome amp as-is. Just my curiosity.
Please share your experiences.
-Thanks,
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relating to this quote: "Otherwise, do what actual music and sound professionals and amp designers do…ignore the nonsense of silly and fraudulently marketed psuedo tweaks." I would like to say that amp designers have a completely different set of requirements to work against. They are working against limitations on cost and manufacturing processes. They need to weigh the availability of individual components when the equipment is actually manufactured or assembled. The idea that a Hi-Fi Tuning fuse can actually improve the sound is valid, but when it comes time to have these amps/equipment built on time and on demand so that they can ship to their distributors/retailers, the available of individual components becomes critical. What happens when a set of fuses are not available for weeks? A company like Bryston/Classe is not going to be able to wait to ship 20-50 units. Also, cost of every single component adds up and the company's goal is always to use the cheapest components that allow them to meet a certain threshold (difference between a $4 Littlefuse and a $60 Hi-Fi Tuning becomes significant). However, we also have companies like Audio Note or Audio Research who do focus on actual individual components (even down to what kind of carbon resistors are used or the type of solder). However, their manufacturing output is a lot less and item cost is a lot higher. Music and sound professionals have an entirely different set of responsibilities and don’t have time to be critical about every single piece of equipment. I’m sure recording studios have something like 2-5 million dollars of equipment (tons of devices - racks and racks of equipment) and need all their time to focus on recording/mixing/effects/etc. They need equipment that is good enough to meet the bottom line, but they are not going to spend another 1-2 million and hours of time when "off the shelf" equipment is going to be decent enough to produce their product. In their industry, time is money. Unless your Cookie Morenco, who has tremendous focus on how individual components and wiring affect the sound. However, that is a very small niche market. |
Al, are you speaking with the lawyer side of your brain or your EE side? Setting aside the Quantum Tunneling issue for the moment, since that’s kind of a red herring for this discussion because Synergistic Research use Quantum Twerking on many of its products - it’s not unique to its fuses. No need to get all worked up over the name of their process in any case. So, lets summarize what we know about aftermarket fuses and what it is about them that is responsible for better SQ compared to a fuse from Joe Blow. Get it, Joe Blow? 1. The purity of the wire inside the fuse is superior, e.g., high purity copper or high purity silver. 2. The end caps are better conductors than Joe Blow’s, either pure copper, pure silver or gold plated copper. 3. Fuses incorporate vibration control, which can be substituting a ceramic body for glass, use of fluid inside the fuse body as damper, and or beeswax a la Audio Magic. 4. Some Aftermarket fuses address RFI/EMI using absorption materials either inside the fuse as with Audio Magic or outside the fuse body as with Synergistic Research (graphene). 5. Wire directionality plays a role in the SQ, too. As it would even with Joe Blow’s fuse, but it would be easier to hear the difference in direction with aftermarket fuses since they are are superior to begin with, you know in terms of conductivity, noise and distortion. |
georgelobrow 1,827 posts 11-19-2016 2:33pm Geoffkait:There are none SO blind as those that will not SEE. george pondered this, thought for a moment, then pulled the trigger, "There none so blinded with their own voodoo, that "they can’t see the forest through the trees"." http://www.machinadynamica.com/ Cheers George Whoa! Hey! George, if you keep this up I'm going to have to consider promoting you to associate shill. |
almarg Geoff, note that he said "reasonable explanations." Yes, I know. Please note that the explanations I listed are quite reasonable, at least to a reasonable person. In fact, I don’t think it would be going TOO FAR to say they are SO reasonable that it’s a confounding mystery why someone didn’t come up with aftermarket fuses prior to 20 YEARS AGO. Geoff Kait |
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