^^^ Steve ... You have such a beautiful dedicated room for your main system. How about posting it on the "Virtual System" site? I'm sure the other members would love to see it.
Frank
Frank
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?
Any comments from anyone else who has tried these fuses?
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i just ordered the black duplex mainly because of the free fuse. I think the bass in my system is good enough already. I am hoping the duplex will make things more warm and musical instead. Did I just make a wrong move? Got 30 days to try it out. Looking forward to hear the final outcome from fleschler. |
100 hours on the duplex with standard fuses. They appear to have broken in so that the mids are balanced with new superior bass and higher treble ranges and the ambiance, reverb, natural decay and air which was awol for the first three days are back. They sound similar to the black fuses. They may require an additional 100 hours to get to that place where the fuses were so beguiling and lush sounding. I will be installing the fuses after another 2 or 3 days just to see how far the duplex sounds. A25105. The black fuses in my main amps only after only 2.5 hours made my system addictively richer, more detailed, and more musically interesting (until they blew). They were rated 5 amp slo-blo. SR Elliott is sending me 6.3 amp fuses. I also installed a duplex in my living room system. That system consists of highly modified Dynaco ST 70 voltage regulated (not a ultralinear tap design), custom tube preamp, modified pioneer DVD-05 DVD/CD player (six big caps, high end Power cords on all equipment), Kenwood tuner and Legacy Signature 111s. The black duplex after 24 hours showed great improvement in smoothing out high end peakiness from the rear tweeter, better integration of sound, wider soundstage, and the same punchy deep bass as before. My wife liked it immediately compared for the bad taste from my main system after 30 hours. I will be installing a 4 amp fuse just in case as it is rated 3 amps but SR Elliot recommended the higher rating. If if you have the Teslaplex SE and replace it with the black duplex, put it on your television/cable box/blue ray player. I have a 75" Sony x940C and it improved the picture. The other big TV improvement (my wife told me to keep the tweak because it the picture was obviously much better) is to install a set of Stillpoints ultra-minis under your cable box. |
If anyone is looking for an inexpensive, but high quality, equipment rack, I recommend the Pangea Vulcan: http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PGVULRK I just got one, and love it. It is very easy to assemble. I was pleasantly surprised at how much it improved the sound, especially with the addition of Herbie's Audio Lab Cone/Spike Decoupling Gliders: http://herbiesaudiolab.net/spkrfeet.htm I also highly recommend Herbie's Tenderfeet: http://herbiesaudiolab.net/compfeet.htm |
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