Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Bill (Grannyring), as you realize a given length of 14 gauge wire will have much lower resistance than the same length of thin fuse wire. However, the very short length of a fuse wire will result in very low resistance anyway, since the resistance of a conductor is directly proportional to length (as are inductance, capacitance, and many other wire and cable parameters and effects). Consequently the voltage drop across a fuse in an audio component will be a small fraction of a volt, and in many cases a very small fraction of a volt. That can be confirmed via some simple calculations based on the detailed technical specs that are provided for Littelfuse and Bussmann fuses.

It would seem expectable that there will be **some** circumstances under which loss of a small fraction of a volt in a fuse would have audible consequences, although not necessarily in the direction of causing the sonics to be worse. However, as I’ve previously said in this thread what seems unexplainable is that upgrading to a specific fuse would be found to be sonically beneficial with the high degree of consistency that has been reported, among components that are completely different in design, that perform completely different functions, that are used in very different systems, that are powered by AC having very different voltage and noise characteristics, and in DC as well as AC applications. That continues to be a mystery as far as I am concerned.

Best regards,
-- Al

Dave, you are 100% correct in your 12/26 post, the black fuses sounded glorious for the first 10 hours, then yesterday and today at 11 to 20 hours, the system sounded mediocre, comparable to mid-fi solid state from the 80's, tonally thin, undynamic, shallow soundstage, hashy, etc. (both fuse directions).  I cannot listen to this so I am taking Frank and your advise in keeping my big tube amps on until after New Years (4 days continuously).  I hope the fuses break-in sounding at least as good as when I first installed them.

There is a question which I haven't seen answered.  Do large amperage, slo-blo fuses take longer to break in than low amperage fast blow fuses?  Frank suggested it may not matter when I asked him due to the graphene and other dampening compounds which take the same amount of time to break-in.  

Lastly, I would greatly appreciate a company that breaks in their products. For the fuses, I would gladly pay 50% more instead of burning up my tubes waiting for the fuses to be listenable.

Almarg                                               12-292016

" That continues to be a mystery as far as I am concerned "

What remains a mystery to me is that you have not evaluated Synergistic's black fuses in your system and published the results in this forum. This could easily be accomplished in three weeks, thereby allowing you to return them within the 30 day return period ( if you so desire ).

"I hope the fuses break-in sounding at least as good as when I first installed them."

They will, fleschler, and more refined.

Best to you,
Dave

Fleschler,

i could be be wrong but I noticed the fast blow fuses that are being used as rail fuse did not take as long to break in compare to the slow blow that are being used as main fuses in my amp.  

Allan