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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To everyone posting here: Do any of you like coffee? I do. I love really great coffee. Its the only coffee I'll drink. Most think the swill Starbucks sells is good coffee. Most people are entirely satisfied drinking swill. They and their friends have been convinced through advertising that just because they spend 5 bucks on a cup of swill, the 5 bucks somehow makes the brew drinkable. Its not ... not by as long shot. The foul bitterness is due to burning the beans and producing in essence charcoal water. The person I bought my speakers from years ago convinced me to get into home roasting my coffee. He showed me where to buy the green coffee beans and all of the equipment needed to get things going. Once everything was set up and the first roast of Guatemala's finest was finished, I brewed a pot of the ebony elixir and took my first sip. It wasn't subtle; it was a revelation in coffee and how it should taste. I experienced hints of ripe plums and faint traces of nutmeg evolving into chocolate overtones as the cup cooled. Bright, crisp and no hint of bitterness at all. Here's the site I use. www.sweetmarias.com The service is exceptional and the coffee is the best you can buy. Expensive? Nope, average price is under seven bucks per pound. The initial investment in the roaster is about the price of three SR Black fuses. Tom, along with his wife Maria, run sweet maria's from their warehouse in San Francisco. Tom travels all over the world to visit small, family owned organic farms. He only buys the best in small lots. For those of you who love coffee like I do, and who can also hear the difference good after market fuses make, even with the ability of hearing the proper orientation of the fuses, I encourage you to visit sweet maria's site. Here's the roaster I settled on: https://www.sweetmarias.com/product/behmor-1600-plus Its totally reliable and you can use it indoors because it has a built in filter and doesn't smoke like most coffee roasters. Once you get the formula right on the roasts, you won't turn back. I've used the Behmor roaster for years with no problems what so ever. Here's the vacuum brewer I use. It produces an exceptionally clean cup of coffee. Much better than a French press by far. https://www.sweetmarias.com/product/yama-vacuum-brewer-two-sizes For those of you who believe that coffee is coffee and it can't be improved upon, forget about it. Just remain in ignorant bliss while drinking swill. Yuck! And no ... I haven't measured the results. Frank |
Frank, Thanks to this thread you've started I took the SR Black splurge and even after only about 16 hours I'm happy I did. My system hasn't sounded better. It hasn't been a resounding sound difference......yet......the subtle improvements add immensely to my listening pleasure though. A tad more detail here, clarity there, a bit more air and texture everywhere adds an ambiance I've not heard before. As to coffee, ive never had a cup. Neither has my wife so we don't even own a coffee maker but your description of your brewing of it almost makes me want to brew some. Or maybe I'll just stick with brewing beer ;) A nice hearty bourbon stout maybe......that's as close to drinking coffee as I've experienced. |
To Granny ring. I have spent 20 years realizing and upgrading stock parts gor premium ones . Trust me I have argued with amplifier mfg telling me a stock power cord will fo nothing it is just the metal burging in , or a capacitor is s capacitor. I just spent the last two weeks putting 200 hours on these new Synergistic Black fuses with several guys over 2 times the cheap steel fuses were put back in then thd Black fuses in proper direction normally pointing back to ftont these fuses thd engineers said 300 hours because of thd treatment and Graphene is multitudes more dense then Copper . I could not be happier. And before that changed the coupling caps throughout my system VH OIMP caps ,snd Jupiter Copper foil caps , and when doing Loudspeakers get your capacitors matched to under 1% for all .the Path audio resistors are the Most accurate by far mine were matched with 1/2 of 1%. You most certainly can here the timing accuracy as well as phase. Any company charging $10k plus and putting Solen in is s Disgrace. My Salk Bud Fried Speakers come with Solen but Jim let's you havd whatever you want. The Duelund Cast the best, but way over priced . The Jupiter Copper foil are better then the standard Duelund in my experiences. Jantzen Copper inductors ard excellent and decent Salk use Jantzen and mills resistors which are very respectable. Even Teflon solo crystal Copper wire makes a difference as well as connectors, Bybee makes a great kit for improving the sonics also. My tech builds custom dual mono Pass lab 1at watt amps, and DHT preamplifiers. This way you build top quality and you the buyer Has full control of the parts quality going into your unit ascwrl, as the case and powDer coated finish. If any of your guys are thinking about a amp or preamp or anything else Email me I would be happy to help.😎🎷🎸🎻 |
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