Wow. Listening to Sebok and Starker on The Mercury Living Presence label right now (Roon & Tidal). Brahms & Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas. It is just beautiful. Love to hear about other pieces like this beauty!
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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George, I wish I knew how to post links, but I don't. But if you google "PS Audio fuses" you'll find two articles written by Paul McGowan regarding fuses. One is simply titled "Fuses" dated 2/29/16 and the other titled "Lighting the Fuse" dated 12/15/11. I don't share this to be combative, but to offer links showing manufacturers stating their belief that fuses can make a positive sonic benefit. Decware does also. I shall find Steve Deckerts thoughts on them and post them. Quotes from his "Fuses" article.... "Here's a subject that drives some people nuts, fuses." ( Ain't that a fact!) " I first became aware of fuses and their sonic differences in the 1980's." " The point of the story is simple. Fuses matter. But why should they matter in an AC circuit? I don't have a great answer handy." Quotes from "Lighting the Fuse" article..... " I can't explain why some fuses with the identical wire whisker size sound differant but they surely do- a lot different." " If your equipment has an internal fuse, give some thought to upgrading it to a better sounding variety." So while the head of PS Audio clearly believes fuses can make a positive sonic difference, he's at a loss to explain why. He looks at fuses as a necessary safety evil and talks about equipment sounding better without them....but isn't advocating not using them! He also mentions how after spending so much on power cords and improving our power that it is all bottlenecked by a quarter inch of a whisker wire. Looking at it that way maybe the fuse is more important to than we thought? |
mapman I have 1st 50 cd MLP box set and all ripped at original resolution to music server. It’s a wonderful sounding set with top notch sound quality overall. The sound quality MLP is renowned for is there in spades. Gk once again is spouting nonsense. Speaking of resolution you clearly have some personal issues you need to resolve. Besides I’m pretty sure "top notch" is an extremely fuzzy way to describe the sound quality of anything. I would choose to say, by contrast, that in general MLP CDs tend to sound whimpy, threadbare, bass shy, two dimensional, honky, piercing, and like paper mache. Relatively speaking, of course. |
Charles & Bill (Grannyring), Sebok isn't nearly as well known as his cellist friend and teaching and recording colleague Janos Starker, but he was a wonderful pianist. I have two of the Mercury Living Presence LP's they did together, of cello and piano sonatas by Bach and Brahms. Both are treasures. Although I haven't listened to them in many years, mainly because both LPs suffered the consequences of being played many times on the "all-in-one" compact system I had during the 1970s, before I knew better :-) Wikipedia has a brief bio of Sebok, and some links to external references. Enjoy! Best regards, -- Al |
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