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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?
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Hi Charles,

Ivan Moravec was certainly among the great pianists, especially when it comes to his interpretations of the works of Chopin. I have about a half dozen of his recordings for solo piano that were issued on high quality cassettes several decades ago, on the Connoisseur In Sync Label. All are wonderful! I’m not sure if they were subsequently issued on CD, or if CDs that may have been issued are still available.

I’m not familiar with the recordings of Ms. Nikolyeva.

Regarding the Starker/Sebok Bach recording I mentioned earlier, here is a link to it in LP form ($78 in "used/very good" condition!), and here is a YouTube link presenting two of the three sonatas it contains. I can’t seem to find a CD version, however.

Best regards,
-- Al

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Synergistic fuses are significantly inferior to BUSSMAN and LITTELFUSE products; from my investigations. They are not even reliably rated! Shocking potential...
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Results revealed by a tester...."  I've tested these (SR Black) and found these claims to be nonsense, even while providing the weeks of break-in (!). In fact, after my little comparison to the Littelfuse (and other generally stock fuses) products I've used for years, I discovered an SR Black had been left in my amp for months, which I replaced with the original  Littelfuse with zero change in tone. Try asking anybody how these little graphene enhanced seriously overpriced tiny wire devices actually work (magically coat the electrons with Special Sauce?) and prepare for scorn. The SR business model seems to be "money paid equals results experienced" even when the products are laughably unnecessary.
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Fleschler, some additional input relating to the hypothesis I provided earlier that in some cases might explain sonic differences between supposedly identical CDs.

An Audiogon member whose screen-name is Kirkus is, in addition to being one of our most technically brilliant contributors, highly experienced in analyzing and measuring the internal circuits of CD players, transports, and DACs. An excerpt of a post he provided on 7-20-2011 in this thread:
Two big conceptual errors I see very commonly are the assumption that any intrinsic jitter related to retrieval of information off of a CD actually occurs through the forward signal/data path, and that any sonic artifact associated with parts upstream of the DAC must be classifiable as jitter.

In reality, CD players, transports, and DACs are a menagerie of true mixed-signal design problems, and there are a lot of different noise sources living in close proximity with susceptible circuit nodes. One oft-overlooked source is crosstalk from the disc servomechanism into other parts of the machine . . . analog circuitry, S/PDIF transmitters, PLL clock, etc., which can be dependent on the condition of the disc.

... One would be surprised at some of the nasty things that sometimes come up out of the noise floor when the focus and tracking servos suddenly have to work really hard to read the disc.
Such effects figure to be dependent on the physical characteristics of the particular pressing, the condition of the disc, and the design of the particular playback hardware. And to have little if any predictability.

Regards,
-- Al



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mac48025George,
I wish I knew how to post links, but I don’t.
Mac, what I simply asked was for a link to an Audiophile fuse manufacturer that states that their fuse will improve the sound of your system, not hearsay.

Cheers George
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