Synergistic Red Fuse ...

The C48 employs some sort of fuseless short circuit protection according to what I saw on the Internet. I don't know whether that means that are no fuses in the C48 but it might.

@oregonpapa   

I don't buy the purity argument. We are talking about modern electrical power to a modern power supply and not medieval alchemy. 

I do buy many many of the tweaks you mention. Not so much power cords but I do believe power conditioners can help badly designed equipment perform better. So we agree on many things. 

I also agree on Mel Torme and I have many of his albums in both vinyl and CD. Exceptional crooner!!! Possibly the best and better than Sinatra in many ways.

@geoffkait

I wondered myself along the same lines but just cannot get a good solid answer
Hopefully McIntosh will reply to my email asking for clarification I sent them this morning
May have to start at twice the price by replacing the pair in my BAT VK600SE instead.....

Thank you Frank for the effusive compliments on my audio systems.  The Altec amps only have the casework and transformers remaining.  At SR, the tech suggested 8 amp fuses after the amp rated 5 amp fuses blew.  This was after I informed him the the amps have two massive (7" X 3") storage caps which cause a great sustained inrush of power to fill.  On my solid state gear and speakers for my Video system, he told me to stick with the rated fast blow fuses. 

Grover Huffman uses the Mel Torme CD for auditioning equipment such as at the Newport Show.  As to Sinatra, there are many very fine CD/LPs which match Torme although I have many of his as well.  Remastering of his Capitol LPs on CDs has been an issue with the earliest being weaker sounding and the Norberg 2000 period remasteing ruined with his overuse of Sonic Solutions software, filtering out the highs.  I found an excellent reissue box from UK which has the best sound for the Capitol mono LPs which are very inexpensive (probably the reissue of the very expensive UK older set).
https://www.amazon.com/Capitol-Years-1953-62-Frank-Sinatra/dp/B00OAF8D3C/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=U... There are several top quality remastered Columbia 78 CDs as well including Andreas Meyers
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Frank-Sinatra-Columbia-Years/dp/B00009PJS2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&q... no reverb added remastering

The last item I want to address is the increased benefit of the Black SR over the Red SR duplex outlet.  It's effect is the same as the fuses but less prominent in my system once I installed the Black fuses.  I haven't tried the Black outlet with standard fuses and I'm not going to bother. 

Both my Altec and Dynaco ST70 amps are not conventional and are voltage regulated designs.  Grover dislikes ultralinear amps so his designs are different.  The Dynaco is the best Frank or Robert ever heard and it's not expensive to change a few components and the transformer tap.  Superb tight and deep bass from a ST70 is a rare thing, going down to 20 Hz on my Signature IIIs.

Hi fleschler, would you mind expanding on what you mean by your Dynaco ST70 is not a conventional amp?  I have a couple and was wondering if you replaced the fuse in it and if so which rating did you use?  If so, was there much of an impact?
Thanks