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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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georgehifi
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 ignoring repetitive pablum is advisable. 
Especially when it comes to fuse voodoo, all the advocators are doing is changing an old fuse out for new, this can be done with the same new 10c fuse, no need to spend $100+ for some voodoo one.

Just change out your old fuse for the same new, as they do deteriorate with repetitive switch on/off surges over time, just look what happens in the time lapse pics over a few months to the same fuse, when new on the left, few months old on the right after repetitive switch on's.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/0uqWX.jpg

Cheers George
 
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charles1dad
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Hi Frank,
I received the "care package " today, 9 CDS! You are indeed my musical brother for sure 😃😃.
I’ll begin with the two Milt Jackson recordings tonight as I can’t resist the gorgeous vibraphone. Going out of town the next few days and will resume listening when I return home. I'm curious about the Audrey Morris recording. 
Sincerely,
Charles
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Charles,

How nice to have a buddy like Frank, you get free good music all the time.  You can save your money for more fuses:)

Frank,
I just want to let you know I recently purchased a pair of Cerious Technologies Graphene speaker cables.  I am not ready to write a full review but all I want to say is the effect is bigger than the combinations of 6 SR black fuses, 2 Herbies rings, SR outlet and Audience power chords.  No exaggeration!  If the fuse is rated at 1, the speaker cables just magnified everything to a 10.  I wrote an email to Bob (the owner of Cerious Tech) to let him know that I am keeping his cables after listened to it less than an hour.  Just unbelievable.

Allan
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charles1dad
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Allan,
Frank is a good person and has excellent taste in music. 

Frank,
The Jackson recordings "Second Nature" and "Opus deJazz " are just pure beautiful Bebop masterfully played.  Lucky Thompson,  Hank Jones,  Frank Weiss, Kenny Clarke etc. Playing along with him, this is first rate bop and blues.  I missed watching the NCAA basketball tournament tonight,  could not pull myself away from this music and these marvelous musicians this evening. 
Charles 
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Jond ...

You're right. My apologies. While audio is a major passion for me, so too is history and free market economics. Sometimes I lose myself and go off the deep end. Above was a case in point. Again .... sorry.

Charles ... 

Glad the CD's got there okay. There's some surprisingly amazing stuff in there. The Christmas jazz CD has highs that extend forever. 

Allan ...

Most of what I send to Charles is no longer obtainable ... and some of it never was. :-)  When it comes to music appreciation it seems that Charles and I are pretty much on the same page ... so it makes sharing fun. 

Frank
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