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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Charles1dad 3-27-2017

Yes my expectation would be that a 119.00 dollar product should be superior to the 9.00 dollar product or why else would you spend the extra 110.00. What I recognize is that you don’t know with any certainty until you actually compare via listening.

Which brings to mind one of the reasons the lack of a good technical understanding of how a product "works" may be significant. Without such an understanding, or at least a basis for confidence that the designers of the product have such an understanding (which would seem doubtful if how the product "works" cannot be either fully explained or fully predicted based on generally recognized science), there would seem to be no basis for anyone (including the designers) to accurately predict the point of demarcation between optimization of a given parameter or design characteristic of the product and what may be overkill of that parameter or design characteristic, which will accomplish nothing in most or all applications.

Therefore, IMO, it can be expected that what may in many cases be a significant driver of the cost of expensive tweaks or other products whose principles of operation are not thoroughly understood (in a quantitative manner, at least) is overkill of some or all of their design parameters and characteristics, which will accomplish nothing in most or all applications. Or that may make a difference in some applications, but a difference that is unpredictable, and may even be for the worse from a subjective standpoint.

That, IMO, being a significant contributor to the loose correlation between price and performance that many audiophiles have reported in various contexts here and elsewhere.

I agree with Charles’ second sentence that I quoted, of course.

Best regards,

-- Al



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Geoffkait: For audio, at least, it’s not about electrons. Electrons have absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s about photons. Hel-loo!

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What, exactly, is a Photon? As you know...’good luck with that’...

Geoffkait: Thanks for the excellent example of Newton’s Third Law: For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction.

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Speaking of photons and regarding electricity....Interestingly enough, the liquid metal mixture in the Teo Audio cables..just happens to be.... the most wide band high quality reflector known to humanity.

As in: 1) widest chunk of the electromagnetic chart/spectrum reflected... and... 2) highest percentage of reflectivity (as in ’best’ among first surface mirrors)

Besides truly functioning at the quantum level with kinetics and fluid, hydrodynamics and magnetics. More incomplete and unsolved math, theory, and engineering potential than you can swing a billy goat at.

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Whoa! What?! I’m rather relieved to hear something’s truly functioning at the quantum level. I do not like hear about incomplete and unsolved math, however. That’s a little too messy. So the liquid metal is reflecting photons? Interesting....pretty sure that’s the same way Pall Mall cigarettes worked, by traveling the smoke further and making it mild.

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Today I successfully installed a PCB fuse holder into my computer's power supply. The stock fuse had leads soldered to the ends that were then soldered directly to the PCB. It took careful work with the Dremel to widen the PCB inlets to accept the fuse holder and now I can roll fuses with ease. I'll soon order an SR Black fuse to replace the stock fuse rated at 6.3 amps/250V (5 x 20mm).

*This was cut from a post of mine under the Digital label titled "Computer PS Upgrade (Fuse/IEC/Teflon Cap)"