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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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teo_audio
I prefer to avoid the personality part but like most... have to deal with it in recognition of what may be going on in the given case. Nor do my comments have meaning in that area, ie subtle jabs or whatnot. Which creates trouble as people sometimes think they are in the text.

Huh? That’s weird. Subtle jabs? Whoa! What do you think is going on?  I mean, aside from my pointing out that electrons, which you went on and on about in your previous post, have precious little to do with the subject of audio, in particular with the audio signal. Why would I attack you personally? I don't even know you.

teo_audio
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ok. Ye olde less is more, is the lesson. Have a good one, see youse folks in some other thread. :)

(one more thing, thanks for the post about outliers in the one thread, it was amusing but the guy is also a very nice person, so a mixed bag.... like life is....)
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geoff

"You may not remember but I am someone who likes to stick to the facts of the case and avoid personalities."

Captain, fire the photon torpedos, this cannot be our Earth, we must be in an alternate universe and need to blast our way home through the space time continuum.

Jitter




wolf_garcia
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Just watched an interview with Dennis Had (youtube) as I’m thinking about buying one of his Fire Bottle amps…at around 31 minutes he comments about silly tweaks…gold fuses…Inspiring? (pun) Also, to explain what I meant about "predatory marketing skills," it would seem that the simple tweak area is the "low hanging fruit" of audiophile marketing. Why not make a product that costs very little to produce, claim to expose it to some proprietary treatment who's technical explanation is convoluted enough to defy reason and and/or inhibit criticism (or involves bees), and sell it for a gigantic profit into the "naive tweaker" market. A brilliant idea that seems to work every time.
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Did someone que the Court Jester?

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