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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Einstein is lying in bed with a young lass smoking a cigarette. The young lass says, gee, that didn’t take long. To which Einstein replies, to me it did.
Teo_audio wrote,

"Most important take away:

you can build things with scientific laws and facts, but you can’t explore the given difficult new thing with scientific laws or facts being in control of the outcome."

no one ever said you have to control the outcome with scientific laws or facts. That's what is referred to as a Strawman. However, having said that, most or almost all observable phenomena CAN be explained by current scientific laws or facts. What might be difficult for one person to explain might be a snap for someone else. 




Geoffkait 3-28-2017
... most or almost all observable phenomena CAN be explained by current scientific laws or facts. What might be difficult for one person to explain might be a snap for someone else.
+1. A good audio-related example of that can be found in the current thread entitled "Most Important, Unloved Cable," in which several people reported that significant sonic improvements resulted from upgrading ethernet cables that are used in their systems. With the upgrades in most cases being very inexpensive.

A couple of posters, including one who deals with ethernet networking professionally, dismissed that as preposterous, and undoubtedly the result of expectation bias. But for someone who happens to have the right background (me), it was a snap to explain those results. And to explain them in a manner, as I put it in that thread, that is "well within the bounds of established science and engineering." See my post in that thread dated yesterday, 3-27-2017.

BTW, in saying this my intent is certainly not to toot my own horn, but simply to provide a specific audio-related example supporting your comment.

Regards,
-- Al

Has anyone on this forum broke open an SR black fuse and analyzed what it is made of and constructed?   Who knows, maybe it does not have a hair thin wire but a thick wire made of some other substance.  Maybe it has anti-vibrational content differing from cheap basic fuses.   Finding out what and how it is made could answer questions as to why it works and so well.    In the meantime, I'll just keep listening to my fuse induced sonic improvements.


^^^ A very good suggestion.  However, I believe in another thread someone posted links to pictures of SR black receptacles that were identical visually to those sold at Lowes, but the SRs were treated with 2,000,000 volts and a graphene coating.  Which is just to say there might not be a visual difference,