Thanks Nonoise. I believe you may go through a few more areas of burn-in pain with those Padis. Rhodium is like that. There could be times you turn it on and listen and say "I just can't listen to this!". Sometimes it can be bright, sometimes hard-edged and brittle, sometimes the high frequencies go away and it becomes messy. The last 50-70 hours is typically the hardest where the rhodium works through the brightest and hardest edge tones. At about 200 hours is where most of the pain is worked out, but the rhodium can continue to mature and refine until about 300 hours.
What I have found recently is that some components do not work well with full Furutech rhodium (also depends on power cords / interconnects). I use all rhodium plated power cords as well as interconnects.
In your situation, the Marantz equipment is typically voiced to be warm. I think This can work very well with the rhodium plated fuses in getting the most resolution out of these pieces of equipment. I would say burn the SACD fuses in fully and then listen to see if you're happy. The Hi-Fi Silver Star is going to be a more forgiving fuse when compared to the Rhodium. It will not be as revealing. You can always put Padis in the integrated later if you decide you want more resolution/detail there.
In my situation, I recently determined that my very strong/fast Emotiva XPR-1 class AB solid state amps where just too fast in responding to the waveforms. I have Krell processor with just one Class A analog stage. This was not enough to smooth the waveforms out before it hit the Class AB amp. The sound was just too thin (revealing the character of Emotiva without remorse). I went ahead and put back in the Isoclean fuses I used to run in them. The result was an improvement warmth and better midbass and body (more volume). However, I lost too much high frequency clarity and the sound became a little "lo-fi". Very pleasant, but not enough detail.
The Emotvia amps use 2 fuses (one fuse feeds into the second fuse). I found using a combination of 1 Furutech + 1 Isoclean made the amp sound absolutely amazing. However, 2 Furutech or 2 Isoclean made it slant too far in those opposite directions.
If you have a Class A preamp going into a Class A amplifier (or a very warm equipment like Marantz), then all rhodium can be a good thing.
