Synergistic Red Fuse ...

oregonpapa:

We're only hearing what came through the microphones.

This is NEVER the case. You are hearing every coloration after the microphone, including your gear, speakers, and room. The goal of an accurate reproduction means minimizing every coloration coming from your power, source player, and onwards. The source material has already gone through a boatload of colorations, after the microphone.

^^^
In other words, the best we can ever hope to hear is what entered the microphone?  :-)

Frank

Abandon all hope, all ye who hear.....

Meanwhile, with these new SR Blacks, it got to where I had so many people playing in my living room, I had to go out the back door and come in through the front. I was hoping to switch the feeling of, "They are here" with "It's like you are there", but I was doubly confused when, upon entering, they stopped and greeted me with, "This isn't who it would be if it wasn't who it is".  Man, these Blacks in my AC mains are blowing me away--to what do I owe this aural transfiguration?  I did have SR Black 8A fuses in my ARC 210s, which call for a stock 7A.  I had ordered some extra fuses during the three-for-two sale, so I pushed those 8A's up to 10A's.  Sure, I could take a hit on ruination, but I have 240 volts at the wall anyway, meaning, I have already put my faith in that step-down transformer for 4000W of smooth power---why not push the envelope on those gatekeeper fuses--so what's with these things? Is all that power really going through those tiny filaments, or are they on a side track, ready to receive an overload off the main flow?  But then, none of the amps work without those fuses, so tell me--why do these things sound so much better three amps over stock? I am just floored by yet another plateau of rich detail, and I was really only looking for something out of putting the SR Blacks in my REL Strata III's. All combined, I feel like I am there, they are here, and we are all one big metaphysical mashup--damn, this is some good sh-t......   

oregonpapa:

^^^
In other words, the best we can ever hope to hear is what entered the microphone? :-)

Frank

Less. Until that theoretical day when every component has no coloration...no noise, frequency variance, resistance, impedance, jitter, etc.