Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Hi Veerapaneni, you should have heard an improvement through such a pre-amp as yours--can you describe the rest of your system? 

I plan on getting the Blues for my Maggies, but happy at this moment, as described above.  But seriously folks.......I am hoping Almarg and peers will answer my question about AC mains and the functions of their fuses, as I am quite surprised with the sonic gift they are providing.  

lilitk ...

I have the gold CD. I bought it at the original price years ago at the CES show in Las Vegas. I also have the LP. At this moment in time, I’ll take the gold CD over the LP.

Tonight’s listening session was amazing. After listening to Charlie Mingus, I kicked back to an evening of Cal Tjader. What a great jazz group it was too. I was fortunate to hear Tjader live in a jazz club in Hollywood as a senior in high school. A rockin’ good time.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cal-Tjaders-Latin-Concert-LP-by-Cal-Tjader-Vinyl-Jul-1991-Original-Jazz/1125...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CAL-TJADER-LATIN-KICK-ORIG-US-1958-PRESSING-FANTASY-3250-RED-VINYL-/11257639...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CAL-TJADER-QUARTET-Red-Vinyl-Gerald-Wiggins-fantasy-3307-MONO-Latin-Mambo-/3...~

For those of you who are getting into the SR BLUE fuses, please post your results here. Thanks ... 




Frank

veerapaneni
I got blue fuse for my ARC REF 5SE but don’t hear any difference in sound when compared to OEM fuse. Shall I run it for couple of days before comparing again ?

Could be a direction issue, who knows? Does the Blue come with any direction advice? 

^^^

Something isn't right. There should be a huge improvement over a stock fuse. Direction is a trial and error thing just like the RED and BLACK fuses. 

Frank

Jafreeman 9-27-2017
I am hoping Almarg and peers will answer my question about AC mains and the functions of their fuses, as I am quite surprised with the sonic gift they are providing.

I can’t explain that, Joe. Obviously a 10 amp fuse comes a bit closer to being no fuse than a 7 or 8 amp fuse that is otherwise similar, at least in terms of lower resistance, lower voltage drop, and reduced fluctuations in voltage drop as current demand fluctuates. But I would expect both those differences and any resulting sonic differences to be small, especially between the 8 and 10 amp Black fuses you’ve tried. And especially with a robustly designed amp such as the REF 210, which per its description at arcdb.ws has numerous internal voltage regulators, large amounts of energy storage in its power supply (787 joules), and does not have a huge difference between its current draw at idle and at max power (that difference being well under 2:1).

Unrelated to the fuse question, though, after looking at your system description it appears that you are connecting your REL subs at speaker-level, and I assume you are using the balanced inputs of each sub, since the amps are fully balanced. Assuming that is the case, I’m wondering where you are connecting the ground wire from the subs (i.e., what would be the black wire in a typical REL Speakon cable)?

Regards,
-- Al