The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses ....
Thanks Frank. I will check that one out.This one is pretty incredible on Audioquest: https://www.amazon.com/Old-Songs-Bennie-Wallace/dp/B000N0LIUI I have the LP and can vouch for it sonically. Haven’t heard the CD but Audioquest recordings are always top drawer. Dave |
Raul Can any one of you ask your self why amps, preamps, speaker, cdp high price$$$ manufacturers just don't use the fancy fuses?. I started a thread asking that exact question and I got bombarded with responses and then a battle took place. You make some sense to me. And maybe it is not logical because I have a high end system. I really have not heard a major impact like some people are talking. So, maybe if my system was say lower end I might hear more improvements. I tested a Padis fuse versus the SR Blue versus my $2.50 Auto Parts fuse. I did hear a slight improvement with the Padis. I did not get anymore improvement with the SR Blue. I left the Blue in for over a week playing it 6-8 hours a day. Yes, I did thoroughly enjoy my music. Today, I switched back to the Padis fuse. There is absolutely no degradation of sound and imo it might be better than the SR Blue. I am lucky because the cost of equipment is not a factor. But for the person on a budget the $30 Padis fuse is pretty damn good. I would love for the SR people to test for themselves and report back honestly if you can. |
Frank, Interesting thing about the Conte Condoli All Stars album. Tidal has two versions: one with cover art that has the "Crown Records" emblem on the lower left hand corner and another with cover art showing "Masters of Jazz" and "The Ultimate Jazz Collection" which I assume to be a remaster (released in 2011). The latter sounds cleaner with more detail and air compared to the former. Great music either way. :) Here’s another Conte Candoli remaster that sounds really good if a wee bit too warm on the bottom, but no extreme panning of instruments to the left and right on this stereo version: http://us.napster.com/artist/conte-candoli/album/toots-sweet-remastered-2014 I think this one is also a gem of 1960 "West Coast" jazz: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/art-pepper-presents-west-coast-sessions-vol-6-shelly-manne-cd/33402341.p?skuId=33402341 Dave |
^^^ Very nice Dave. I have four of the Conte Candoli albums. I’m a real fan. Most of my Candoli recordings are on the Lighthouse All Star albums. The lighthouse, in Hermosa Beach, CA., was our local jazz club when I was in high school. We were there all the time it seems. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1311.R1.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xhoward+... Frank |
Rauliruegas, you may wish to keep in mind that it is not simply "lesser systems" that show improvement. My buddy, the late Harry Pearson, also discovered fuses a couple of years before he died, and used them. He only got as far as the Hi Fi tuning fuses, but that’s not the point. The point is: I doubt Frank or anyone else had systems to match Harry’s, and I doubt you’d be stupid enough to call his systems "lesser." They probably surpass ALL of the systems most of us have - by far. And Harry was not sentimental about equipment. He tested the claims of the fuse makers, picked the one that he found worked best and used it. So, ixnay on the ’euphony’ stuff. Some of us can evaluate as well as Wolf or anyone else on these forums. And it is not necessary for us to offer "reasons" theories or anything else. We know because we’ve tested it extensively. And unless the idea is that the HPs of the world were "paid" to say this (he’d throttle you) because of their ’exalted status,’ perhaps the possibility exists that it works better in some equipment than others, as Harry and I both found. If the fuses cost $10, I doubt you’d object. But because a cottage industry has sprung up around fuses, some find it necessary to disparage - and worse - DEMAND proof. How would we do that short of inviting you into our homes. And Harry was pretty scornful of people demanding he do exactly that. Simply believe what you want and desist in the snob approach ("Lesser fine tunned audio system always will shows " improvements " but in these lesser systems almost any change can makes a listeable difference for " the better.") If you believe that, your credibility just vanished. Completely. I believe I have said several times that certain fuses did not improve the sonics OR musical expression of my system, the same as I have said for outlets and even in my reviews, components themselves. Some of us know what LIVE (and the usual qualification: "unamplified") music sound like. Why would we ever need to prove to someone - any more than adding a new power cord or line conditioner - that it benefitted my system? Why is a component of complicated construction more believable than one of supposedly ’simple’ construction? I once had the best turntable on the planet (the Versa Dynamics), along with several other "bests" (Jadis preamp and amp: Goldmund turntable, Goldmund amp and Goldmund speakers); VAC integrated and VAC amps, Wilsons, Spectrals, Transparents’s HIGHEST LEVEL speaker cable and interconnect; MIT’s HIGHEST SPEAKER CABLE and interconnect. Were my pronouncements more believable then than now, now that I had "lesser" equipment? Your argument is based on economics - at least as you yourself have worded your latest thread. (The Snob Approach, and a disgusting one at that. "My system is better than your system, so my conclusion is the best." Fine. Well, then, between 1986 and 1996, my system was better than most people’s systems. So, whatever I pronounced was ’The FINAL WORD’ (aside from HP and other TAS writers)??? So, only the most expensive systems are the arbiters and not an the actual owner and his acuities in discerning his room’s acoustic properties, (and lack of), their ability to extract the maximum performance, and hear the real from the pretenders? My 20K system outperforms - in musical expression only - my local dealer’s $150K system, which I demonstrated - in HIS show room. Don’t be a wanker, mate. |
