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The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses ....

New SR BLUE fuse thread ...

I’ve replaced all 5 of the SR BLACK fuses in my system with the new SR BLUE fuses. Cold, out of the box, the BLUE fuses stomped the fully broken-in SR BLACKS in a big way. As good as the SR BLACK fuses were/are, especially in comparison with the SR RED fuses, SR has found another break-through in fuses.

1. Musicality ... The system is totally seamless at this point. Its as if there is no system in the room, only a wall to wall, front to back and floor to ceiling music presentation with true to life tonality from the various instruments.

2. Extension ... I’ve seemed to gain about an octave in low bass response. This has the effect of putting more meat on the bones of the instruments. Highs are very extended, breathing new life into my magic percussion recordings. Vibes, chimes, bells, and triangles positioned in the rear of the orchestra all have improved. I’ve experienced no roll-off of the highs what so ever with the new BLUE fuses. Just a more relaxed natural presentation.

3. Dynamics ... This is a huge improvement over the BLACK fuses. Piano and vibes fans ... this is fantastic.

I have a Japanese audiophile CD of Flamenco music ... the foot stomps on the stage, the hand clapping and the castanets are present like never before. Want to hear natural sounding castanets? Get the BLUE fuses.

4. Mid range ... Ha! Put on your favorite Ben Webster album ... and a pair of adult diapers. Play Chris Connor singing "All About Ronnie," its to die for.

Quick .... someone here HAS to buy this double album. Its a bargain at this price. Audiophile sound, excellent performance by the one and only Chris Connor. Yes, its mono ... but so what? Its so good you won’t miss the stereo effects. If you’re the lucky person who scores this album, please post your results here.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRASONIC-CLEAN-The-Finest-Of-CHRIS-CONNOR-Bethlehem-Jazz-1975-NM-UNPLAYED-...

Overall impressions:

Where the RED fuses took about 20 hours to sound their best, and the BLACK fuses took upwards of 200 hours of total break-in, the BLUE fuses sounded really good right out of the box ... and that’s without doing anything about proper directional positioning. Not that the BLUE fuses don’t need breaking in, they do. The improvement continues through week three. Its a gradual break-in thing where each listening session is better than the last.

Everything I described above continues to break new ground in my system as the fuses continue breaking in. Quite honestly, I find it difficult to tear myself away from the system in order to get things done. Its truly been transformed into a magical music machine. With the expenditure of $150.00 and a 30 day return policy there’s really nothing to lose. In my system, its like upgrading to a better pre amp, amp, CD player or phono stage. Highly recommended.

Kudos to Ted Denney and the entire staff at SR. Amazing stuff, guys. :-)

Frank

PS: If you try the SR BLUE fuses, please post your results here. Seems the naysayers, the Debbie Downers and Negative Nellie’s have hijacked the original RED fuse thread. A pox on their houses and their Pioneer receivers.

Frank



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“uberwaltz,

Your question is like "how do you know magnetic bracelets don’t work in healing people don’t work if you haven’t tried it?"

Just as a magnetic bracelet is based on medical claims that have no main-stream medical backing and the "evidence" is of the unreliable personal anecdote variety, it’s the same with audiophile fuses.”

>>>>>No, it’s not like magnetic bracelets. Or other odd ball alternative healing remedies. Its not like dowsing. It’s not like sleeping on nails. It’s not like sleeping with a crystal under your pillow. It’s not like radionics. It’s not like UFOs, either. And it’s not like any of the other absurd examples skeptics come up with. Those would all be logical fallacies.

From Zen and the Art of Debunkery,

• Portray science not as an open-ended process of discovery but as a pre-emptive holy war against invading hordes of quackery-spouting infidels. Since in war the ends justify the means, you may fudge, stretch or violate the scientific method, or even omit it entirely, in the name of defending it.

• Reinforce the popular fiction that our scientific knowledge is complete and finished. Do this by asserting that "if such-and-such discovery were legitimate, then surely we would already know about it!"

• Practice debunkery-by-association. Lump together all phenomena popularly deemed unorthodox and suggest that their proponents and researchers speak with a single voice. In this way you can indiscriminately drag material across disciplinary lines or from one case to another to support your views as needed. For example, if a claim having some superficial similarity to the one at hand has been (or is popularly assumed to have been) exposed as fraudulent, cite it as if it were an appropriate example.

And finally, (gdhal are you listening?)

• Establish a crusading "Scientific Truth Foundation" staffed and funded by a hive of fawning acolytes. Then purport to offer a million-dollar reward to anyone who can repeatably demonstrate a paranormal phenomenon. Set the bar for paranormality nowhere in particular. Set the bar for repeatability at a "generous" 98%, safely ensuring that even normal scientific studies that demand a mere preponderance of evidence, or average results above chance, would fail to qualify for the prize.
tommylion
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You cannot know for certain whether or not something will make a positive audible difference for you personally until you actually try it, PERIOD. You CAN assess the probability of a positive result in many different ways. Results reported by others is one legitimate way to do that. If you decide, by whatever means, that the probability is too low to be worth your trying it personally, that’s fine. Feel free to say that, and state your reasons why. Persistently making absolute statements that it doesn’t work, badgering, ridiculing and personally attacking those who have tried it, and find it does make a positive difference, is not decent or acceptable behavior, and should not be tolerated.
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gdhal
geoffkait - “I realize this remark will be met with some skepticism, but there has never been an audiophile tweak that has been proven to be a hoax or a fraud. Sorry for bursting any bubbles.”

My proposed test isn’t meant to nor will it prove anything. But it can be useful to demonstrate if what someone claims to hear they actually can hear, or are merely in a state of delusion.

>>>>I realize in your mind you think it’s useful. I’ve already pointed out why you’re wrong.

In other words, you are correct. It won’t prove a fuse is or isn’t a hoax or a fraud. But it will provide opportunity to offer into evidence whether or not the impossible, is possible. Sorry for bursting any bubbles.

>>>>No, it won’t do anything of the sort. it doesn’t mean anything. Pop! 🎈 Besides, I will decide what’s possible, not you. And stop using my lines! By the way it sounds like you’re changing your tune. Aren’t you a big fuse skeptic? Oh, I get it, you just think the differences are too small to hear. Sitting in the fence, eh? Don’t tell me you’ve come over to the dark side.
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geoffkait - ...By the way it sounds like you’re changing your tune. Aren’t you a big fuse skeptic?...

No. I’m not a **fuse** skeptic. See my response 04-15-2018 10:21pm

I’m skeptical of individuals who state the **impossible**, which is that they can audibly detect with the naked ear whether or not an ordinary fuse/speaker wire has been reversed. See my 04-16-2018 5:52am post.

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ivan_nosnibor
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Did some reading on this a while back FWIW. The iron in hemoglobin (red blood cells) is weakly reactive to magnetic charge (has been demonstrated in a lab along with micro-graphs as evidence), but there are 2 kinds of charge - oxygenated hemoglobin weakly repels and hemoglobin carrying CO2 is weakly attractive. Most of the hemoglobin in the human body is oxygenated.

The magnetic bracelet idea works in the mind of the consumer as being a way to 'attract and to hold' RBC's at a particular site on the body, presumably for tissue repair. 

But, if you understand how the cellular respiratory system in the body works this is a pretty dumb idea and, in fact, the exact opposite of what you would want to happen. RBC's deliver oxygen to all the cells in the body and collect the waste (CO2) and take it back to the lungs where it is exchanged for O2 again and the cycle repeats...cellular respiration. Assuming there was a way to 'collect and hold' RBC's to a given site (let's presume it is for the sake of, say, tissue repair), then we have to consider the following. A) there's only one task that the RBC's can perform (exchanging the 2 gases...the fighting of foreign bodies in the blood can only be done by white blood cells which contain no iron) and that B) any delay in the exchange process can and will only result in a delay of cellular respiration...not an advantage at all, and in fact, a disadvantage.

But, because of the fact that oxygenated hemoglobin is weakly repelled by a magnetic charge, even the implied claim that they can be influenced to stay at the bracelet's applied site by magnetism is wholly untrue. Only the CO2-carrying RBC's could theoretically be attracted to the site which of course, can be of no benefit and in view of the process of cellular respiration overall, that delay is nothing more than an interference.
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