Hi Fi Tuning Supreme fuse-Burn In?

auxinput:
A very nice description of just some of the changes that can be made to improve the sound a fuse imparts on a piece of equipment. 

The main point to me is that all the power goes thru the fuse and different fuses can have a significant affect on a system's sound.


dlcockrum definitely brings up a good point mentioning the Synergistic Research Blue fuses. I also agree they have a very positive affect and with their being on sale and having a great return policy, this is a good time to give them a try. They have been a major upgrade in my systems.

David Pritchard

Like I said, since I haven't tried the BLUE fuses, I don't know what they are going do to the sound.  The only thing people have said is "they sound amazing", but they don't quantify what is being changed.  Since I know how the Furutech and Hi-Fi Tuning Supreme affects system and voltage, I will continue to use those fuses to tune my systems.  I still have several other issues and equipment I need to upgrade and take care of first before I start another journey on "what exactly is this BLUE fuse doing?" .lol.  I have not read the thousand plus posts "Blue" thread.

Why a premium fuse sounds substantially better then the stock steel- zinc fuses 
is easy to explain , just lookup metal  conductor  resistances 
the higher number the better, Copper,Silver veryclose 63-67 index
the stock  buzz fuse a 18 maybe . It is a high bottleneck like a 1/4 pipe vs a         1 inch pipe  all that low level hash is resistance the electrons can just move far more freely.
i give them a minimum of 100 hours to settle down ,and more refined up to
 Another 100 hours.

Oopsy Daisy, I’m pretty sure you didn’t mean electrons. We’ve had that chapter already. Electrons don’t really move. Besides you’ve got your vibration control and RFI/EMI stuff and you’ve even got some quantum stuff to consider in the case of HiFi Tuning Fuses.

@greh ,
I started out with Silver Stars with my Marantz and found the same thing as you: bright leading edge and a lack of body or weight in exchange. 

If you're tinkering with an amp, may I suggest the PADIS fuse? After trying a AHP fuse in my Kinki integrated, it had the same, if not more pronounced, effect as the HiFi Tuning fuse. Incredible intelligibility and air at the expense of body, weight, low end, etc. 

Discovering that the Kinki uses a 8A fuse, I looked at my old collection and put in a PADIS fuse (that I found a bit too dark in my Marantz) and lo and behold, it's a winning combination. 

The Kinki still has all the extension, air, detail and attack but now has more weight, body or gravitas, if you will. It's a more muscular presentation but not at the expense of anything else. Anything instrumental sounds all the more realistic and vocals have a more corporal element to them. 

Maybe I should have waited a little longer for it to break in or it could be it's more copasetic with the Kinki, but it's staying in for the foreseeable future. They're only $25 and it takes about 2 weeks to get them from Germany and they're fully compliant with any and all electrical ratings.

All the best,
Nonoise