davidpritchard:
Thanks, sure I will. I find my audiophile grade fuses to add too much clarity to a point where I find it ear fatiguing over an extended period. It brings a lot of other good things on the other hand as the system seems quicker with tighter bass. As some others have reported, I noticed too that I need to dial less the volume knob to get the same sound output from my speakers. My fuses are a brand called Audio Link from Planabox, and they are similar to HiFi Tuning per what I was told. So if people report giant leap in performance between the HiFi Tuning and the SR Blue, then I am even more curious to try it out.
discopants:
Very good and objective write up. I have noticed too often the tech crowd / engineers are the ones who are the most skeptical. They always have the same rhetoric "cables conducts the same electricity so they will all sound the same". When one curious audiophile comes in with claims that cables, fuses, tweaks, etc. improves the sound, they are among the firsts to naysay. I agree with them that the basic principle to carry electricity / signal apply to all electronics but there is just much more than just that and that I cannot understand myself. Only my ears tells me I am no fool. I recently had my CA-1000 modified to remove that '74 original lamp cord and had a proper socket installed so that I can use whatever cable I want, and as soon as I plugged a better power cable, things only got better. I can understand that if you feed an amplifier with better juice, it will have more air to breath. But how and why it affects the sound? I have no idea. Same thing for my Bryston BDA-3. I started with the supplied stock cord and hit play to have a listen. My reaction? Meh.. That's it?? After a few hours, I decided to plug a Shunyata Black Mamba HC/CX and my god what a difference. I cannot explain rationally why it works, but it does. And in the end this is what we all want I think. So for the blue fuse, I just hope they won't be too bright or add too much clarity or kill the bass.
Thanks, sure I will. I find my audiophile grade fuses to add too much clarity to a point where I find it ear fatiguing over an extended period. It brings a lot of other good things on the other hand as the system seems quicker with tighter bass. As some others have reported, I noticed too that I need to dial less the volume knob to get the same sound output from my speakers. My fuses are a brand called Audio Link from Planabox, and they are similar to HiFi Tuning per what I was told. So if people report giant leap in performance between the HiFi Tuning and the SR Blue, then I am even more curious to try it out.
discopants:
Very good and objective write up. I have noticed too often the tech crowd / engineers are the ones who are the most skeptical. They always have the same rhetoric "cables conducts the same electricity so they will all sound the same". When one curious audiophile comes in with claims that cables, fuses, tweaks, etc. improves the sound, they are among the firsts to naysay. I agree with them that the basic principle to carry electricity / signal apply to all electronics but there is just much more than just that and that I cannot understand myself. Only my ears tells me I am no fool. I recently had my CA-1000 modified to remove that '74 original lamp cord and had a proper socket installed so that I can use whatever cable I want, and as soon as I plugged a better power cable, things only got better. I can understand that if you feed an amplifier with better juice, it will have more air to breath. But how and why it affects the sound? I have no idea. Same thing for my Bryston BDA-3. I started with the supplied stock cord and hit play to have a listen. My reaction? Meh.. That's it?? After a few hours, I decided to plug a Shunyata Black Mamba HC/CX and my god what a difference. I cannot explain rationally why it works, but it does. And in the end this is what we all want I think. So for the blue fuse, I just hope they won't be too bright or add too much clarity or kill the bass.