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Synergistic Research Orange Directional help

Here's the problem,
Well I am the proud owner of Orange Fuse.
I have read a lot about the different directions.

when I put the Fuse in from left to right
I have an enormous stage and resolution. The dynamics are terrifying and the bass goes very deep.


When I put the fuse in from right to left
everything sounds much more detailed, the bass is more powerful, the stage is more powerful and the resolution is a bit smaller, the highs are also more present.

Now which is the right direction? Does anyone of you have experience with this?


audiophil2020
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millercarbon
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Please ignore hifi, he is mentally obsessed and messing with anyone who can hear things he can't. Which seems to be everyone. He is deliberately misleading, sorry.  Just put him on ignore.

My experience is either way the sound is full and dynamic and 3D. But one way everything seems coherent. Not just in focus, but harmonically in tune, with a correct balance and a slightly more liquid or less grainy texture. Not easy to describe but to me its so obvious one way is right the other wrong, I never have any doubt at all. This goes for fuse, Blue and Orange, but all wire, interconnects etc as well.


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georgehifi
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audiophil2020 OP


Don’t get caught up in this snake oil fuse voodoo, do some homework, and you find out that AC mains is "Alternating Current", and it changes it’s direction 60 x a second, so it’s impossible for an AC mains fuse to be directional!

All you need to know about fuses.

The only way a fuse can sound better, if it replaces old crusty one that seen too many switch on surges over time, doesn’t have to be $200 fuse, should be $2 same one but new, and the same result will happen, and switch-on surge ageing will be the same for both $200 fuse or the $2 fuse

A slow-blo fuse ageing over time right to left
https://ibb.co/8XGQf2z


A fast-blo fuse ageing over time left to right
https://ibb.co/QcKk94M

Your better off spending $2 on a "new original fuse", and save hundreds.



Cheers George

audiophil2020 OP
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Well that had to come where there are questions about audio equipment, the voodoo preachers are nearby.
To Georghifi's answer, I already had several Fuse in my system, including the originals. All sounded better than the regular Fuse hardware store. The Orange Fuse are the best I've ever heard in my system, no matter what direction.
There are only small differences in the direction, so I want to find out what the differences are. No more and no less.


audiophil2020 OP
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Many thanks Millercarbon
This is really helping me. Then there is now no more doubt in my system must be the direction from left to right.
This fits perfectly with your experience with the Fuse.
One side is a bit softer, but it plays much more harmonic and the textures are not as sharp as on the other side.
The 3 dimensionality is also bigger as the stage.
What I also noticed is that I can turn the system down and still hear everything.
Which is not the case with the other direction.
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