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SR Blue Fuses

I just wanted to share my excitement with my SR Blue Fuses. I installed 3 in my Anthem I225. Its been probably 100 hours of burn in time now and I really am beside myself in the difference. The bass is really full, my highs are nicely extended and my soundstage is huge. Just today, my soundstage became ridiculous.
If you are happy with your current amplifier / preamplifier and intend on keeping it for awhile I highly recommend replacing the fuses with SR Blue fuses, if not the Orange fuses. I got my Blues for 30% off. It is quite possibly the best tweak I have done aside from room treatments.

It takes awhile to burn the fuses in but once they are, it’s pretty awesome the difference they make. I was pretty skeptical about this mod and thought it was a lot to spend but now that I have, it was the best $400 mod I have done. It made more of a difference than my upgraded power cords and actually probably made a more of a difference than going from my signal cable silver res speaker cables to my ap solo crystals.

Highly recommended if you already love your amp/preamp and intend to keep them for awhile!
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georgehifi
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To those not very technical who are considering these snake oil products. Save your money and put it toward a real upgrade of equipment instead.

As it’s always the same old SR persistent shillers, that come back to these threads time and time again to spruik about the "incredible sonic benefits" of installing a >$100 blue or whatever fuse in place of the manufacturers 50cent one.
And then have the hide to say the newer more expensive one when it comes out has even more "incredible benefits" than the $150 one.

Don’t be gullible, and see where this is going. It’s like a malignant cancer. NO Electronic Engineer worth his salt will back this snake oil, and the benefits these shillers claim there are with these snake oil products.

Cheers George
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uberwaltz
13,381 posts
 
Instead of the SR Blue fuses, I have found putting a 10 gauge solid silver wire in place of the fuse gives excellent PRAT.  Just sayin 😂
What?
Who can afford solid silver wire!
A nice rusty old nail will do nicely......

On a more sort of serious note, I owned a Honda VFR800 a few years back I bought well used with 47k miles on it but it still rode great. One day about 80 miles from home(of course!), it just quit totally.
Spent a few minutes checking basics then removed seat and started looking for fuses, relays etc.
Well guess what! I found the MAIN fuse had been "repaired" with silver foil wrapped around the end caps of the who knows how long ago blown fuse.......
Do NOT try this stunt at home children!
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jafreeman
689 posts
 
The mid and tweeter in Maggies are fused. The fuses are part of the signal path.  There's a long-held, well-documented practice of removing this fuse bank altogether or at least bridging the fuse holders with a solid piece of silver for improved sound.  Then the audiophile fuses came along to provide another option, and you would be amazed just how much nicer the speakers sound. They are like an extension of nicer speaker cables. I have had HiFi Tuning, Furutech, SR 20, SR Red, SR Black and SR Blue fuses in. Each was a small improvement, with the SR Black and then Blues far and away the largest leaps forward.  There are others out there I have not tried--not schilling for one brand, just ended up there.
 For the AC mains in my amps, subs and CDP, all have improved clarity  with these fuses.  In this position, I compare them to an extension of the audiophile power cable.  The current travels through the fuses, and there must be a level of noise removed by the better fuse using graphene, better fuse body, end caps, etc.  
All I know is what I hear.  
  
wolf_garcia
6,722 posts
 
Fuses do not "remove" noise as they're  FUSES...a tiny half inch bit of wire that has to melt when needed. No matter how much hyperbole is ladled out by the Faithful you can't get around the fact that fuses are fuses. Any forward leaping is imagined and displays the power of expectation bias which is why Magic Fuses are not nor will they ever be embraced by the sane vast majority of gearheads.
tommylion
874 posts
 
It’s disgusting that there are two posters who continue to be allowed to jump on every thread that even mentions fuses, and proceed to dump their bilge on it ad nauseam. I’m sure they take a tremendous amount of perverse pride in getting these threads shut down. So much for the free exchange of ideas and information. Sad, very sad.
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