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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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uberwaltz
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Ears burning?
wolf_garcia
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If "magic" fuses were as obvious a benefit as the bloviating faithful claim they are, every manufacturer of any component with a fuse would enthusiastically recommend them. They don't. 
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jafreeman
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Wolf, you're in a large room, full of hundreds of audiophiles. All are talking about the sonic improvements they are hearing with specialty fuses.  You go from person to person, insisting to each they cannot be hearing improved sound.  Some disagree, some laugh, but you continue on, emphatic in your belief, repeating, "It's a fuse!"  You are determined to save them from their mass delusion.   None take you seriously, though.  After all, they are in agreement, enthused with what they are hearing.  You suddenly stop--you stare out at this crowd, and a realization slowly overtakes you: It is you, not they, who suffers from delusion.        
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georgehifi
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You're in a large room, full of hundreds of audiophiles. All are talking about the sonic improvements they are hearing with specialty fuses.
Who said they are?? you???
And where are the double the amount of audiophiles that say there's no sonic improvement?? you didn't even mention them???
Your full of **** if you think that that's an analogy, if you think that "could" happen. What a 🤏
wolf_garcia
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This is an open forum where differing opinions exist. I’m not trying to save anybody from anything, I’m simply stating an opinion based on my own experience and that of many others, and reacting to what I see as nonsense...so Jafreeman...why not try and address some of the things I bring up? Like gear manufacturers ignoring the pseudo science and hyperbole disgorged by the fools who pay through the nose for a fuse. Around here expectation bias meets gigantic egos with alleged "Golden Ears" who are justifiably ridiculed by the sane among us (including engineers of audio gear)...I don’t believe the ridiculous claims, I’ve tested Magic fuses myself and believe me, I’m hardly the only one around here who feels Magic fuses are all a scam to cash in on the gullibility of audio geeks. If I stated that painting the knobs on my preamp with green paint that I payed 150 bucks for made cellos come into focus, I’d get ridiculed...and rightly so.
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