What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses?


I live in California and a couple of weeks ago we had strange lightning storms that started the many fires burning in the State.  It also fried the fuse in my Pass XA30.5.  I got the amp second hand and it came with a SR Blue fuse.  I called Pass and they recommended a very cheap fuse which I ordered and installed.  Because I was curious, I took the SR sticker off the old burnt out fuse and found that it was a very cheap SIBA brand fuse underneath.  It is clear that SR is either not making the ceramic casing for this fuse or using the SIBA fuse and then doing stuff to it.  At the very worst, it's just slapping a sticker on it and charging a ton more

The thing is, I'm pretty sure I could hear a difference for the worse when I installed the cheap glass fuse post lightning storm.  Could it be that SR is modifying an existing fuse to make it sound better?  Maybe some more technically minded folks here on the forum could help me understand

thanks!
adam8179
I guess I'm just interested in what they are doing to that cheap SIBA fuse to make it sound so good?

From what I gather they "stroke it"😜, and hope it doesn't blow🤣, apparently some do because they've "maybe it said " been cryo'd and weakened, so instead of being say 2A they are now maybe 1.5A rating 

Cheers George
People are born into projection. Logic is not a given, it is thing that people have to learn.

Logic is an idea, a conceptual position in a reality built out of emotionally controlled and re-projected bits of deeply colored perception.

All of reality is subjective, objectivity is an idea proposed in the attempt of the mind to find it’s way to proposing logic. To refine and distill analysis.

Objectivity does not exist. It is a conceptual state that is forced, and wholly unnatural. It stands on the shoulders of an entirely subjective edifice and bedrock.

What does that say about science?

It says the same derisive comment (in an unspoken kinder fashion) that Edward Bernays said to all the people that his emotionally oriented methodologies were targeted to bend, which numbered into the eventual billions: "Don’t be Stupid."

As for science and the whole objective vs subjective reality we face. Science says: ’Observation Is King". That everything starts with observation.

Follow the logic of this, does one?

I dearly hope so, as the next step is not ’emotionally comfortable’, for some... in how it proposes the mind may position itself, where...

It does not mean that projection in science can dismiss observation. Nor does it say that illiteracy and lack of intelligence can propose a mental shortcut to dismissal, in the face of a thing the lesser intellect and lesser capacity cannot attempt to understand.
Another +1 on a whole house surge protector!  I had one put in in three years ago after issue$.

Also live in NoCal. On Aug 16 we had 2.5 hours of a nasty brownout. Many around here had issues, some very co$tly.

My Amp is plugged into power conditioner despite advice to plug in to wall directly  I have tried to hear a difference.. purported clipping etc at high volumes and never have.

Not sure where in California you are but around here (sac area) more brown outs are predicted.

If you haven't guessed already.....Brown outs can also zap your gear..Big time. 
So pretty much nobody really interested in what they are doing with the fuse. Meanwhile, back at the millercarbon ranch, while you all carp and cavil he’s applying all the little things you all work so hard to dismiss and getting sound that is to die for.

graphene, diamond dust  (12-1600), and a dab of nuclear never seize, thin it with mineral spirits for a slow dry, and or lacquer thinner for quick dry.

Paint the silly thing, and let it settle in the working position for a while, let the fumes evaporate if you just painted it, or turn it on and blow your face off. :-) DON’T DO THAT... DON’T BLOW YOUR FACE OFF. Unless your real ugly. Thats a preference of mine, I like ugly. :-)

Back to the lab/shop/basement/bunker/PLACE...

Regards