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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
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millercarbon
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Relax, players. Like I said, cakyol is NPC.
cal91
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I had to look up "NPC". Apparently it's a favorite insult of Trump supporters. From what I read it is directed towards someone who does not think for themself. How does this apply to cakyol? I don't agree with him on fuses because I heard a significant improvement when I changed out the original fuses and replaced them with SR Blues. Others have talked about the fact that the improvement might have been due to making better contact with the fuse holder. I can't say one way or the other. But there was an improvement that I had not expected. So while I disagree with cakyol on this, he seems to think for himself. Unless there is another definition for NPC that I am not aware of, and really not interested in, I don't see how it applies to cakyol. I would still like cakyol to answer my questions.
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Insult is the armor of an outsize ego
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Amazon is hosting jobs ( programs ) that run on Quantum computers..... simple stuff like Lagrange non linear optimization....

there is much we understand and probably more we don’t as yet


spenav
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@cal91Don’t get too upset about this thing. You tried it an formed an opinion based on what you experienced. Cakyol has to do the same, then he will know. In this field, there are a lot of things that don’t make sense but work. Just make sure you get a money back warranty because it’s easy for dishonest people to mislead the uninitiated. Some decades ago, I bought a $20 Monster power strip to protect my modest system from lightning and to my surprise, the bass from my cheap sub went from substandard to great. I couldn’t believe it. So I disconnected the strip and the bass went back to crap  I knew then, that they were things that are unexplained but true. The last six feet couldn’t change the power characteristic they say. Yet, here I was. 
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