NEW PROTOTYPE FUSES COMING >>>

slaw ...

• "Are any of your previous fuse findings based on pasting with PPT?"
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The QSA Yellow fuse that is/was in the phono stage was evaluated both ways ... with Total Contact and without. Putting TC on the endcaps seemed to calm the midrange down a bit and put a little more meat on the bones. Both ways, the QSA Yellow fuse sounded dynamic, transparent, went deep in the bass, but I still can’t get around that thin (for lack of a better word) midrange.

So for tonight’s listening session, I replaced the QSA Yellow fuse in the phone stage for one of the prototype fuses. The result? ... The midrange is back in spades. The sound stage is huge and the musicality is really something special.

So at this point, I have an SR Orange fuse in the amp, a prototype fuse in both the line and phono stage. Things are sounding amazing.

Tomorrow, I will replace the SR Orange fuse in the Amp for one of the prototype fuses. That will put prototype fuses in all three pieces of the electronics. We’ll see what happens.

I received another QSA Yellow fuse in today’s mail. So, after tomorrow’s listening session, I will replace the two prototype fuses that will be in the line stage and amp with the QSA Yellow fuses. Stay tuned.

Frank

oregonpapa

I would be interested in reading about a Fuse-Shootout involving your ARC cd player.

Happy Listening!

millercarbon ...

Thanks for your vote of confidence. I'm trying my best to report what I'm hearing as accurately as possible. My only goal here is to tweak my system to the Nth degree possible and then to share the results with the rest of the members here.

For the naysayers, there is no monetary reward. The reward comes at the end when the system sitting in my living room becomes transformed into this incredible magic music machine like it did tonight. I had a friend over, someone who knows my system very well, and the guy was flabbergasted by what he heard. Me too. 

Frank

jafant ...

"I would be interested in reading about a Fuse-Shootout involving your ARC cd player."

I wish I could tell you. The CD-7se had a laser failure and I haven't used it in over a year. I'm using a modified Pioneer Elite DV-59AVi DVD player that I found in almost new condition. I had Grover Huffman do the modifications, and I have to say, I think it runs circles around the ARC unit. Grover is THE man. 

Frank

Mighty impressive Frank especially in light of the prototype being new while QSA and SR have lots of hours.