NEW PROTOTYPE FUSES COMING >>>

jetter >>>

"... is there a chance that the actual ambient noises of the recording studios or live performance halls are what is being reduced?"

Not a chance. What is being reduced is electronic hash/noise from the AC entering the system. What that does is allow one to listen in to the recording more. Last night I was listening to a live Fleetwood Mac recording and was really taken by how present the venue was. I also played a studio recording of a jazz combo, and again, the recording venue was clearly defined.  In an earlier post, I mentioned a Bud Shank flute/Koto recording where it was like the Koto player was sitting on the floor to the rear and left of the left speaker. As I said, these tweaks, including the new prototype fuses are all working to get me closer to the music, the musicians, and the instruments they play. 

Frank

1. From the above, it sounds like EQ and / or slight deltas in head position
   
2. given that all speakers have a certain amount of inertia and below a very low threshold, do not move. Since the speakers must be moving differently to have audible deltas, with a 32 bit A/D it should be child's play to digitize the speaker feed and show the GVF* vs GPF** delta.
   

* - Garden Variety Fuse
** - Gold Plated Fuse

I think there's at least two different things going on Frank. The Gate and a lot of Krissy's stuff I think of as more of a sink than a filter. Can't be a filter in the normal sense because nothing goes through it. It is not in the circuit, at least not in the normal way we understand a circuit. She will probably have a heart attack but I have explained this a few times and it is so alien to our understanding of electricity I have total confidence in being able to explain it clear as day and yet no one gets it. The Gate is an open circuit. A lot of this stuff is. Shouldn't even work. But it does.   

Then there is your Mat, your QSA Stones (which I just tried last night) and other stuff that is even less of a circuit. This is stuff that just lays there sort of close and therefore can only act via field control. Everything electrical has a magnetic field which is why it is called an electromagnetic field the one goes with the other they are one and the same we just like to divide stuff up even when it is the same thing.  

This brings us to the fuse. How's the fuse gonna filter anything? It could be made of materials used in the first two situations. Something like used in the Stones or Mat - or TC or NPS for that matter. This is in fact what we do when we dab some TC or NPS on the fuse. Nobody ever said it can be only one thing. We can do it all.   

But the main thing I think is going on with the fuse is a massive improvement in power transfer speed.   

You probably already know the way faster hexfred diodes improve detail, image depth and liquidity. Same for higher quality power supply caps. I think the fuse is working the same way. Not filtering, but simply allowing power to flow so much smoother and faster that the resulting sound is clean and free of artifacts. It sounds as if it is filtered even though it is not.  

Anyway, whatever it is and however it works the results are freaking fantastic. I put six of those little Stone things on my Raven last night and it was absofreakinglutely insane! Yes a big part is Claire Marlo and Michael Ruff are superbly recorded. But, come on, man!  🤣🤣😍😍 The improvement, to mix metaphors, was yuge! 🤣🤣 Bigly!😁😍

MC >>>

" Anyway, whatever it is and however it works the results are freaking fantastic. I put six of those little Stone things on my Raven last night and it was absofreakinglutely insane!"

See ... that’s what I mean. Just when we think we have it nailed, along comes another product to prove how wrong we were. That’s what the prototype fuses are doing here.

On the "stones" --- I know they come in two packs and that there are three varieties. So, are you using all three varieties or all the same? Also, where are you placing them in order to get the best effects?

Oh, and by the way, the question came up by another A’goner via phone call who wanted to know if I could see inside the prototype fuses. The answer is no. The glass is completely black and can’t be seen through.

Thanks ...

Frank

Well, okay @wolf_garcia, only the sitar ;-). Harrison said he didn’t touch a guitar for a coupla years, and you can hear it. His playing on "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" (both fabulous songs) was great (and on a lot of Revolver, their last excellent album imo), next thing we knew he was writing and playing "Within You Without You", a real nothing of a song. Plus, he was no master of that Indian instrument, just a barely passable dabbler, if that.

Acid (I’ll assume) lead Lennon to think Yoko was an artist, and we got "Number 9". I rest my case! To be clear, I love "Strawberry Fields Forever" (acid drenched though it is), and about half the white album. Sgt. Pepper has a LOT of filler, a vastly over-rated album imo. The Let It Be album is dreadful, unlistenable. By the time of Abbey Road they were in my rear view mirror, left in the dust by The Band, Dylan, Van Morrison, Randy Rewman, Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne, etc. etc. They had over-stayed their welcome with me, and were passed their sell-by date.