NEW PROTOTYPE FUSES COMING >>>

oregonpapa

Yes! the Pioneer Elite 59-AVi is a very fine player. Will you trade out any Fuse(s) in that spinner ?

Happy Listening!

oregonpapa"
The new prototype fuses arrived in yesterday’s mail. For last night’s listening session, I replaced the SR Orange fuse in the line stage with one of the new prototypes. The results? ... It killed the SR Orange fuse in every respect. There was a BIG improvement in overall clarity from top to bottom. And the midrange ... the midrange ... Zowie!"

So transparent. Of course it did, that was going to be a given

oregonpapa
"I have Mister Golden Ears coming over tomorrow to take a listen. He’s a very critical listener."

Really!! you said "It killed the SR Orange fuse in every respect"
So then why do you need Mr Golden Ears to convince you of what your hearing.

jetter
"It’s a little ironic. The mantra used to be that the improvement in sound from the addition of audiophile fuses was the equivalent of buying a new component."

This is all that one needs to know

cerberus79
"A few months ago I purchased a used pair of speakers from another Agon member.To my surprise all the fuses were Orange fuses.
I listened to them and then to satisfy my curiosity I replaced them with ordinary buss fuses and could not hear a difference.
I did this test with a bunch of friends and neither I or them could hear a difference.
Kind of just says it all doesn’t it?"

To those non technical thinking of purchasing these $$$ fuses. Just save your $150+ and do this instead.
A fuse:
1: two end caps
2: short piece of fuse wire connecting the two end caps through a glass tube (that’s all she wrote).

To those "non technical" members that are interested in "maybe" wasting their money, do not listen to the non-technical, listen to the technicians of this industry that design the audio products you have and listen to.
AND YOU WON"T SEE THEM ON THREADS LIKE THIS AGREEING WITH WHAT SAID HERE ABOUT THE SOUND IMPROVMENT DETAILS AND AC FUSE PLACEMENT DIRECTION, EVER!!!

Just clean and tighten your fuse holder and re-new your fuse (if old) with a good quality 50cent Bussman, Littlefuse or similar.
As with "many switch-on surges" they do deteriorate, bend, stretch and get crusty with electrolysis formations on their fusible wire elements before they give out, as these pics show of a fuse wire element ageing over time show. 

https://ibb.co/9NbTwqK
(even the $$$ boutique ones will age just as much also)

Cheers George

"Excuse me for rambling"

Oregonpapa,
I'm  55, and hope to someday reach your age, still enjoying this hobby and having the clarity of mind you do Sir.

Wow that is some story. My grandfather was a sharecropper. In the hierarchy of human misery sharecropper is one step up from slave. Brutal life, apparently too much for him, he ran off when my dad was still a child. Dad was so ashamed of being a sharecroppers son I never knew any of this until after he passed. Rural Florida, okay, it was a swamp. Last time down there grandma went out back and got a bullfrog for dinner with her slingshot. I couldn't even see what she was aiming at but she nailed it first try. Long time ago forget the details but pretty sure it wasn't frog legs Italian style.

Yeah they come 2 to a pack. So six all together. All 6 are on the Raven. Real smooth and natural, just like what you describe about your new fuses. The noise floor with all the stuff I have now is so low it is spooky the stuff you can hear.

@mllercarbon do you have a link to these stones? I have a Blackhawk Mk3.1 too. Have you compared the stones to MiG 2.0s? My Blackhawk is also on an SR Tranquility Basik. Thanks.