NEW PROTOTYPE FUSES COMING >>>


I’ve been asked to evaluate/beta test some new fuses that will be coming out soon. I should have them as soon as this coming Saturday.

At this point:

1. I cannot reveal the name of the manufacturer of the fuses.
2. I do not know what the retail price will be.
3. I do not know what the name of the fuse will be.

For comparison purposes, I have a full complement of SR Orange fuses that can be used throughout the system. I have one QSA Yellow fuse now being used in my ARC-PH8 phono stage, with another one to arrive soon to be used in my ARC REF-75se.

I’ll be comparing the SR Orange fuses, and the QSA fuses, with the new prototype fuses. I’ll also be using the ears of three of my well-seasoned audiophile friends, as well as my own to make the evaluations. These guys are all truth-tellers that I have full confidence in.

According to the manufacturer, these new fuses are real game-changers, so stay tuned.

Frank
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"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. 
Fuses make a difference, everything matters and makes a difference. The audiophile fuses are there to do the least damage, well less damage than a cheap standard fuse anyway.


It is amazing though that the improvements are reported to be so so ... huge. I can hear the change in direction of a standard fuse in my system and hear the effect of replacing said fuse with a better one so decided to listen to what must then be the best 'fuse' possible: no fuse. The amp I tried this experiment in now runs permanently fuseless. The zero fuse betters all others I have tried but the difference between standard and no fuse is not as great as some here make out!


Take oregonpapa and his reporting of everything PPT. Whenever he added paste to a connection he reported a lower noise floor and then describes the sound of this particular pasting and then with the next paste of whatever hears another amazing lowering of the noise floor and on and on until it reaches the point of defying credulity. It is from his persuasive enthusing that I bought some PPT products. First thing I did was place 2 mats inside my breaker panel. Over a few days the sound became progressively worse, by which I mean the sound hardened up and took on a screechy brash upper register. Things did not improve when I started treating contacts with the paste.


The number of times he reported 'a lowering of the noise floor' seems impossible to me. The noise must be so low now that there is nothing anymore.
The moral of this story is to perhaps treat with a little caution this gentleman's gushing effusive praise.

lemonhaze >>>

"The moral of this story is to perhaps treat with a little caution this gentleman's gushing effusive praise."

I'm sorry you didn't get much out of the PPT products. You are one of the very few that were disappointed that I know of. Everyone else raved about the products and they still are by the way. I noticed that you haven't listed your system in your profile. Are you using any Bybee products? Are you using any magnets in the system ... anywhere? 

Frank