@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.
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
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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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 |
jafant ...
I took the lid off and there is no fuse that can be removed. Before I sent the player to Grover, I compared it to my Grover-modified Pioneer Elite DV-05. The DV-05 was better by a large margin. When I got the 59-AVi back from Grover ... Wow! It walked all over the DV-05 ... and also my tube ARC-CD7se. Grover Huffman is the man! Frank |
vgmbpty >>>
Thanks. One thing I'm really thankful for is that the hearing is still really good. My granddaughter is a speech pathologist, and she has checked me out. She says that she's astounded at how well I hear for my age. The mind is still sharp, the hearing is still good, but the body is going in the crapola. Some things that help: I read challenging books, do a lot of crosswords, listen to a lot of music, fool with my record collection a lot ... AND all of my friends are 20-30 years younger than I. That makes a difference. We live in an age where people my age become invisible to the younger set. It's too bad because they could learn a lot from older folks. We not only know history, but we have also lived it. Unfortunately, some of that history is doing a U-turn and is about to bite us in the ass. Most young people are oblivious to it. Too bad for them. They will be paying dearly. Take care ... Frank |
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