The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses

@jwmazur

Interesting post.  I now have a collection of SR fuses that are worthless.  I guess they go to my fuse grave.  I understand technology but I can not be switching fuses every 18 months.  That is one of the reasons I like QSA.

So here is a question....if you have multiple different fuses in your system, how do you know which one is really making the impact on your sound?   Let me give you an example.  I have an SR orange in my Music Server, and my DAC and my mono amps and pre-amp.  I went to QSA yellow one component at a time.  After changing the source which was my Lampi Pacific, I did not hear any change.  After a couple of weeks, I added it to the Pre-amp.  Again not much of a change.  I finally added to the monoblocks.  Once I had the same fuse in all of my components did I hear a noticeable difference.  

Based on my experience, I would find it hard to believe, that if you only placed an upgraded fuse in only one component, you would hear a difference.  Now I am also of the opinion that upgraded fuses will help lower-end systems more than high end systems but that is another debate.  

Thoughts?

willgolf I now have a collection of SR fuses that are worthless. I guess they go to my fuse grave.

 

I was afraid of that willgolf. This is why I asked the OP exactly what things changed so I could get an idea what they would do to my system.

But all I got was a lot of

In my system, they are a significant improvement over the SR Orange fuses.

The three SR Purple fuses in my system are fully broken in at this point. They replaced three SR Orange fuses that were being used before.
The sound has never been better.
I compared the SR Orange, the SR Purple, and the QSA Yellow fuses in the system. While very good in the detail department, even better than the SR Orange fuses, the QSA Yellow fuses just didn’t have the musicality of the SR Orange and Purple fuses. We are talking about moving beyond "etched or darker," and moving into the realm of "real" here. I mean, reach out and touch them, real.

To me that’s not the answer I’m looking for. Thanks Andy