The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses

Here is my beef with SR fuses.  QSA has a directional arrow and directions for which way they go.  SR does not.  My components are not easily accessible.  I have 5 components that they go into.  I have to try one component at a time to see what I hear.  Oh wait there is a long break in period so how do I know if they sound bad?  Then I add another component.  This process could take a month.  I can't put them all in at the same time.  

C'mon SR figure out the proper direction.  QSA did.  You can too. 

You get no argument with me here. And with SR you do have to do one at a time. Nice rigs.

SR would probably sell a heck of a lot more fuses if they took the time to tetst them and put a directioanl arrow on their fuses. It does seem like it would be cost effective as they have to test them anyway? If more people ask...?

The ’directional arrow’ is the direction of text on an SR fuse and is consistent from one fuse generation to the next. Reading left to right direction or signal starts at the beginning of the writing. What is unknown and what cannot be known without a test is the optimal direction in a specific component that will sound best. For this you really need to listen whether you have arrows or text on a fuse. This is because electricity does not *flow* like water but rather energy propagates abov/around the filiment/wire. When our straightforward listen in both directions per individual fuse guidelines are followed with any fuse, optimal performance is achived. Optimal directionality is discovered not for the fuse, but for each component, something that cannot be known until the experiment is performed. Bottomline if you want best performance in your audio system you need to work at it, and this is true for everything, not only fuses.

Perhaps this will help:

Yours in music,

Ted Denney III

Lead Designer/CEO Synergistic Research Inc.

@willgolf 

" 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. "

An entirely plausible hypothesis, the better the internal power regulation etc etc