The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses

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  

@ted_denney

Fantastic video. Thank you for sharing that here.

oregonpapa

2nd- The Ramsey Lewis Trio disc.  Good to read that your fuses are fully broken-in.

Happy Listening!

Got an SR purple on the way for my CD transport. I’ve been pretty happy with the QSA light blues in all my gear, and felt they bettered the SR orange. With all the good reports about the SR purple, here and elsewhere, though, I had to give it a try. My transport, unlike my DAC and amp, has no tubes, so I leave it on all the time. That’ll speed up the break-in, so I can get a handle on what the purple does sooner.