Appreciate all the feedback here and in other places
More and more manufacturers have taken serious note. We are helping where we can here.
We will have some optional Sluggos here this week. Will update once they arrive
Thanks to all of you for your Early Adopter Strength
Here to help - or you can always e-mail at verafiaudiollc@gmail.com
Best wishes - Mark
FUSE BOX delivers perfect protection and superior sound
Encouraged by the improvement offered by the PURON plug-in filters, I spent some additional time reading
I wondered if a second product, unrelated to PURON, can also raise the bar for recorded music? FUSE BOX is a system that replaces a fuse in a piece of electronics. A metal SLUGGO (insert either the brass or copper option) goes in the fuse holder. The power cord you have been using goes into one end of the slim, lightweight BOX. From the other end of the BOX, another power cord (quality counts!) leads to your power conditioner or to the wall. Simply plug and play.
Each FUSE BOX is calibrated according to the traditional fuse it will be replacing. By providing the amp value, fuse size, and slow/fast blow, a unit can be tailored to your specs.
I took the plunge by requesting a FUSE BOX to fit into two different systems. I use a Black Ice FOZ SS-X Sound Expander in both a headphone (Synergistic blue) and main system (Synergistic orange). This wonderful piece is in the middle of both systems, between the cd player and the amplifier.
Starting first in the smaller system, there was a break-in period of about 30 hours before the sound really took off. A huge positive step (for me) was then replacing the copper sluggo with the brass version. Now I heard the depth and warmth, in addition to the detail of the copper version. The traditional Grado sound through the over the ear headphones (Prestige 125 model) was rich, detailed, and balanced.
I spend much more time listening through full range Martin Logan Expression ESL 13a speakers. I recently added two PURONS to this system, plugged into a Synergistic Research Powercell 12 conditioner. Even when (intellectually) I believed this combination had already taken me to the "top of the mountain," I was happy to be proven wrong. With the brass sluggo in the SS-X, the "you are at the recording event" is very powerful, and in a way I had never heard before. It's like I have the best seat in the house, for every recording.
For me, FUSE BOX offers the protection of traditional fuses, without fearing they may need to be replaced (since FUSE BOX can be easily reset). With the two sluggos provided, the sound can be adjusted to one's preference. And I still have the flexibility to change this arrangement in the future, as the sluggo is never permanently fixed to the fuse holder.
A big thanks to Mark Schifter at Vera-Fi Audio, for patiently helping me. With a 30 day return policy, my guess is that many music lovers will be asking Mark to program a unit, so they can evaluate it in their systems.
My answer, to "how can the sound possibly get any better?" is FUSE BOX. Highly recommended.
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I spent a few minutes polishing the copper sluggos with a connoisseur’s polishing cloth (gold) until they were visibly shinier and installed them earlier this afternoon. My system is sounding better than ever with the polished copper, making the brass sound lifeless by comparison. I’ve had a list of errands to do today and it’s now 7:50 PM and I’m listening through my 4th album. My Vandersteen speakers are producing bass I didn’t know they were capable of in my large listening room. Deep, tuneful bass I can feel in my chest. The impact is much more noticeable than it was before. The soundstage is clearly defined from front to back and left to right, better than I’ve ever heard it. I feel like I’m hearing the rear corners of the stage with less distortion than ever. related thoughts: -The power cables feeding my best equipment (and plugged into the fuse box) are quite a bit better and more costly than the ones I’m running into the fuse boxes. I expect there is more to be gained there, albeit at a much higher cost than the fuse box itself. It’s worth doing though, the price/performance ratio on the fuse box is better than every other aftermarket product I have in my system. -As someone mentioned above, I feel that the fuse holder in the equipment is, itself, a big part of the problem. A high quality jumper wire bypassing the fuse holder would almost certainly lead to a substantial improvement. I’m not comfortable doing that to my favorite gear (yet, anyway). -My next step is to apply some contact enhancer and see what that does. I’m planning to use this, unless anyone has an argument for something else performing better. Bullfrog: |
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