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Doping your fuse box

As part of improving power to my system and after installing a separate spur I came across two products to improve the separate fuse (junction) box for the spur:

Akiko Audio cylindrical fuse unit: a Siemens design with silver treated contacts, silver coated rod for Neutral and a ceramic fuse containing an Akiko Fuse Tuning Chip. This unit is best installed by a qualified electrician lest you know what you are doing around live mains. It has a major impact on lowering the noise floor, detail retrieval and impulse speed

Akiko Audio Fuse box Pro: attaches to the fuse box’ ground connection and removes hash from the system and substantially improves bass performance. Easily installed and one of the better value for money tweaks out there.

I cannot overemphasize the importance of optimum mains treatment. In big cities the amount of mains borne noise keeps increasing with the number of digital devices connected.

I have no association with the company, just a happy customer.

antigrunge2

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antigrunge2 OP
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@ozzy 

the cylindrical cartridge should be installed by a qualified electrician. The fuse box pro goes on the unified ground rail where there is no live current, hence I did it myself. The effects are very significant in my setup: I have both sit in the junction box for my dedicated spur off the main junction box.

 

antigrunge2 OP
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It is meant to get as close to the fuse box as possible connected to the ground/earth connection of your system. While I obviously defer to Akiko on how it actually works, I believe the purpose to be removal of ground distortions by piezoelectric (crystal) load. Let me know how you get on pls.

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