Something For The Fuse Guys ...


There are fuses, and then, there are fuses. 

I'm evaluating some prototype fuses that I received in the mail three days ago. 

Over the past few years, I've used fuses from five different manufacturers. The last three were the Red, Black and Blue fuses from Synergistic Research. Each one incrementally improved the sound of my system. My favorite so far was the SR Blue. 

The prototype fuses being evaluated presently raises the SQ beyond all of the others mentioned above. The major improvement to my ears is better tonal accuracy. Instruments and voices are more life-like. The noise is reduced allowing for a more solid 3-D presentation with the musicians more solidly presented on the sound stage. Overall, more information is fleshed out of CDs and LPs. 

The manufacturer, the price and the name of the prototype fuses will come later. I don't have the information thus far. My understanding is, if all works out, the release date is to be mid-October. 

Stay tuned ... 

Frank
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Showing 16 responses by geoffkait

Mapman sez people can draw their own conclusions. Oh, you mean like the 100,000 happy campers who have bought audiophile fuses? Good detective work, Moops! 
Whoa! What the ding ding?! Folks, can you believe it? we have a tie!! Pseudo skeptics 4, fuse apostles 4. We even have wolfman and madman repeating their same dreary claims of “extensive testing” and that nobody has explained how fancy fuses work. Yawn! I’m feeling a little sleepy. Now, get back in there guys and let’s see the feathers fly.
Don’t be a refusenik. Go ape! 🕺Live a little, guys. Try not to be sticks in the mud. As for your friend and humble scribe, I hopped off the AC grid some time ago and never looked back. 👀
The trouble with the professor’s theory of faith healing and mass hallucination is that the number of fuses isn’t just thousands we’re talking about here, folks, but closing in one 100,000. That’s some pretty bad juju if it’s a mass hallucination, professor. In fact, it would almost certainly be the biggest hoax even choreographed and executed by a coordinated group of fraudsters on naive gullible newbies. Most likely we just got us some mule-headed “skeptics” around here.
I haven’t been wrong since 1977. How does it feel being a Human Pincushion? 😬
You beat me to it. But there are obvious reasons why some people will not or do not hear fuses. I actually think they psych themselves out. 😱
wolf_garcia
Fuses don’t and will never have any meaningful effect on a well designed power supply when working to accomplish what fuses are actually designed for (protecting the component from catastrophic failure due to sudden power surges), have zero sonic effect on any signal if working as designed (with clean contact points and proper ratings), and to believe otherwise is silly. This is why very few high end component designers care about "premium" fuses in their products. It takes a lot of purposeful hyperbole to sell snake oil, and if that’s entertainment for anybody, enjoy this space!

>>>>>>Wolfman exposed! Wolfman and clearthink are THE SAME PERSON. 😩 

sidenote - if someone can’t hear the difference fuses make they’re either hearing impaired or their system is all messed up.
mitch22,012 posts09-20-2019 10:58pm@geoffkait
Who’s more demanding - the space program or audiophiles?
If you replace "demanding" with "gullible" what would the answer be?

>>>>>I never bought into that, Hey, let’s go to the Moon and Mars baloney. 
I’m from the future. In the future there are no fuses. There’s a lot less noise and distortion that way as it turns out. I only come back here for the jocularity. All the audio forums in the future are wastelands.
Speaking of which, one wonders how much NASA pays for mission critical fuses and who makes them. And are they just stock Littelfuse fuses? 👩‍🚀 Who’s more demanding - the space program or audiophiles? 😳
I’m getting a strong feeling it was very wise of me to hop off the house AC when I did. No fuse must certainly be better than ANY high end fuse, I don’t care what anybody says. Does that make me a refusenik? 😳