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SR Blue Fuses

I just wanted to share my excitement with my SR Blue Fuses. I installed 3 in my Anthem I225. Its been probably 100 hours of burn in time now and I really am beside myself in the difference. The bass is really full, my highs are nicely extended and my soundstage is huge. Just today, my soundstage became ridiculous.
If you are happy with your current amplifier / preamplifier and intend on keeping it for awhile I highly recommend replacing the fuses with SR Blue fuses, if not the Orange fuses. I got my Blues for 30% off. It is quite possibly the best tweak I have done aside from room treatments.

It takes awhile to burn the fuses in but once they are, it’s pretty awesome the difference they make. I was pretty skeptical about this mod and thought it was a lot to spend but now that I have, it was the best $400 mod I have done. It made more of a difference than my upgraded power cords and actually probably made a more of a difference than going from my signal cable silver res speaker cables to my ap solo crystals.

Highly recommended if you already love your amp/preamp and intend to keep them for awhile!
b_limo

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fleschler
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This forum is for relating the positive experience one audiophile had using boutique fuses.  Posters relating how stupid we are for believing b_limo and his positive experiences are wasting everyone's time.   I guess that's why we call them trolls.   They have nothing positive to add. 
When you speak negatively about someone, it doesn't reflect the person; it reflects you and your own insecurity. The best types of people in the world do not have time to badmouth others; they know the value of their words. We learned early on that if you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say it at all-Trolls.
fleschler
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john_g  A 5% difference in rating should not be a problem.  Phone SR if you want confirmation.  My amps are rated for 5 amp fuses but require 8 amp due to their enormous storage caps which have a huge inrush which popped the 5 amp fuses.  (SR exchanged the blown fuses for the appropriate ones). 

My amp designer friend who has NO tweaks in his system immediately heard the difference in my monoblock amps he designed using the blue SR fuse over the 5 amp Littlefuse (a new one too).  He decided (he's cheap) to install 5 amp breakers to replace the fuses.   His amps sound about as identical to mine as we can tell.   Whatever it is, the cheap fuses are INFERIOR in our amps than SR fuses.   The blue fuse sounded great immediately without the mandatory 72 hours the black fuse required to stabilize.  I also use the blue fuse in my heavily modded Dynaco ST70 and that is a substantial improvement over other fuses.  
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