SR Blue Fuses
George Charley Hansen of Ayre Acoustics. Because I knew you were full of ka-ka, just like what you and your fuser buddies say about what sound differences fuses can do in a system a load of bull ka-ka |
You're in a large room, full of hundreds of audiophiles. All are talking about the sonic improvements they are hearing with specialty fuses.Who said they are?? you??? And where are the double the amount of audiophiles that say there's no sonic improvement?? you didn't even mention them??? Your full of **** if you think that that's an analogy, if you think that "could" happen. What a 🤏 |
Really!! I knew Charley quite well (rip) when we collaborated in both modding a Wadia Digimaster X64.4 from Jock Homo’s website, he was the furthest from being a vood’ist snake oiler that I could imagine. This I have to see. Please show links where he talks like you fusers do about the sonic advantages a >$150 boutique fuses give. |
For those interested in seeing maybe what shillers are among us, search for threads about fuses, I did and it was "the usual half dozen" that constantly come up for many many pages associated with these voodoo snake oil fuses. Then for also fun I searched the same but this time with posts only from jafreeman. Results were over 20 posts per page and countless pages that I gave up after looking through 10 pages. "Good-on-ya JA your ripping" |
Why would any self respecting audio EE in his or her right mind post a positive take on aftermarket fusesBecause they know it’s snake oil sunshine that’s why! And they sell their products to you guys and don’t want to loose any potential sales. Especially it’s the way you guys go on about what they can do to the sound !! And then especially reversing them in an ac mains environment!! And then there’s the cost!!!! |
I wish everyone would just mind their own beeswax.Seriously!!!! Anyone who buy this needs to be committed! https://youtu.be/YTY26k0CA0I?t=7 Has anyone of the gullible fusers here noticed, there’s not one single audio industry EE guru that posts on Audioogon giving the slightest bit credence to these snake oil fuses. |
Littelfuse got to orange first! Priceless! Really "priceless", that’s bit of a lame fist pump. Yes it’s a $10 more robust low magnetic fuse which means the end caps are brass and not steel, and a thicker glass envelop that’s all, nothing what so ever to do with improving sound as the shillers here preach and have you believe. But definitely look like the they "maybe" the re-badged $160!!!! SR fuses though. Great insane markup if you can get away with it. https://www.digikey.ee/product-detail/en/littelfuse-inc/028506.3HXP/028506.3HXP-ND/2519101 You can get similar in Bussman non magnetic end caps and who knows what colour the ceramic powder is. https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/617188269/set-of-6-brass-fusetron-dual-element |
https://www.fastenal.com/product/electrical/circuit-protection-and-distribution/fuses-and-accessories/ceramic-fuses/604318?categoryId=604318&level=4&isExpanded=true&page=1&pageSize=12&exactSkuMatchLevel=useData&view=0All good quality industry standard fuses that won’t cost you more than a buck or two. Not like the >$150 the boutique SR snake oil fuses do for the same thing. Yes there a couple of $5-$14 special "cartridge" size instrument fuses, which are not your normal sizes of hifi fuses. |
anyone saying anything positive, about certain products they clearly have a personal vendetta against, is properly punished. You need to get it right, snake oiler’s are the ones that need to be the punished. The OP most likely made a mistake as he did on the CDtransport/Streamer thread he started at the same time, because he mistakenly had EQ’ing going on when he thought it was switched out after much hair pulling. |
To those not very technical who are considering these snake oil products. Save your money and put it toward a real upgrade of equipment instead. As it’s always the same old SR persistent shillers, that come back to these threads time and time again to spruik about the "incredible sonic benefits" of installing a >$100 blue or whatever fuse in place of the manufacturers 50cent one. And then have the hide to say the newer more expensive one when it comes out has even more "incredible benefits" than the $150 one. Don’t be gullible, and see where this is going. It’s like a malignant cancer. NO Electronic Engineer worth his salt will back this snake oil, and the benefits these shillers claim there are with these snake oil products. Cheers George |
Even though some of you who have had no actual experience seem to be in a big hurry to dismiss what b_limo is hearing why are you assuming that he is not an experienced critical listener who is intimately familiar with his own system and is obviously very pleased with the improvements the fuses made ? Don’t you think that it’s awfully dismissive to be telling him that he can’t possibly be hearing the better sound that he is actually hearing ?Any EE engineer will tell you it’s impossible (snake oil) for a AC fuse to do this, unless it’s aged like this (linked), then that is debatable also. What you most likely heard was a fuse that’s seen too many turn on cycles, they get fatigued and hardened and build up crusty deposits , like these have with too many turn on cycles.Same "could" be here in some way, maybe with fuse aging. Or what he heard when he started this thread at the same time, but it was tone controls of all things that were the problem, after much anxious hair pulling, re his last 2 posts https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/cd-transport-vs-streamer-2/post?postid=1991316#1991316 https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/cd-transport-vs-streamer-2/post?postid=1991313#1991313 Cheers George |
Having gone through complete sets of SR fuses ... the Reds, the Blacks, the Blues, and now for the past year or so, the Orange fuses, I can say unequivocally that each step along the way has brought new levels of resolution, improved realism, and a more relaxed presentation to my system.Of course it did, especially after you ate the worm.🥴 |
If you can’t hear the difference between a Buss fuse and a SR Blue fuse Naaaaa, ya gotta get this right, it’s more that you don’t have any expectation bias because it wasn’t you that paid >$150 for a 50cent fuse, but your gullible buddy who owns the fuse did poor sod. And just to add before it comes, "AC mains fuses are not directional", as the mains changes it’s direction 60 x a second that why the US it called 60hz mains frequency, in Australia it’s 50hz. Cheers George |
No need to spend $150> on a 0.50cent re-badged fuse save your money Bruce, just replace it with a new same 0.50cent one, from Bussman or Littlefuses. What you most likely heard was a fuse that’s seen too many turn on cycles, they get fatigued and hardened and build up crusty deposits , like these have with too many turn on cycles. Left to right https://ibb.co/G9XGH8Y Right to left https://ibb.co/b5dz1q5 And you should ask admin to move this thread to the Misc Audio forum Cheers George |
