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

Showing 6 responses by wolf_garcia

This is an open forum where differing opinions exist. I’m not trying to save anybody from anything, I’m simply stating an opinion based on my own experience and that of many others, and reacting to what I see as nonsense...so Jafreeman...why not try and address some of the things I bring up? Like gear manufacturers ignoring the pseudo science and hyperbole disgorged by the fools who pay through the nose for a fuse. Around here expectation bias meets gigantic egos with alleged "Golden Ears" who are justifiably ridiculed by the sane among us (including engineers of audio gear)...I don’t believe the ridiculous claims, I’ve tested Magic fuses myself and believe me, I’m hardly the only one around here who feels Magic fuses are all a scam to cash in on the gullibility of audio geeks. If I stated that painting the knobs on my preamp with green paint that I payed 150 bucks for made cellos come into focus, I’d get ridiculed...and rightly so.
If "magic" fuses were as obvious a benefit as the bloviating faithful claim they are, every manufacturer of any component with a fuse would enthusiastically recommend them. They don't. 
The point is clearly missed there jafreeman...I guess for the slower among us I should have said "relative to those who know magic fuses are silly snake oil and would never get sucked into 150 bucks for a fuse." I hope that clears it up.
The "list of audiophiles" who believe in Magic Fuses is actually minuscule, as is the number of circuit designers and gear manufacturers who recommend 'em...somehow they're immune to the ranting blather of athletic supporters of silly tweaks. Name any recent review of any piece of gear from any audio magazine that mentions the "special" fuse recommended by the designer...I’ll wait here ready to unrelentingly and thuggishly bully whomever responds, as hey, it’s what I do.
Fuses do not "remove" noise as they're  FUSES...a tiny half inch bit of wire that has to melt when needed. No matter how much hyperbole is ladled out by the Faithful you can't get around the fact that fuses are fuses. Any forward leaping is imagined and displays the power of expectation bias which is why Magic Fuses are not nor will they ever be embraced by the sane vast majority of gearheads.
Del Maguey Vida Single Village artisanal Mezcal is superb...loosen that MAGA hat Millercompost...also "special" fuses are nonsense as they can’t, and won’t, do anything except possibly explode as one SR fuse did when I tested a pile a while back. Thinking magic fuses are sonically relevant is like claiming your gas cap makes your car faster...it never would and never will, regardless of how much hyperbole and bloviation is applied.