Synergistic Red Fuse ...

I don’t need any convincing about fuses, having tried HI-Fi Supreme and Acme before settling on Furutech’s and their GTX (R) outlets for the past year and a half. From that perspective, I’ve been working my way through this thread day by day, but to jump ahead and ask now: Is the recommendation for blacks still to go up a value on the slow-blow’s? I’m talking about a couple of dacs that take 1A and powered speakers that take 2A and 5A. Don’t know about the Oppo 103 and 203, as I haven’t opened either yet. 

Btw, I've found the greatest thing about this thread, even better than the good fuse discussion, have been all the suggestions about artists and recordings. Many thanks,

Thanks for your replies. Over in the PS Audio fuse thread, one commenter has been rather vehement in arguing that SR fuses are very tilted and wrong sounding, accentuating the leading edge of transients over the natural bloom of instrumental texture and color. He claims the Audio Magic SHM beeswax fuse buries the SR black. What’s struck me in reading this Agon thread - and other comments on the PS Audio one - is that no one else has suggested anything similar about the Black. What he describes could be only relative, but normally shouldn’t need an A-B test to hear on the quality of equipment many here are using.

fleschler, not here! George, if you think that those of us who claim that fuses can make a difference are just gullible, why are spending your time here? In any case, you've made your point, so please move on. 

mapman, the test is what you hear. If that hasn't changed, what's the point? Sure, read on if you want to see if an explanation about fuses pops up that satisfies you, and then maybe the jump back in. But even if it did/does, that still wouldn't change what you hear.  

As I wrote, I’ve been working my way through this thread, now at page 22. There’s something I would have written then, an observation - not mediation - that still seems relevant. Namely, lay off mapman - and mapman, what are you still doing here? As to the first, mapman was very clear that he did not hear the differences most others were reporting, and that in his approach he is uncomfortable with changes, e.g., tweaks, that can’t be sufficiently explained, at least to his thinking. That’s a perfectly principled opinion, but wasn’t accepted; a few frequent contributors made clear they weren’t going to let it go. There may be no cult or perhaps clique here, but some people sure started to act like it. And here we are, a few dozen web pages and many months later, and it’s still going on! It’s almost as if there’s little or nothing to talk about if the exchange doesn’t keep on. Which leads to a second observation, really a question: mapman, having come to your conclusion, why didn’t you move on? Perhaps there’s something in the 45 ensuing pages that explains why this continues, but from the discussion now it sure reads like a process - more like a sore - that’s built on itself. In any case, it doesn’t make for pleasant, informative or thought provoking reading to this new entrant (who has three blacks on order to see first how they do in my nearfield desktop system vs. Furutechs).

" Hello Highstream, 
Although I’ve had no blown Black fuses (slo blo) in my components I believe as others have stated,  moving up 1 step for ampere rating is an acceptable practice. 
Charles"

The question I have at the moment whether or not it's necessary - or very prudent - to go up based on people's experience. I only pose it this way at the moment because I've come across a pair of used Blacks at a good price that match the specs of soon to arrive bi-amped active speakers. Thanks,

Just installed a pair of Blacks today in Quad 12L actives, replacing Furutech fuses.  Noticed some pleasant differences straight out of the box in a few senses. Look forward to what shows after burn in.  Of course, the thing about checking direction with two powered speakers is that there are four possibilities. although I have a sense that one speaker is performing better than the other.

For anyone interested, I have an 1.25A SR Black Fuse that I never used and now no longer need. If you want to know more, message me.