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Synergistic Red Fuse ...

I installed a SR RED Quantum fuse in my ARC REF-3 preamp a few days ago, replacing an older high end fuse. Uhh ... for a hundred bucks, this little baby is well worth the cost. There was an immediate improvement upon installation, but now that its broken in (yes, no kidding), its quite remarkable. A tightening of the focus, a more solid image, and most important of all for my tastes, a deeper appreciation for the organic sound of the instruments. Damn! ... cellos sound great! Much improved attack on pianos. More humanistic on vocals. Bowed bass goes down forever. Next move? .... I'm doing the entire system with these fuses. One at a time though just to gauge the improvement in each piece of equipment. The REF-75se comes next. I'll report the results as the progression takes place. Stay tuned ...

Any comments from anyone else who has tried these fuses?
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schubert
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Agree with EARLY Carmen McRae , best singing I ever heard was on a Decca LP from ’"57 with Ray Bryant on piano .
Her voice was as clear as a mountain spring and perfect in every aspect .

As to old voices giving out , Tony Bennett may not be quite what he once was but he can sell a song better than ever and is not just a walk down memory lane .

I never did understand why Torme was so underrated .

I know its heresy but I always thought Sarah was better than Ella.
To me, and of course says more about me than Ella, as beautiful as her voice was I always felt like she would rather be somewhere else doing something else, while Sarah seemed like there was no where else she’d rather be or nothing else she would rather be doing ..


schubert
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Good is the enemy of the best.
 Good-enough is the enemy period .
 The main job of old-men is to impart the wisdom of truth to others , and for
 that you need to be as "elite" as possible !
 If you told a teen the Beetles are as good as Bach, you'd need your mouth
washed out with soap .
 What could be considered an "open-mind " at 18 would be an empty mind at  80 .
schubert
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charles1 dad, you’ll never know how much you post meant to me .
In my not very humble opinion what Sarah and Carmen both had in common was everything thay did was an act of love for both the music and the musicians they made it with . Sun-Ra once told me Sarah was the most beloved singer among jazz-men,as a person, he ever met .
Carmen was a lover of a world which broke her heart over and over .
She fought on. . Lovers are a takes one to know one thing . Simple .
P. S .
Just between us, a footnote to the "I never understood why Torme was such an underrated singer" . It puzzles me why people think that Patrica Barber IS a singer .
schubert
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There are indeed all kinds of art . Most of what passes for it currently is of little positive value either for the individual or society in general .

schubert
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And we like what we like in music because in varying degrees it is what we are . The variance is in whether we like the way it makes us feel inside or whether it makes us want to reach out to others including God.
A map of our self . 



  
schubert
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One artist is better than another and God knows it . God made us but not as puppets on a string, our choices form us in the end .
I would feel foolish if  I was afraid to talk about the ultimate reality .
schubert
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I have common ground with every human being on the planet .
I don’t push my points to win any arguments but because I love everybody including wolf-garcia whose posts don’t bother me personally whatsoever .
As Augustine said " Music is Gods greatest gift to mankind, save his son " .
schubert
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There is no bad place to discuss God .
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