I’ve replaced all 5 of the SR BLACK fuses in my system with the new SR BLUE fuses. Cold, out of the box, the BLUE fuses stomped the fully broken-in SR BLACKS in a big way. As good as the SR BLACK fuses were/are, especially in comparison with the SR RED fuses, SR has found another break-through in fuses.
1. Musicality ... The system is totally seamless at this point. Its as if there is no system in the room, only a wall to wall, front to back and floor to ceiling music presentation with true to life tonality from the various instruments.
2. Extension ... I’ve seemed to gain about an octave in low bass response. This has the effect of putting more meat on the bones of the instruments. Highs are very extended, breathing new life into my magic percussion recordings. Vibes, chimes, bells, and triangles positioned in the rear of the orchestra all have improved. I’ve experienced no roll-off of the highs what so ever with the new BLUE fuses. Just a more relaxed natural presentation.
3. Dynamics ... This is a huge improvement over the BLACK fuses. Piano and vibes fans ... this is fantastic.
I have a Japanese audiophile CD of Flamenco music ... the foot stomps on the stage, the hand clapping and the castanets are present like never before. Want to hear natural sounding castanets? Get the BLUE fuses.
4. Mid range ... Ha! Put on your favorite Ben Webster album ... and a pair of adult diapers. Play Chris Connor singing "All About Ronnie," its to die for.
Quick .... someone here HAS to buy this double album. Its a bargain at this price. Audiophile sound, excellent performance by the one and only Chris Connor. Yes, its mono ... but so what? Its so good you won’t miss the stereo effects. If you’re the lucky person who scores this album, please post your results here.
Where the RED fuses took about 20 hours to sound their best, and the BLACK fuses took upwards of 200 hours of total break-in, the BLUE fuses sounded really good right out of the box ... and that’s without doing anything about proper directional positioning. Not that the BLUE fuses don’t need breaking in, they do. The improvement continues through week three. Its a gradual break-in thing where each listening session is better than the last.
Everything I described above continues to break new ground in my system as the fuses continue breaking in. Quite honestly, I find it difficult to tear myself away from the system in order to get things done. Its truly been transformed into a magical music machine. With the expenditure of $150.00 and a 30 day return policy there’s really nothing to lose. In my system, its like upgrading to a better pre amp, amp, CD player or phono stage. Highly recommended.
Kudos to Ted Denney and the entire staff at SR. Amazing stuff, guys. :-)
Frank
PS: If you try the SR BLUE fuses, please post your results here. Seems the naysayers, the Debbie Downers and Negative Nellie’s have hijacked the original RED fuse thread. A pox on their houses and their Pioneer receivers.
I want to say thanks! After reading this post and all of the responses, I replaced the SR Red fuses with the new Blue fuses. I only needed two for my Lumin A1 and Simaudio 600i. I've had them in for two weeks now and all of the good things that the members are saying are true for me too. The first thing that I noticed was the drop in the sound floor, bringing out more of the subtle things like string and drum vibrations and the longer decays. It's a great system addition for me.
"The higher in resolution your system becomes, the less you can hear the improvement afforded by any given tweak?" That seems to defy logic to me.
I’ve only heard a couple of systems ... very expensive systems ... that can place the musicians "in the room" in believable three dimensional relief. On my very best recordings, many of which have been recommended in this thread and the RED fuse thread as well, with lights out and eyes closed, my system, with all of its tweaks, place the musicians "in the room." And, I’ve done it for at least one tenth of the money those "very expensive" systems cost.
Some of the tweaks I’ve found successful are:
Room treatments. (tons of stuff) Vibration control. (tons of stuff) Herbie’s tube dampeners. Highly recommended. SR Blue fuses. (5 total) SR Power Cables. Highly recommended. (Level III) Von Gaylord Legend IC’s and speaker cables. (incredible tonal balance) The new, soon to be released secret tweak. (an absolute must!) I can’t wait for some of you to try it out.
The SR Blue fuses combined with the soon to be released "Super Tweak" have finally pushed the system down Alice’s rabbit hole into a surreal world where few audio systems have traveled. Imagine going from a stream with murky water where its difficult to see the bottom of the stream, and then looking down into a crystal clear stream where you can actually see the shapes, colors and textures of the rocks, weeds and boulders submerged 30 feet below.
Again, this phenomenon doesn’t occur on every recording, but on something transferred from a master tape onto a CD for example, it can be uncanny. Just like listening with a side kick known as The Cheshire Cat. I call him Robert. :-)
I sincerely hope your system gets this kind of resolution. If not, there is work to be done.
Can you believe the improvement the Blue fuses have brought to percussion instruments on your recordings? Kettle drums, snares, vibes, piano, bongos ... Wow!
Happy to see stalker no. 1 back in action. When did you get out? By the way, four dimensions are way better than two. Looks like you got short changed.
Over 3,000 $130 fuses sold…I have to wonder what the cost of manufacturing those things actually is, and, although not in the literal sense, there's your boiling vat of snake oil right there!
Developing a product, doing all of the research, taking the financial risk, making payroll, providing a manufacturing facility .... and then selling your product for whatever the market will bear is not morally wrong.
There are two sides to a sale. First, is the seller who sells his/her product for the maximum amount possible. Second, there is the buyer who pays the price if he/she perceives the overall benefit of the product to be worth it. If buyers won't buy at the predesignated price, the price will come down to the actual market value or the seller is going to go out of business. Its called the capitalistic system. In other words, the free market. Should we have a federal department of audiophile fuse pricing to control price levels, or should we continue to allow individuals, the sellers and buyers, to determine end prices? Which way sounds like liberty to you??
Considering the way the SR Blue fuses are selling, and considering how much each fuse does to improve one's system, it looks to me as though Ted Denney has correctly set the retail price at $150 per fuse.
Frank
PS: jafreeman says it exactly how it is: "
Expensive, yes.....but they work as claimed!"
The man is a very talented designer, thinker, innovator, marketer, salesman and communicator. I am impressed with the company and product lines he has formed. True American success story. As Audiophiles we should recognize here is one company that is cutting edge and world class. He has my great respect. Well done.
No thank you - did visit there in the old days, when my wife was doing libray research there on early manuscripts. We had to hunt for all the daily necessities. However, that is not what this is about. This is about the simple fact that in a market economy (and I am fan of the market in most circumstances) not all markets are as transparent as a full competition market.
Would I like to get what these fuses give me for a lower price? Yes, of course, I’m just not into complaining about the price of non-essential entertainment related items. If I think it’s worth it to me, I pay the price. If not, I go without it. In the case of these fuses, I even had the option of getting a refund if they didn’t live up to my expectations.
I am currently running Synergistic Research Galileo LE speaker cables. The MSRP on the pair when I bought them was $17,900. Expensive, Yes. But they are the best sounding cables in my system that I have heard. Makes $150 per fuse seem somewhat insignificant. Especially since I can hear the merits of the SR fuses.
wolf_garcia 3,321 posts 11-16-2017 10:19am Over 3,000 $130 fuses sold…I have to wonder what the cost of manufacturing those things actually is, and, although not in the literal sense, there's your boiling vat of snake oil right there!
Actually Garcia Blue Fuses retail for $149.95 and the video was shot two weeks ago. Orders now exceed 4,000 units. Do the math, we have LOTS of happy customers and SR dealers and to my SR fans a BIG thank you! I will always give you my very best, never stop innovating, and as always, build my products right here in the USA 🇺🇸
Yours in music, Ted Denney Lead Designer Synergistic Research Inc.
Ted Denney, Please. I am a believer in your products. I own your speaker cables. I own your digital interface. Galileo LE, all the way. Please. Explain the technology in your fuses. How do they work? You are talking to a believer. I own a Blue fuse. And a Black fuse. How do they work? We are interested.
SRs biggest bang for the buck are his blue fuses and black duplex outlets. They are equivalent to upgrading either the speakers or amps or both in my system. My audio system costs 8% of the finest system I've heard, the Von Schweikert $290K speakers w/$500K of VAC gear, basically a $1 million system yet yields about 50% of the sound-extremely enjoyable and missing some of the dynamics, 3D soundstage and openness of that system. The SR, Stillpoints and to a much lesser extent but cheap, Herbies products really are cost efficient in obtaining superior audio sound. Choosing the right tubes (can be expensive) and the Shakti Hallographs are more expensive tweaks but equally important as the cheaper tweaks. I thank Ted Denny for making the blue fuse sound great immediately so that I can enjoy my music without burning expensive tubes without benefit.
SRs biggest bang for the buck are his blue fuses and black duplex outlets. They are equivalent to upgrading either the speakers or amps or both in my system.
Mr Denney stated that all his products are built in the USA.. Is that a 100 percent complete and solid statement with the building of the Blue Fuse? Tom
analogluvr - I am an engineer by trade and have worked as an engineer and manager for over 30 years. I have been called upon to testify in court cases as an expert witness on several occasions. I also have been involved with audio as a hobby for over 30 years. I am not new to this. For you to insinuate that I am not hearing what I claim to be hearing is an insult. Feel free to post your own experiences. But do not attempt to tell others what my experiences are or are not.
These synergistic research blue fuses are the single greatest thing for audio in the world it's like I upgraded to a $100,000 amplifier I don't know what a hundred-thousand-dollar amplifier sounds like but I'm sure it sounds especially sounds like these fuses I have an audio file friend that doesn't want to try them cuz he thinks it's like tweaking and I said it's not tweaking it's a component all the people at synergistic research keep doing what you're doing cuz it's incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#!!
I hope you're not talking about me I'm not a troll I've been a member for 4 or 5 years I've just never had anything to say until now I got five of these blue fuses and it's blowing my mind so if you've never tried them yourself obviously you can't make a comment so just an average dude from Canada man.
not a problem but I did mean everything I said I don't know what they're doing down there but at synergistic research but I thought all the other fuses before but these blue ones are like I don't know it's like you upgraded everything in your system so if you haven't got these fuses just try one it'll blow your mind believe me do you have to realize 2 a fuse a cheap glass 10 fuse all the electricity is going through it it's going to vibrate it's going to whatever it's like you spend money on your cables and your power conditioning and all that and then you run it through a $0.30 fuse it only makes sense
I hear you, and all the others who relate how much an upgrade they are over the other fuses. As tempting as it is though, I've just put an order in on a LG OLED TV since my old plasma has turned into a radiator. I haven't had the need to turn on my wall furnace yet this year.
Since Mr. Denney has addressed me directly, I'll respond directly to him. I did hear someplace that your fuses are sourced from China, I suppose we can start there with you addressing that, but I've wondered about the "how and why" of these fuses and asked you to address that directly a few times. More specifically, and without your having to give up what may be some proprietary design secret, could you explain how a tiny fuse that's not an active component could influence the tone of an amp? And what does that fuse actually do? Other than patting yourself on the back for developing a successful product, maybe provide some clarity on these questions. Thanks in advance.
I just got the latest Herbie’s Audio Labs UltraSonic Rx Tube Dampers to replace the old versions I had in my DAC and amp. If anyone else has the old ones, and is wondering, the Rxs are a nice improvement and worth upgrading to, IMO.
@wolf_garcia I've read so many comments about the SR Red, Black and Blue fuses that I can't remember your major position on the topic of SR Fuses. Which of the SR Fuses have you tried in your system, which component, and did you hear an improvement?
Dear Ted…I clearly noted that I "read somewhere" they were made in China, and simply asking you if they were is hardly "fake news." Also, my forum name is simply protecting my privacy as are most of the others here, and you know that. I suppose a "trump-esque" response may seem appropriate these days but as a means of dodging my actual questions regarding your fuses it makes a case regarding your credibility, not mine.
Lak…My test of a pile of SR Black fuses is described on the SR Black forum thread…enjoy!
I "read somewhere" that through your stellar work in setting up sound systems for concerts in order to attain other-worldly loudness levels that you have destroyed your hearing. Can’t remember where or when I read it, but if I read it, it must be true.
I, and many others, are wondering as to what professional auditory tests you’ve put your ears through and how they measure. Until you submit the results of such testing we cannot give a fair analysis of your hearing acumen, or indeed, your competence in fuseology.
Please submit all testing data by posting the results of your latest auditory tests in this forum as soon as possible.
Both my ears recently tested as "meh," which according to my peers in audio live sound mixing is perfectly normal, and could explain why my live sound work has been described by some as "stellar." Here's the official data:
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