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What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses?

I live in California and a couple of weeks ago we had strange lightning storms that started the many fires burning in the State.  It also fried the fuse in my Pass XA30.5.  I got the amp second hand and it came with a SR Blue fuse.  I called Pass and they recommended a very cheap fuse which I ordered and installed.  Because I was curious, I took the SR sticker off the old burnt out fuse and found that it was a very cheap SIBA brand fuse underneath.  It is clear that SR is either not making the ceramic casing for this fuse or using the SIBA fuse and then doing stuff to it.  At the very worst, it's just slapping a sticker on it and charging a ton more

The thing is, I'm pretty sure I could hear a difference for the worse when I installed the cheap glass fuse post lightning storm.  Could it be that SR is modifying an existing fuse to make it sound better?  Maybe some more technically minded folks here on the forum could help me understand

thanks!
adam8179

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glupson
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cal91,

"The instruments started moving closer together and no longer went as far past the speakers. Coletrane seemed to fade a little further back and Haynes lost a little of the sharpness and clout."

It seems that you have mono version.

glupson
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Impressive!
glupson
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"I was listening to Coletrane’ "My Favorite Things" last night and was enjoying the expanded sound stage and sharper imaging since I put in the SR fuses."


If we continue this way, soon a new fuse will make a 1960 recording into genuine surround sound.

glupson
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"Isn't that when two Eskimos get intimate?"
What is a divorce called then? Cold fission?
glupson
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"...what do I do with the improvement my brain perceived I got when I replaced the fuses? I'd like to keep it."
Then keep it. All three of them.
glupson
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The last one I met introduced herself as "Eskimo". Very cool girl, I must admit.
glupson
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I have seen Mickey Mouse. I know he is real.
glupson
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If a piece of equipment, let's say a CD player, has multiple fuses, let's say eight of them, how does the improvement go? Is it linear improvement depending on the number of expensive fuses used, or it is some other relationship? Is there a certain minimal number of fuses needed to improve the sound or it works from the first one?
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