Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Charles ...

Once the RED's were broken in, I didn't want to leave the house. Every CD in the collection became a revelation. I'm going to include a Curtis Counce's "Carl's Blues" CD in the listening session tonight in your honor. :-)

wolf-garcia ...

Be assured ... as it usually does during listening sessions at my place, it became quite "mystical" last night. Maybe it was the single malt Scotch and the blue bulb in the floor lamp. 

"....... The Furutechs beat the HiFi Tuning by a lot, the SR 20's beat the Furutechs by a little.  Now, I have the SR Reds installed, and they are far and away so superior to the SR 20's.."   .  And there is a new SR Black that is probably light years better then Red.   The guy just lost his mind... out of proportion.
It all depends on a system and even more on the preferences of it's owner.  Cables,  fuses and everything else.. 
hah ... far and away superior...   yea...

Oregonpapa,

Have you tried reversing the direction of the fuse before leaving it to burn in?

I would guess you have it im the correct direction given the big jump in clarity you are experiencing over the Red fuse.

I gather from your observations, that indeed, the black is more resolute sound over the Red fuse and guess you have your system pretty much dialed in.

I often encounter a tweak or hardware change which is a clear step up but somehow get nagging feelings something is not quite right.

More often than not, I "Always" have to balance the it out a bit, by maybe shifting footers or room treatment tweek, e.g HFT’s to get things to my liking in the way, flow, emotion, smoothness, grainlessness aspects click back into focus of how I "like" it.

Nowadays, I prefer that something added does give a smaller incremental difference as opposed to a larger difference as this is more likely to work and not leaving me too impressed and eventually scratching my head why I not longer can have longer listen periods, totally relaxed. sometimes it can be too much of a good thing!

Good that things are getting better with more burning. 

This is quite interesting,  it may turn out that the sr-red's are more musical than the black's,  as the old adage say's, to much of a good thing can turn into an unsatisfying sound.