Tesla Plex SE by Synergistic Research.

Hi Mr Pritchard,
Many thanks for your suggestion!
I will be eager to see how the Tesla wall AC receptacle evolves within 150hours of break in..
I´m interested also in reading your comparison between both fuses( the Red and Black)
Cheers!
keep in touch!

Raf

Hi Raf,
I used to have Tesla Powercell 4Se in my system up to last December. It made HF to become more refined and provided more sound-stage extensions. Based on my experience, bass was a little bit softened. Overall it is a very good Power conditioner for Tube amps. Especially its non-limited current characteristic made it very appealing for big amplifiers. Except Tara labs (Pm2, Ad6 and Idat) power conditioners, I don’t know any other PC having this characteristic. Powercell does not provide any surge protection, so you need to be aware of that.

I used to cascade Powercell with Tara labs Pm2/Ad6 and result was excellent. You could also cascade your Powercell with Transparent filter bank and find out whether it would improve the sound quality or not.

Upgrading MPC adapter of Powercell (30-32volts output), would bring more resolution and refined HF to your system. It is recommended to do so. There are some comments here at Audiogon about how to do it. Instead of that, I also tried, some laptop AC/DC adapters which usually are very good (30-32volts outputs) and result was much better compared to original MPC.
BTw, your Furutech FPX is a very good WPO, and perhaps adding a Tesla plex Wall outlet will make your system too bright!!! Right now, Furrutech Gtx Gold is on sale for $140 which is pretty good and maybe it could compensate/improve the bass frequency of Powercell.

Hope that would help,
Cheers,
Michel

Hello Mr Pritchard.
Have you tested the Sinergistic Research Black fuse in the Jadis Orchestra amp?If so....which are the differences compared to the Red fuse?
Many thanks for your opinions!
Cheers!

Raf

Ok initial listening session done.  

I spent about an hour swapping fuses in the arc sp16 and comparing.  Also changing fuse direction.  I left the quantum sticker thingy off. 

So look,  the red fuse sounded good.      So did the stock fuse that came in the arc sp16 new.    If there was a difference it did not jump out at me.  Both sounded similarly good with great dynamics big soundstage excellent detail and the whole nine yards.   I cannot really attribute anything unique to the red fuse so far. 

I listened to 3 very good quality recordings, all lossless flac files ripped to my music server using dbpoweramp:  The Mariners Revenge Song by The Decemberists, The William Walton Crown Imperial Coronation March on Mercury Living Presence,. And The Grand Duel by Luis Bacalov from the Kill Bill Pt 1 soundtrack.  

jwmazur:

I much prefer Ohmedia machines!

mapman:

I did find the RED fuse to take about 3 days to settle in. I thought it was a nice improvement over a stock fuse. Then comparing a Synergistic Research Black fuse to Red or original, the improvement was greatest with the BLACK fuse.

Black fuse is simply the best and it's easy to hear the improvement. This applies to amps, DAC's, CD players, sound processors, sub woofers and TV sound bars. These are locations I have personally evaluated.

Concerning wall outlets: I do like the way the Synergistic Research Teslaplex SE wall outlets brings more music to the room. The Furutech GTX-R is also good but brings different qualities to the room.  But if I was starting out trying outlets,  I would pick a Synergistic Research Teslaplex SE. It is the one outlet that comes with a 30 day money back trial. It also is less expensive!

David Pritchard