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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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davidpritchard
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justubes2:

The Synergistic Research Black A/C outlet has more complex and better qualities than the Teslaplex, Teslaplex SE, and the Furutech GTXD-R (Rhodium). I found your one sentence descriptions of these outlets to be accurate and concise.

The Black outlet has the best of each outlet's qualities put into one single outlet. There is better definition and micro detail than the Teslaplex, more forward and bigger presentation (more emotion) than the Furutech. The space between the instruments is excellent but not so dark that one gets a cold and sterile  soundstage. It has the air of the Furutech without the rhodium metal sound.


On the headphone system I am using 4 Teslaplex SE + 1 Black outlet. This is with the Sennheiser 800 headphones (these headphones have a big soundstage to begin with). When I put the Enigmacoustic Dharma headphones in the system I will try 3 Teslaplex SE, 1 Furutech GTX-R, and 1 Black outlet.

On the Terasonic speaker system I replaced the Furutech GTX-R with the Black outlet. This kept the big soundstage with less of a  metal sound and a more relaxed sound. The other 4 outlets are Teslaplex SE.

I do like the sound of my systems to fill the room and not be "over there".

The headphone system certainly is not limited to being "inside my head".

I do think the Synergistic Research Black outlet is a significant development showing improved qualities in several areas. I think this outlet is worth the premium price.

David Pritchard


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oregonpapa OP
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Thank you, David.  I think there's an SR Black outlet in my future.  
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goldencutt
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Hello oregonpapa,

thank you for your great thread here at audiogon.
Since 2 weeks i am using the SR RED Fuse, which brought a big change in my system. Since yesterday my order for the Black Fuses arrived. You menschend it needs some time to settle. Therefor i have a few question concerning your experience with the black fuse.
At first it seams that its not as good as the red fuse. I started with my power conditioner, which has 3 fuses and the sound wall was huge. Changed direction of the fuse and the size of instruments and voices  was right again. It is more dynamic than the red ones.
Today we are gonna change the red in the cd player and the amp against the blacks. 
I remember that, when you placed the new blacks against the reds you where not happy at all. How long did it take till there was a change and how did the change happened. From the beginning to the state you are in now? Does the chip on top of the fuse, interfere with shaktis, or other chips used in a system? Did you change all components? 
justubes2
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Thanks for the rundown on the outlets.

Outlets are also a very large contributor to the sound, but find they, like plugs can cause a bigger change and improvements which need carefully synergies with the equipment and cables unlike the fuses. Any aftermarket fuse is likely to give an overall improvement over a stock standard fuse.

Like the wall outlets, i still like the old Teslaplex (non SE) in front of the SE version. It has some hardness and dynamics which the SE verion leaves behind for a more musical presentation, which for Rock music give a calmness which at times seem wanting.

Afraid an added GTX-D may add too much detail and spotlighting effect which a nonplated outlet will never give.. So may swing for the black.
wolf_garcia
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Seriously, I've never seen a more substantial boatload of nonsense on any thread. Now outlets are supplying a sort of passive tone manipulation? Outlets with good grip on plugs make sense…hospital grade or whatever ( I use PS Audio power ports because of that) but they simply have zero effect on any aspect of tone. To think otherwise is really strange. Does anybody think about this stuff rationally as it applies to AC or is rationality simply swept aside when discussing imaginary fuse direction symptoms or dynamic tone changes from magical sources? Overpriced fuses pushed hard by smarmy agenda driven "experts" can ensnare the gullible into thinking they see clothing on the emperor (overused cliche' but valid in this case)…and encouraging others to waste their cash on placebos installed well outside of the active circuitry of power supplies and complex tone shaping components is sketchy behavior at best, unethical at worst.
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