Synergistic Red Fuse ...

I loved that 9 volt transistor radio. The exotic 9 volt battery. Eveready  with the cat on the battery cover just looked cool. No more crystal sets shaped like a Rocketship  with the tuner wire coming out of the nose cone. No sir. I went Electric even before Bob Dylan did

With a great system such as my Mother's, it is interesting how good Sirius Internet Streaming can sound. Yes it has fewer bits than Spotify and way less than Tidal, but Bobby Hackett's Trumpet was playing in the room tonight and then Frank Sinatra sang. "You know I heard him live- singing with the Dorsey Band" she reminded me.

She loves the sound of her system with it's Black fuses, Black Wall Outlets, and SET amplifier.

David Pritchard

^^^  We didn't have those fancy transistor radios when I was a kid. They weren't invented yet. I think they came into fashion in the early 60's, if I'm not mistaken.  In fact, everything had tubes, including the radio I used to take under the covers with me. Kept me warm though. 

The 50's were a great time to be a high school kid who loved jazz and blues. There were so many great jazz clubs around the L.A. area at the time.  My girlfriend went to a private Catholic high school and they had Dave Pell's band play for all of their school dances. I did a lot more listening than dancing. :-)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/living-stereo-RCA-dave-pell-octet-jazz-goes-dancing-LP-top-copy-M-/121988623...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dave-Pell-Octet-Plays-Again-Fresh-Sound-101-SPAIN-NICE-1984-/201461048000?ha...

And then there were the times at the Palladium ballroom in Hollywood ... dances for teens ... and the orchestra? .... Ray Anthony. 

Others: Shelly Mann's "The Mann Hole," The LIghthouse in Hermosa Beach and Zardi's in Hollywood on the Strip. All gone now. 

Thanks for the tip on room 228, David. I'll be sure to check it out. 

OP

Gonna try a Black fuse in my REL R-328. Arrives Friday. Last place to try one in my current setup. We shall see...

Andynotadam
I am looking forward to reading your experience with the black fuse in your REL sub. When reporting please mention the crossover frequency.
I have a REL B2. Thanks

The Black fuse for my REL arrived a day early! Gotta love highend-electronics teamed with the good ol' post office. I installed it into my R-328 and noted the crossover level (30Hz) and level (about 9:30), levels which have remained stable over a number of system changes (excluding speakers of course). 

Honestly, the first thing I noticed after the change was that the sound stage was better organized, more articulate and seemed to have a greater degree of dimensionality (properly set up RELs can do this, and the Black fuse enhanced this effect in  my system). This was obvious right away on the first cut from Patricia Barber's "Companion," an album, with which I am very familiar.  The first cut, "The Beat Goes On" has congas and syncopated hand-claps for percussion. Michael Arnopol's bass on "Use Me" digs deep but also has a great deal of texture and overtone structure, and this was further enhanced with the Black over the stock fuse.  Bass weight and control were clearly improved.

My system is a 2 channel setup is for both music and video. What was kind shocking was that the sound of TV show themes and familiar commercials took on a noticeably different and improved character. They have more and better bass and the noise floor seems to have dropped, revealing greater detail! I noticed the same thing when I upgraded my DAC. How crazy is that? (And some of you will no doubt say, seriously dude you are very crazy.)

BTW, my REL is fed by a Synergistic AC Master-Coupler Subwoofer Active AC cord and the high-level Speakon cable is a Kimber CU.