Synergistic Red Fuse ...
Imagine, for a moment, some manufacturer going the resettable fuse route. They'd be a year ahead of the competition and have a better sounding product to boot (all things being equal). And, if smart, they'd never mention it and a year up on the competition could be extended. In the meantime, laurels will be laid and glowing reviews published, establishing a foothold, and all this on a building a better, and cheaper mousetrap. Or something like that. :-) All the best, Nonoise |
Bryston has no fuses, only a circuit breaker. Probably from their pro audio lineage where who t f wants to deal with fuses on the gear when it pops, just reset the circuit breaker. Kind of how houses are no longer built with fuse panels anymore. Except Bryston gets a ton of criticism because of how they used to sound and not how they sound now. Probably more accurate than most products out there but that doesn't fit the audiophile nomenclature. Fwiw, I own no Bryston gear and do own and can hear the difference between fuses in certain components. |
On my HT system I have an Marantz SR6004 which has two of these resettable fuses in it. The one on the standby transformer during a power blackout blew, instead of resetting. It was a pig to replace as it’s down the bottom of the three stacked boards and I had to remove all the boards and that bottom board to solder in a new one. If it was just a fuse in a clamp holder I could have replaced it easy with long nose pliers without removing anything. How a PTC resettable fuse works http://www.fuzetec.com/upload/images/PTC%20Function_Work_Basic.PNG Cheers George |
I recently got a matched pair of Telefunken 12AX7s from from Andy Bowen at Vintage Tube Services. They replaced some Teslas’ (80’s or 90’s vintage) I had been running in my ASL Tulip 2A3 SET amp. The Teslas’ were supposedly made with Telefunken’s tooling, and I thought they sounded pretty good. The real deal Telefunkens blew them away. It’s hard to describe the difference; just more air, sense of space, transparency, detail, involvement & general musical goodness. If you’d like to find out for yourself the difference really good NOS small signal tubes can make, give Andy a call. If you’ve priced NOS tubes elsewhere, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. |
