The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses

I think I do need to give it a couple hundred hours before I comment again as they seem to start from a different tonal place than the Orange did.

This one is actual my second Purple fuse, but the other one was in an unfamiliar and less detailed amp that I sold, and I didn't have a matching Orange to compare it with. My sense is that it did have a slightly dark, colorful, and rounded sound compared to stock, but it wasn't dramatic like the first hours of this one.

I would highly appreciate an objective appreciation of available tuning fuses.

SR - Purple is warm? Orange?

Audio Magic - Masterpiece Series M1

Quantum Science Audio - Everything above yellow is expensive.

Furutech TF - Discontinued but are still available.

Any other fuses I haven't mentioned?

I plan to gradually change all my fuses or at least, if I can, experiment with each piece of equipment.

Anyone realised an improvement with power amps?

Thanks in advance.

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While I await a couple of QSA Reds, my system has been using a combo of SR Oranges and mostly AM Ultimate Premiers. The SR Carbon Discs didn’t work so well here, so I exchanged them for a Purple fuse. It went into a PSA P15 regenerator, thus affecting everything else down the line. It’s got 60 hours now, so just an initial read pending another 8-10 days. What I’m hearing of its effects is a satisfying major improvement over the Orange in every way but one: on the tonally dry to lifelike continuum, it’s on the dry end. A great sense of presence but little emotional connection, sweetness. More like an observer of another’s emotions (but oh so lovely potrayed). Connection is something the Orange help do well. Hope that reverses…

@highstream Thanks for the reply. Only want to spend $200-300 per fuse so the most attractive to me would be SR Purple, AM Premier or Masterpiece and the Quantum Yellow or at a huge push the Lilac.

It would be nice to hear back from you after the Purple has broken in and your report on the Reds.

Thanks again.

The Orange is warm, with the top end less well controlled than the Purple. The Ultimate Premier a little less warm, but otherwise a clear improvement over the Orange. Just got an email that SR is running a 3-for-2 sale on the Purple through April. I’m going to wait another week before deciding. Timing is unfortunate, as I’d like to hear the Reds and upgraded preamp first, but don't know when either are going to arrive.