The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses

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.

@highstream Thanks for the heads up on the 3 for 1 offer. It's a big deal considering my power amp requires 5 fuses, going to be a major pain checking the direction of all those fuses unless I try them individually in a single fuse component first. Unless you have advice?

Going to try and check all my fuses tomorrow  and if I have a few of the same size/current I'll also try to get an AM Masterpiece to compare.

Thanks Again

Ted Denny III wrote about burn in: “And you don’t need music running through the system, just leave equipment on where they’re applied.”

Ted, What does “on” mean? Wouldn’t a trickle current suffice for gear that has that, as opposed to necessarily turning on the component into operating mode?

@melton Have you asked the developer what those internal fuses do? I would think that the greatest benefit would come from changing the AC fuse, usually in back. That’ one feeds the power supply, which determines the quality of what’s supplied to everything else.