I just wanted to share my excitement with my SR Blue Fuses. I installed 3 in my Anthem I225. Its been probably 100 hours of burn in time now and I really am beside myself in the difference. The bass is really full, my highs are nicely extended and my soundstage is huge. Just today, my soundstage became ridiculous. If you are happy with your current amplifier / preamplifier and intend on keeping it for awhile I highly recommend replacing the fuses with SR Blue fuses, if not the Orange fuses. I got my Blues for 30% off. It is quite possibly the best tweak I have done aside from room treatments.
It takes awhile to burn the fuses in but once they are, it’s pretty awesome the difference they make. I was pretty skeptical about this mod and thought it was a lot to spend but now that I have, it was the best $400 mod I have done. It made more of a difference than my upgraded power cords and actually probably made a more of a difference than going from my signal cable silver res speaker cables to my ap solo crystals.
Highly recommended if you already love your amp/preamp and intend to keep them for awhile!
Actually I was a salesman for a good 4-5 years way back (Tech Hifi, Radio Shack, Lafayette Radio...many fuses sold/installed/replaced) and I did not denigrate salesmen. Salesmen are properly named and just doing their job which is to sell stuff.
Don’t know why people who favor fuses are so thin skinned. Can you imagine if everyone jumped the shark here whenever someone else had a differing opinion?
Any how, I have nothing new to add about fuses that has not already been said so off to greener pastures......
Don’t know why people who favor fuses are so thin skinned.
They feel guilty and have to continually justify them selves, over their snake oil beliefs they are trying to spread, or they work on a quota system with SR.
Oh, my gawd, Georgiepie ... you've discovered the secret. Its those huge SR commission checks that drive us. The last check I received was so large, I think I'll splurge and take a trip to the local Taco Bell and buy myself a taco.
Frank
PS: Georgiepie ... have I told you lately how wonderful my system is sounding with the Synergistic Research Orange Fuses throughout the system?
It wasn't that long ago that any speaker wire other than zip wire couldn't possibly make any difference. How about power cords ? How many of you still have the 65 cent cord that came with your expensive component ? There are some folks here who do not believe fuses can make a difference. My question to you folks is have any of you had first hand experience with after market fuses? b_limo is obviously very happy with the improvements that fuses have made in his system. Even though some of you who have had no actual experience seem to be in a big hurry to dismiss what b_limo is hearing why are you assuming that he is not an experienced critical listener who is intimately familiar with his own system and is obviously very pleased with the improvements the fuses made ? Don't you think that it's awfully dismissive to be telling him that he can't possibly be hearing the better sound that he is actually hearing ?
Even though some of you who have had no actual experience seem to be in a big hurry to dismiss what b_limo is hearing why are you assuming that he is not an experienced critical listener who is intimately familiar with his own system and is obviously very pleased with the improvements the fuses made ? Don’t you think that it’s awfully dismissive to be telling him that he can’t possibly be hearing the better sound that he is actually hearing ?
Any EE engineer will tell you it’s impossible (snake oil) for a AC fuse to do this, unless it’s aged like this (linked), then that is debatable also.
What you most likely heard was a fuse that’s seen too many turn on cycles, they get fatigued and hardened and build up crusty deposits , like these have with too many turn on cycles. Left to right https://ibb.co/G9XGH8Y Right to left https://ibb.co/b5dz1q5
How many here continually replace their fuses due to on/off cycling? Not many, I'd guess, as practically all gear made is designed to handle and ameliorate any current rush in, unless it's some DIY POS or something from the '60s, but even equipment from back then still have their original fuses.
I've never had to replace a fuse due to turn on/off cycling. Never. And when I've swapped out fuses, none have ever exhibited the extreme wear and abuse that Georgie constantly posts. I've made it a point to really take a good look at them and they all look brand new.
Don't fall for his bunk. Trust your ears. It's your hobby and it's not art done by committee.
I've had gear that really showed the differences in fuses and one that showed nary a difference. Now that I use a AQ Niagara 1200 conditioner, the sound of the fuses have been greatly reduced to the point where I stopped trying them and just use a really good quality, high rupturing fuse that you can get for under $4.00. (ceramic body, filler to kill any arcing, high quality metal caps, etc.)
Bog standard stock fuses that Georgie advocates are made of a witches brew of low to poorly conductive metals that no one in their right mind would use in any wire or cable since they were always thought to be just a preventative against something catastrophic. Since his are blowing on a regular enough basis that he keeps enough around should tell you something.
To those not very technical who are considering these snake oil products. Save your money and put it toward a real upgrade of equipment instead.
As it’s always the same old SR persistent shillers, that come back to these threads time and time again to spruik about the "incredible sonic benefits" of installing a >$100 blue or whatever fuse in place of the manufacturers 50cent one. And then have the hide to say the newer more expensive one when it comes out has even more "incredible benefits" than the $150 one.
Don’t be gullible, and see where this is going. It’s like a malignant cancer. NO Electronic Engineer worth his salt will back this snake oil, and the benefits these shillers claim there are with these snake oil products.
Instead of the SR Blue fuses, I have found putting a 10 gauge solid silver wire in place of the fuse gives excellent PRAT. Just sayin 😂
What? Who can afford solid silver wire! A nice rusty old nail will do nicely......
On a more sort of serious note, I owned a Honda VFR800 a few years back I bought well used with 47k miles on it but it still rode great. One day about 80 miles from home(of course!), it just quit totally. Spent a few minutes checking basics then removed seat and started looking for fuses, relays etc. Well guess what! I found the MAIN fuse had been "repaired" with silver foil wrapped around the end caps of the who knows how long ago blown fuse....... Do NOT try this stunt at home children!
The mid and tweeter in Maggies are fused. The fuses are part of the signal path. There's a long-held, well-documented practice of removing this fuse bank altogether or at least bridging the fuse holders with a solid piece of silver for improved sound. Then the audiophile fuses came along to provide another option, and you would be amazed just how much nicer the speakers sound. They are like an extension of nicer speaker cables. I have had HiFi Tuning, Furutech, SR 20, SR Red, SR Black and SR Blue fuses in. Each was a small improvement, with the SR Black and then Blues far and away the largest leaps forward. There are others out there I have not tried--not schilling for one brand, just ended up there. For the AC mains in my amps, subs and CDP, all have improved clarity with these fuses. In this position, I compare them to an extension of the audiophile power cable. The current travels through the fuses, and there must be a level of noise removed by the better fuse using graphene, better fuse body, end caps, etc. All I know is what I hear.
Fuses do not "remove" noise as they're FUSES...a tiny half inch bit of wire that has to melt when needed. No matter how much hyperbole is ladled out by the Faithful you can't get around the fact that fuses are fuses. Any forward leaping is imagined and displays the power of expectation bias which is why Magic Fuses are not nor will they ever be embraced by the sane vast majority of gearheads.
It’s disgusting that there are two posters who continue to be allowed to jump on every thread that even mentions fuses, and proceed to dump their bilge on it ad nauseam. I’m sure they take a tremendous amount of perverse pride in getting these threads shut down. So much for the free exchange of ideas and information. Sad, very sad.
The original poster was clearly enthusiastic about a surprising discovery he made of something that increased his enjoyment of his system. He naturally wanted to share and discuss it with other enthusiasts. Isn’t that what this hobby is all about? Congratulations on your savage beat down. I'm sure he won't make the mistake of mentioning fuses on this forum again.
Somehow I suspect B can handle this horrible situation where people offer their honest opinion and knowledge in their own inimitable way. . If the fuses worked for him I am glad.
If you are going blow a fuse, best to keep things private.
@nonoise "
just use a really good quality, high rupturing fuse that you can get for under $4.00. (ceramic body, filler to kill any arcing, high quality metal caps, etc.)"
Would you kindly enlighten me as to the brand of fuse that you use. I have LOTS of fuses (28 in amps alone) and am not prepared to spend what would amount to many $1000s as an experiment. Thank you.
anyone saying anything positive, about certain products they clearly have a personal vendetta against, is properly punished.
You need to get it right, snake oiler’s are the ones that need to be the punished. The OP most likely made a mistake as he did on the CDtransport/Streamer thread he started at the same time, because he mistakenly had EQ’ing going on when he thought it was switched out after much hair pulling.
Can’t really take millercarbons opinions on quality.. just look at the pictures he used to post of his system...and now he bought Tektons 😂🤣😂🤪 talking about zero taste !!
All good quality industry standard fuses that won’t cost you more than a buck or two. Not like the >$150 the boutique SR snake oil fuses do for the same thing. Yes there a couple of $5-$14 special "cartridge" size instrument fuses, which are not your normal sizes of hifi fuses.
Those fuses are not going for a buck or two and are way more than the $.50 ones you rant about. They aren't even made of the same material, being of a higher quality as well. The very ones on that page show it to be the case and not how you portray it.
50c or $1 or $2 it’s a metaphor sunshine, they all do the same job, and is a massive difference compared to $160 for an SR Orange which does the same job, only the gullible think otherwise. Give it a rest, or "you’ll blow a poofel valve"😬
What part of the term "Alternating Current" do most directional fuse people people not understand? Yes, replacing fuses chip away at the corrosion on the terminals, no matter what you replace them with..
I hear that certain posters think whenever a fuse is mentioned anywhere that the "schills" ( their words not mine) dash out to pray at the altar of fuse gods.
I would opine it is exactly the opposite
The fuse naysayers of which we know the names always seem to be the first responders to any fuse mention like they have to try and heal the afflicted poor souls who have inadvertently fallen prey to the great gods of fuses.
Give me a freaking break jack!
We are all adults here and are quite capable of deciding what and where to spend our money.
The naysayers dont like it thats fine, keep your pennies in your pockets, you are happy and so is everybody else until they start spouting poison for which there is no need whatsoever.
Only the gullible would fall for Georgie's slide show. He's been copying and pasting that for years as if it means something.
He's never heard a difference because he really can't hear all that well and is predisposed to not hearing small differences that are there, writing them off as insignificant and not worth the worry.
He's also fond of citing specs on products that others have tried and not found to sound all that good, and tells folk to go out and buy it because of, specs.
I don't think some of you know how electric charge works. The current does move in both directions but the electromagnetic wave only moves in one direction.
Really "priceless", that’s bit of a lame fist pump.
Yes it’s a $10 more robust low magnetic fuse which means the end caps are brass and not steel, and a thicker glass envelop that’s all, nothing what so ever to do with improving sound as the shillers here preach and have you believe.
But definitely look like the they "maybe" the re-badged $160!!!! SR fuses though. Great insane markup if you can get away with it.
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