Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Like many who posted earlier, I have the original Synergistic Research fuses in most of my equipment, including some that I've sold. This was the results of comparisons some time ago with every fuse that I could lay my hands on as well as experimenting with the direction of every fuse I used. I remain very happy with what I hear with my old SR fuses.

Many manufactures claim that their fuses don't have a direction, but I have failed to find any such fuse. I think this was true of the SR fuses also. I hope to soon try the SR  Red fuses but that entails once again checking what values I need,

One thing is certain fuses and their direction are important.

I got SR Blacks after I had experienced the benefits of High Fidelity cables and power cords as well as the new H-Cat X-10 MkIII amp with zero distortion. Together they gave me the most realistic sound stage I had ever heard. Then I added the SR Blacks which further embellished this realism. 

I must say that perhaps twenty years ago, I thought I had the best sound reproduction I thought possible. Now I know how wrong I was.

I should also add, that I have an Archiving Vinyl AMS Mk III music server and play mainly SACDs converted to DSD but also many CDs. All are played in quad DSD on Signalyst software. I have excellent vinyl but it does not rival what quad DSD does.

I a;m getting too old and lazy for vinyl and have well over 700 albums to choose from, merely by touching my MS Surface screen.

Someone earlier said that the correct direction with the SR Blacks is counter to the printing. Has anyone else reached that conclusion?

Mapman, Wolf_garcia, Geoffkait, thank you for your unsoliced opinions.

oregonpapa, I now have the B. M. C. Arcadia speakers with two 11 inch woofers in each speaker. In the past I have tried about eleven different subwoofers including some that were 8 foot tall isobarics. I always had great difficulty blending in the subwoofer with the separate speakers. With the BMCs I have outstanding full range consistency and room shaking bass on organ music bass notes.

Basically, I have given up on subwoofers. I once had two 24" woofers and had to turn them upside down every six months as they sagged. I sold them to a guy who had the same problem, but his solution was to have two sets.

Oh, I meant to say that I agree with you that better bass reflects on better sound throughout.

The SR Black fuses are definitely directional. A friend and I switched the three fuses in the H-Cat X-10 MkIII amp from writing into the amp to all out. The sound was harsh and with no stereo imaging. My friend decided that the two top fuses were dc circuit fuses and that one needed to be the opposite of the other fuse. With the other fuses with writing going into the amp, we made the left one to out. This was much better, but ultimately we made the lower ac fuse go out also. I am not certain of this right now, however.

Don't experiment with fuse direction at your loss. 

I had previosly seen this thread but already knew of the SR Black fuse and bought four of them. I loved them but wondered if those on this thread thought the reds were better. Obviously I see now that this was not true.

But I see now that there is now a further is of whether everything matters. I think is is true. In the last four years, the realism of my system has jumped greatly. SR Black fuses are one ingredient, but others include Zilplex tesonant devices, Star Sound racks, platforms, and Audio Points, BMC Aradia speakers, BMC MCCI phono stage, NAP's H-cat preamp X 10 preamp X-10 preamp and especially X-10 MkIV amp, Archiving Vinyl's AVM music server and awesome AVARI DAC, and especially,the High Fidelity Cables Pro series ICs, PCs, and speaker Speaker wires, TriPoint's Troy Signature grounding unit with SE grounding wires, and, of course the SRBlack fuses.

I can honestly say that I have removed each of these and found a loss of realism. I am one happy man.

I would not recommend your doing this. I didn't do this and had no problem. You might damage your component which might cost you much more.