Surprised by Synergistic Red Fuse on Source for 99

I will confess that I do not know how such a small change affects sound for the better. I agree with your findings. Trust your ears.

I have liked some Synergistic products and my Mono Amps already have the previous Synergistic Quantum fuse in it. When I had my PS Audio Perfectwave DAC MKII and Transport I tried the Hifi Tuning fuses and found them to be a slight improvement. Later I put the then new Synergistic Quantum fuses in both the DAC and Transport in place of the HiFi Tuning fuses. Again there was a slight improvement. Neither made an easy to notice improvement. Besides those I tried a few others over the years. Some you could not tell any difference.

Along comes the NEW Red Fuse. I figured why not give it a shot. They have a 30 day trial. So I contacted my Amp manufacture and asked him to order me a set and if he could please install them.

Please keep in mind that my Mono Amps sound great. I an very happy with how they sound from top to bottom. And have no plans to change.

I really expected to hear either no difference or barely any. I thought I would have to strain and really concentrate to hear any, if any, difference. I realized that since the amps had been transported and opened that they would need some time to settle once back in my system. So i played some music through them for a couple of hours while I left the house and did some errands.

BOY! Was I surprised. There was a top to bottom improvement and it was EASY to hear the difference.

I have been asked by several people, some of whom own the same Amps, how I would describe the change. I have ONE word that comes right to mind.

REFINEMENT

You name it and it was better. Seriously!

I do not know how they did it but they made a great sounding amp sound better all over. With just a FUSE.

This is one of the best returns in audio I have ever got on my money.

I would love to install them in my Meitner MA1 DAC but it is made so only Meitner can open it, as far as I can tell.

I can not guarantee that you will experience the same but Synergistic does.

Regardless what you may believe about whether fuses could make a difference this is a no brainier. You get a 30 day money back trial to see and it is not costly if it works.

I highly recommend them, and it is the first fuse I can say that about.

Now if I can just figure out a way to get it in my Meitner MA1 DAC...

Hello Hifial.

I confess I have changed fuses in my Metrum DAC, Lamm pre, and McIntosh amp and, like you, can barely hear differences. I can, but they are subtle. I tried HiFi Tunning fuses and now have SR Quantum fuses there...

But wanted to ask you about the fuse change you had done to your amps: did you replace the internal fuses as well as the "external" fuse (the one we can generally replace without opening the amp)? And what kind of amp do you have?

Mine is a McIntosh MC275, so tubes, and I only replaced the "external" fuse. So you have me wondering.
FWIW, I installed Bybee's Small Slipstream Purifiers (his cheapest) on the RCA inputs to my amp and they made a way more significant improvement than fuses - and they aren't exposed to blowing up, like fuses are :-)

Anyone else concur or having heard it found it otherwise?

Yes, I have similar results after replacing the HiFi-Tuning Supreme in my pre with Red Fuse. It's difficult to contemplate how a little fuse can alter the SQ by this magnitude.