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In Reply to: RE: Public Service Anouncement! posted by Audiolover718 on May 20, 2011 at 15:16:57
Only about five hours on the new Furutech Select series Fuse and it is already sounding amazing... Expanded soundstage with lots of low level detail... Also excellent micro and macro dynamics...
Update: Replaced the other three fuses with the Furutech Select Series Fuse...
I replaced the four fuses in my Marantz HD-DAC1...
Wrapped some Fo.Q TA-32 Tuning Tape on all four Furutech fuses...
Edits: 07/17/15 07/17/15Follow Ups:
As usual, late to this party by 4 years!
Just for the heck of it, I had an NAD C325BEE (well, I have two) in the system. I had just opened it tonight for no reason other than I was thinking of changing the resistors in it to a better type (it's way out of warranty, anyway). I saw it had fuses. 6 of them. Easy to see, located in the upper right corner of the amp (viewed from the rear of the amp).Now, you'd think this would be a no-brainer that they had fuses, but I hadn't realized that before.
After reading this thread - and since I had no new fuses to try out, I just cleaned the fuse heads and holder with Caig ProGold contact cleaner.
I turned the unit on and held my breath, hoping that, although I'd dried the fuse and holder well (I only did one!), it wouldn't cause a blowout of some type.
The sound was noticeably cleaner on the Rolling Stones Aftermath hybrid CD (I was just using the CD layer). The grain - akin to using a 200 (ASA) speed Kodachrome film - was reduced, so that it was more akin to 50 (ASA)speed film. I thought maybe my Ambien had kicked in (hey, I did this at 11:30 pm!), but it was clear on every cut that there was less grain.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think it occurred to me to clean the fuse holder. Tomorrow morning, I can easily clean the PS Audio Power Plant.
We so often get caught up in "bigger and better" equipment that we forget the little things. No wonder, from the 70s on, HP used to have his setup man clean the tube pins every two weeks. And no wonder dealers doubted equipment sounded (sometimes) as he (HP) said it did. One dealer said to me once, "Are we listening to the same piece of equipment as him?!?!" Without cleaning the tube pins, I would say we weren't. Enid Lumley encouraged the same thing. Prophets are sometimes acknowledged after their passing.
Many, Many, MANY thanks to those who stated unequivocally that we clean our fuses and fuse holders.
By the way, I ordered 4 of the Furutechs. Put one in the PS Audio Power Plant and 3 in the NAD. Incidentally, these came in 2 separate orders placed days apart, because I didn't trust my ears.
I put in one 6.3 fuse into the NAD, and then found that, instead of ordering a .5 fuse, I had ordered a 5A fuse. Hmmmm, I thought, what do I do? Return it? And then my brain reminded me that the PS Audio uses a 5A fuse, so I put it in there.
Well, it took nearly no time at all to hear several things:
1), The Furutech fuses, just like the Rhodium wall outlets I have, move the soundstage closer, as one would expect moving from Row K to Row G. This, in turn, made voices more "present," or solid, as one poster put it, the same as in opera, where I saw in row L, and then one evening, a friend said, come sit with me, and she was in Row E, and when the baritone started singing, I felt it physically in my chest.
2) The sound is more lifelike, as in realism. In fact, the Nutcracker on Mercury Living Presence sounded faster - and brighter. There is definitely more sibilance, but that has been slowly disappearing. Nonetheless, it makes the tempo of music more crisp, as well as the diction of singers being vastly more crisp! I change the orientation of the .5 mA fuse in the NAD from the first time I placed it, and the soundstage flattened, so I knew my initial placement of it was the correct one, and I've put it back in the way I had it. And I got the second order and put in a second 6.3 fuse in the NAD and put the CD player on repeat. It's been around 36 hours since the second shipment. I could still hear glaze and a bit of hardness - as well as an artificial sound to the music - but that lessened when I came back to listen to it 2 hours ago, and even 15 hours after I placed the second shipment in, I could hear the difference.
Excellent fuses, and I'll have to wait longer to see how much more they improve, but this is worth the money. I'm sure one can get 80% of the performance, but I want 110% of the performance, and it is less expensive than buying a new amp (I'm still auditioning the Hegel).
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