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RE: Public Service Anouncement!

Posted by Ceres on September 6, 2015 at 19:56:00:
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).