I've only had experience with HiFi Tuning Silver Star and PADIS fuses and in both cases, reversing them gave me much better sound. The HiFI fuses were in for almost two years and the PADIS fuses were in for only three days and in both cases, they displayed the same deficiency in regards to how they sounded: rolled off highs, an out of phase focus and a one note bass, among other things.
I was never in the camp in regards to directionality which is why I waited so long to do it the first time around. With the PADIS fuses, I immediately suspected they were in the wrong direction but gave them three days to see if things cleared up, but they didn't and reversing them improved things considerably.
It would appear to me that hearing something amiss the first time around should at least prompt someone to simply flip the fuse. There will be time needed to break in but even at first listen, you should be able to tell.
All the best,
Nonoise |
I expect vitriol about my personal hearing ability, my tube amp (I tested the SR blacks in a SS amp also…but mostly in a push pull tube amp), my questioning Denney's patent claims (if someone claims something is patented and it's not, that goes to their credibility unless their worshippers don't mind utter nonsense, which seems to be the case), and I get that. Religious people don't like my atheism either, and I see similarities when magic thinking is involved in anything. My basic beef with Oregonpapa and other Fusers is simple: Claiming that the FUSE has such a transformative and obvious effect on the sound of your gear heap is simply not believable, and when you understand why fuses are there in the first place, simply as a safety item protecting your stuff from catastrophic failure, it seems very strange indeed. The main reason I'm harping about technical explanations of this "magic" isn't due to being obsessed with technical explanations, it's simply because in the case of "special" fuses, there are none…a conspicuous absence. None. A scam by SR to sell an item to gullible fans at an insane profit seems to be working well, and since it's only judged by subjective opinion I'm offering exactly that…me and most high end gear manufacturers. |
Many have said that you should install the fuse and if it does not sound good reverse it and it is now in the correct direction. What if, like other audio gear, the initial listening isn't indicative of its true character? That is, how can you be sure that what sounds not quite right on first listen isn't in fact in the correct direction and will produce the best sound after break in?
I seem to recall Ted Denney saying to try switching the direction, after the fuse is broken-in. Go with what sounds best. |
I expect vitriol about my personal hearing ability, my tube amp (I tested the SR blacks in a SS amp also…but mostly in a push pull tube amp), my questioning Denney's patent claims (if someone claims something is patented and it's not, that goes to their credibility unless their worshippers don't mind utter nonsense, which seems to be the case), and I get that. Religious people don't like my atheism either, and I see similarities when magic thinking is involved in anything. My basic beef with Oregonpapa and other Fusers is simple: Claiming that the FUSE has such a transformative and obvious effect on the sound of your gear heap is simply not believable, and when you understand why fuses are there in the first place, simply as a safety item protecting your stuff from catastrophic failure, it seems very strange indeed. The main reason I'm harping about technical explanations of this "magic" isn't due to being obsessed with technical explanations, it's simply because in the case of "special" fuses, there are none…a conspicuous absence. None. A scam by SR to sell an item to gullible fans at an insane profit seems to be working well, and since it's only judged by subjective opinion I'm offering exactly that…me and most high end gear manufacturers.
🛫✈️🐺🛩🛬 😁🍻 I guess this falls under, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks." 🙄 If you're going to continue to harp, ask yourself this, do caps, resistors, (tubes, etc.) with the same values and/or that all measure the same sound different? If the answer is no, please replace all of such components in your system with the cheapest ones you can find, and enjoy your system. |
I just came across a review of the SR Black fuse and one of their power cords over at Audio Bacon. Take it for what it's worth but the reviewer(s) ended up replacing all of their fuses due to the results they got. I know, it's all pay for play and they got all kinds of kickbacks and who can trust reviewers anyway and it's all a scam and everyone's in on it and they're all delusional and it's all due to expectation bias and they all keep jars of magic beans around just in case they need to go out on their unicorns in search of giants..... All the best, Nonoise |
