Tweaks for EMM CDSA SE ... ?

Flashunlock, thanks very much for all this information. Very interesting. I have the 230-volt EMM. It looks like I would have to buy the blue fuse -- the big or the small? Would the results be better than the fuse in the EMM? I use a silk cushion (waiting to be replaced by MiGs) under my EMM and 4 Totem beaks in diamond configuration on the top. The results are not subtle. I would like to know more about how your EMM sounds with the PowerCell. What MPC are you using -- the standard or the Galileo? How are resolution, dynamics and sound stage?

Sabai,

You're welcome. Try get the GREEN Furutech T2A fuse. The size is 20mm x 5mm and throw away the cheap glass fuse Emm provided. You will get a greater sence of focus, more layers, dynamics and resolution. If your system have valves in the chain, maybe try the HiFi Tuning Silver Star fuse as it will give you a bit more snap/ prat.

I'm using the SR Galileo MCP just on the Powercell 10SE and no where else as I've found it sounding a bit too laid back on the Precision AC cable for the Powercell and other SR cables. What you will get from the 10-SE is a bigger sound stage is the 1st thing you'll notice and everything else improves.... do use up all the 10 sockets as the more you use from the 10SE, the better it sounds. I have my AV, all of my two channel system plugged to it without any current limitation.

Do try the Mig's as they will knock your socks off.
I'm also using a set of SR ART system as well as a extra set of SR ART Basik.

Hope this helps and you can E-mail me for more info. :)

Sabai, I've forgotten to say I'm using the Tara Labs Zero Gold XLR interconnects from CD player to pre. Tried the SR Universal Galileo for ineterconnecst and speakers and found them did something better but not everywhere so stuck with my own stand alone cables. I guess they are great IF your system/ cables need them but in my system and my personal opinion, it was only a side step kind of improvement.

Cheers.

I have done most of the changes done above (iec, power cord) but also have the EMM on 4 stillpoints which itself rests on a wood plinth on 4 small springs which rests on my rack. That was a nice improvement.

Flashunlock, thanks again. I had a look at the back of my EMM. No external fuse. It looks like I'll have to open up the box to make the fuse change. I'm still looking for the green Furutech fuse on the Internet. And thanks for all the information about SR cabling. Same as you -- I also will only have the SR PowerCell 10SE plus the Galileo MPC in my system. This is the first time I have read about the sound being a bit too laid back with SR cables. This is very important information because of the universally positive reports about SR cabling -- and all the sales promotion. I know the people at SR (by phone) and they are very helpful. No complaints about SR. They may not know about this sonic effect with the EMM. After all, they can't know about the synergy of their cables with every system in musicland and all the possible permutations. Knowing this about SR cabling with the EMM is very important information for me because I can't audition anything. I live overseas and have been guided only by sonic intuition in all my purchases which I either bring from abroad or have shipped over. So far so good -- like Steely Dan. I have mostly Gabriel Gold cables throughout my system -- not laid back at all -- dynamic, warm and resolving all at the same time, excellent all round, amazing cabling -- as well as an SR Master Coupler with Oyaide terminations for my 100-volt Marantz PM-15 that has to be plugged into a step-down transformer. The latter is nicely cleaned with the rest of my system because everything (except my REL subwoofer) is plugged into a Tesla Plex. I am also using Schumann resonance devices. I'll be getting my PowerCell next month. It will be the cornerstone of my system. I can't wait to hear it.